Rattle wrote:

White House spokesman Tony Snow Monday confirmed former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is on a feeding tube as the result of a hunger strike.

When it comes to hunger strikes, I guess practice makes perfect..

Snow told the daily press briefing Saddam agreed to be put on a feeding tube but said he did not know whether the procedure was performed at the detention facility where Saddam is being held or whether the former Iraqi leader had been hospitalized.

[Insert Terri Schiavo joke here]

Ha! Maybe he thinks his people enjoyed starving all those years that he would give it a shot himself. I think part of this hunger strike that might fall flat is that no one cares if he lives or not. He should have stuck to Doritos.