Y'shenko's disfigurement by this dioxin poisoning simply shows how far people who hold power will go to hold that power. This man has been poisoned with a cancer causing agent. For the moment he may live, but what does he future hold now?

The irony that the Ukranians are expressing outrage over a stolen eleciton and that Bush is supporting their cries of outrage really disturbs me. The unsettling idea that Bush stole the U.S. election has been brewing behind the scenes since Nov. 4th. That he adds this hypocrisy to his numerous sins really abhors me.

The Blackwells and Katherine Harrises of this world who would make a fellowship with this man to usurp the power the U.S. holds in this world, a special place in hell needs to be reserved for them.

What I don't understand is if this is as wide-spread as we believe, why can't it be proven?

Bush is only crying foul because the man he wanted to win is being challenged and the election had U.S. money involved.

U.S. Money Helped Opposition in Ukraine

I smell a rat.

Do you suppose Bush funneled all that money in, and expressed all that public support, so as to disguise his own election theft back home?

'Bina.

Why would you use a dioxin to poison someone? Doesn't make sense. The KGB has assassinated people with ricin and (I believe) VX before. The wet-work boys know these work. So do cyanide and a few other tried-and-true choices.

Or, they could choose something new and exciting. Something that is rapidly broken down by the body and wouldn't show up in a toxicology screening.

Dioxins are neither of those. They are "persistant bioaccumulative" chemicals -- exactly the opposite of a fast-acting, rapidly disappearing compound. It's not going anywhere.

The only possible advantage is that it might not show symptoms immediately, allowing the poisoner time to hide his tracks (or leave the country). I don't think there's much publicly available data about the acute toxicity of dioxins. Of course, chemical weapons researchers probably know more but aren't talking.

Also, the target is still alive. Now, who comes to mind when you think of botched assassinations?

Uh...Fidel Castro?

Seriously: I think they may have merely hoped to disable/disfigure him so that the other side would somehow be repulsed into not electing him. And in any case, dioxin poisoning has lasting effects. He might become too incapacitated over time to govern; that would throw the country into turmoil and give the Russian-backed oligarchs another seductive excuse to promise "stability" in the form of dictatorship. A more perfect form of sneak-thievery I find hard to imagine.

'Bina.

it occurs to me that yeltsin had a similar appearance, he started looking funky too- then everybody said he was an alcoholic... remember?

not saying he was poisoned, just noticing the similarities in the tactic utilized by the opposition (he's crazy, he's an alcoholic, he's unstable...)


-t-

'Bina.

The W stands for Whattamaroon!

'Bina.

AP Article

Egads!

So...this all begs the questions:

Since this was a single chemical, not a mix, we can safely say it's not from consuming polluted fish. Where did it come from, then?

And since this chemical is not commercially produced, it had to have been the product of a secret lab. Whose?

And finally: Who slipped the mickey in Yushchenko's drink?

'Bina.