[NormsRevenge]

A man walks on a street of Little Havana in Miami January 16, 2007. The latest rumour whispered on the crumbling streets of Havana is that ailing leader Fidel Castro cannot appear in public because he lost his hair - and his famous beard - to chemotherapy for cancer. Cubans searching for reasons for the almost six-month public absence of the 80-year-old revolutionary can only speculate about what's wrong with him, for lack of official word. They do not know what he has or even where he is being treated. REUTERS/Carlos Barria (UNITED STATES)

[onyx]

Whatever, right?

[Enterprise]

Well, tough sh!t.

[Grizzled Bear]

A Cuban diplomat in Madrid said Tuesday that the newspaper's report was "an invented story."

"It's another lie and we are not going to talk about it. If anyone has to talk about Castro's illness, it's Havana," said the diplomat, who spoke on condition of anonymity in line with normal diplomatic practice.
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I'm so very glad to see Baghdad Bob found work and is doing alright. I was beginning to get concerned!

[NormsRevenge]

article also is out there as

Spain paper: Castro made surgery choices

[SevenofNine]

OMG this too funny ROFL that going be weird if picture leak out with beardless castro

[DB]

I hope it hurts.

[NormsRevenge]

Spanish surgeon Jose Luis Garcia Sabrido, left, walks back towards the Gregorio Maranon Hospital in Madrid, Wednesday, Jan 17, 2007, after taking a break. The Spanish newspaper El Pais reported Tuesday that Cuban leader Fidel Castro is in grave condition after three failed operations, citing two unidentified sources from the Gregorio Maranon hospital that employs surgeon Jose Luis Garcia Sabrido, who flew to Cuba in December to treat the 80-year-old Castro. (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza)

[Petronski]

He was afraid people wouldn't be able to tell the difference between him and the colostomy bag.

[Graybeard58]

In standard colostomies, patients are dependent on such bags for approximately six weeks.

9 months for me.

[Minutemen]

Re: Castro's surgery decision:
A man who is his own doctor has a fool for a patient.

[Old Seadog]

Castro doesn't need a colostomy. He already has a second rectum. It's called his mouth.

[SoldierDad]

Sounds painful! Please tell me it is!!!

[Valin]

Sounds like a bunch of sh*t

[Dallas59]

[hatfieldmccoy]

Folks, this murdering punk, rat bastard Hero of the Left, San Fransico's favorite adopted son ain't gonna leave quietly even if it kills him which so far it has not. Hey Castro, Satan has more time to wait than you do to live..cue the 60 minutes opening.tick tick tick tick tick pan to a closeup of a smug Satan and then cue the narrative "Tonight on 60 Minutes....

[Dallas59]

[snarks_when_bored]

The great Fidel Castro experiencing a profoundly painful slide towards death caused by his own feces infecting his abdominal cavity and anus...this horrible end couldn't happen to a more deserving guy, and it must give some satisfaction to those Cubans and Cuban exiles who managed to avoid being murdered by him during his reign of terror. Perhaps, after all, there is a small amount of justice in this world.

[Musket]

The Left is always telling us how great health care is in Cuba. What the heck is he doing in Madrid?

[Bender2]

Re: After removing an inflamed piece of Castro's large intestine in an operation last year, the doctors connected the remainder directly to his rectum, rather than attaching a colostomy bag, El Pais said, quoting two medical sources at Madrid's Gregorio Maranon hospital. The operation failed when a suture burst.

Talk about stewing in your own juices...

How do you say... 'Oh Merde!' in Spanish?

[moonman]

"After removing an inflamed piece of Castro's large intestine in an operation last year, the doctors connected the remainder directly to his rectum, rather than attaching a colostomy bag"

Similar to exhaust manifold straight out through the tail pipe, bypassing the muffler. I bet his farts sound just as loud too!