She's refused to go to the hospital and will give her speech this afternoon.
She's just trying for some sympathy and trying to look heroic.

And then Jaque Chirac was delivering a speech on the success of Iraqi voting all due to the "international community" when he suddenly began vomiting what appeared to be a white liquid that some have said, "smelled like rotting fish or semen". It was also noted that the representatives of Syria, Palestine, and Jordan were furiously scratching their pubic region as all this was going on.

Nothing is known at this time other than Chirac was headed off to a hospital in Paris that specializes in pumping stomachs and has had such stellar clientel as Elton John, George Michael, and Arafat.