Content warning: Blood and guts and stuff about an execution.
MY UROLOGIST CAPTURED SADDAM HUSSEIN
I’ll keep his name to myself. I don’t want to get into a jam with anyone in case this whole story is bogus or in case it is true and I misrepresent parts of it.
My urologist joined the Air Force Reserve and part of his duties was to spend time in Iraq during the Bush war. He was assigned a sort of MASH post in northern Iraq, pretty far from the action. The MASH unit was placed there in the event more fighting up north happened. The unit had not much to do so my urologist directed the doctors under his command to perform clinic services for the local populations in the area. The doctors would have rather been sleeping all day in the heat and doing other things but my urologist insisted they provide medical services to the population.
It payed off. Sometime later a few of the local elders came to the MASH unit and declare they knew where Saddam Hussein was hiding. In fact, they declared, he was hiding nearby in a hole in the ground in someone’s front yard. Maybe they were grateful for the free vaccines and other stuff. My urologist informed some security troops who went to the location identified by the local elders and lo and behold there was the rascal Saddam Hussein crouched in the bottom of a hole under a wooden cover. He had been hiding there for some time and probably needed a break. The only break he got was his neck. In fact it has been reported that his head popped off when he dropped through the trap door during his hanging. He gained too much weight or they dropped him too far. At any rate that is the story.
I asked my urologist about this when I saw him a few years later and he said yes this is what happened.
There you have it.
G. M. Goodwin
20 June 2016
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