another example

of how we are bringing OUR democracy to iraq

Two children die as Iraqi poison plot recalls Saddam's assassination method of choice
Michael Howard in Baghdad Saturday February 9, 2008The Guardian
Iraqi authorities are investigating a case of poisoning at a Baghdad sports club popular with the army in which two children have died and nine people have been taken to hospital. All were reported to have eaten cakes laced with thallium, the toxin that was often used by Saddam's secret police to kill political opponents.
Security officials said it was the first known incident of deliberate thallium poisoning since the fall of the regime.
Police said they had traced the two cakes to a bakery in Baghdad's Adhamiya district. This Sunni Arab stronghold was a bastion for supporters of the late dictator, and more recently a major locus of activity for Sunni extremists..........

i hope it was stoli

man, i never heard of such a thing. an intravenous pumping an equivalent of 3 drinks an hour for THREE DAYS. dang!
(guess they didn't have any grappa)
Doctors save poisoned tourist using vodka drip
With treatment, Italian visitor made successful recovery in Australia
BRISBANE, Australia - Australian doctors said they plugged a poisoned Italian tourist into a vodka drip after running out of the medicinal alcohol they would normally have used to save his life.
The 24-year-old Italian, who was not further identified, was diagnosed as having ingested a large quantity of ethylene glycol, a common ingredient in antifreeze that can cause renal failure.
Pure alcohol is often given in treating such cases because it can inhibit the toxic effects of ethylene glycol..........