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					Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight
					
				 Umm, I wouldn't be so quick to assume that he's "probably gonna kick it" so soon.  It's pretty much standard practice for a leader to go through the motions of transferring power to whoever is #2 if they're going for surgery (didn't Clinton do it?  Or was it Bush Sr.?). | 
	
 Of course I am aware of that.  The reports are simply that his health problems are getting more severe.  Intestinal bleeding in a man who turns 80 in less than two weeks is not a good sign I'm sure, though I am no doctor.  And I would also suppose that any news as to his condition coming out of Cuba would be well watered down.