Posted on 12/18/2004 1:06:55 PM PST by Destro
SPECULATION: Before the elections in the Ukraine, from my readings Yushchenko was seen as the pro-EU more so than the pro-American candidate. Yushchenko's party was against the Ukraine sending troops to Iraq (which the man many Freepers call a KGB thug, the current Prime Minister Yanukovich supported) and promised to WITHDRAW Ukrainian troops from Iraq (so he can be more in line with the EU policies).
So maybe Yushchenko was poisoned because some (maybe an agency which has been known to go rogue sometimes and has bungled assassinations in the past) feared Yushchenko would withdraw troops from Iraq like Spain did if his pOrange bloc won the elections? See below:
Ukraine's Supreme Court expected to rule on disputed presidential election; parliament votes to pull troops from Iraq
NATASHA LISOVA, Associated Press Writer
Friday, December 3, 2004
Ukraine's Supreme Court on Friday retired to rule on opposition candidate Viktor Yushchenko's appeal to cancel results of the disputed presidential election, and the parliament voted to pull the country's 1,600 troops out of Iraq.
The recall vote was another indication that President Leonid Kuchma, who ordered the troop deployment, was losing his grip on power amid opposition allegations that he had discredited himself by rushing to Moscow on Thursday for consultations with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Earlier in the year parliament voted against recalling troops, and earlier this week the body passed a no-confidence measure telling Kuchma to disband the government of Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych, his deputy. The recall vote was nonbinding but pressures Kuchma to act.
"Kuchma's meeting with Putin was humiliating for our society," said Mykhailo Melnichuk, a Socialist Party lawmaker.
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