Is Putin Being Set Up?

humanevents.com ^ | by Patrick J. Buchanan

[BeHoldAPaleHorse]

http://strata-sphere.com/blog/

Interesting material at this link.

[GarySpFc]

There is another thread on Free Republic reporting Litvinenko converted to Islam 2 months ago. That would make suicide very plausible.

[Risha]

Two questions.

1.Who is out to kill Putin?

2. Will Putin step down at the end of his term?

[GSlob]

Borat. With the help from the pernicious bicyclists, numismatists and philatelists as accomplices.

[dighton]

I'm surprised he didn't blame the JOOOOOOS.

Does this count for partial credit?

Indeed, no sooner had Litvinenko expired than his collaborator in anti-Putin politics, Alex Goldfarb, was in front of the television cameras reading Litvinenko's deathbed statement charging Putin with murder.

[nickcarraway]

Certainly not Putin. Litvinenko's death puts him, the Kremlin and the KGB, now the FSB, under suspicion of having reverted to the terror tactics of Stalin, who commissioned killers to liquidate enemies like Leon Trotsky, murdered in Mexico in 1940.

By this logic, Stalin didn't do these things. Since he was the obvious "suspect," he had no reason to. Right, Pat?

[Dog Gone]

Hmmmmm, suspiciously JOOOOOOOish.....


Horseshoes, hand grenades, and Buchanan columns... I'll take it.

[Doc91678]

Sure he's being set up. First he poisoned the president of the Ukraine, then he killed the newspaper journalist, now he poisoned and killed a fellow former KGB agent. If you belive he didn't do it, I have some beach front property for sale in Arizona.

[Doc Savage]

Let's hope so!

[Alter Kaker]

Buchanan is just defending Putin so people can't say that all Buchanan does is defend Nazis. Sometimes he defends ex-KGB Communists too.

[Brilliant]

Buchanan has lost his mind (sometime back). Why, for example, would the London based dissidents kill him, as Putin claims? Kill their own number one dissident, just to embarrass Putin? Not very likely.

[sissyjane]

I'm sorry, but suicide by radiation poisoning? There have to be easier ways. I don't believe this clap-trap from Buchanan at all.

[WestVirginiaRebel]

Putin is being framed by the Cigarette Smoking Man!

[arthurus]

Too clever by half, as the saying goes. Putin gets the benefit if his intention is a warning to enemies. He probably does not hate it that people in other countries do not approve. Putin knows that he does not need the approval of foreigners.

[jimbo123]

Buchanan has never met a vertically-challenged tyrant he didn't like.

[Bon mots]

Oh please! Too many have been poisoned and killed.

Not only that, but the poison used on this latest victim is only available to those with the resources of a State.

[LdSentinal]

So, which Jew did it Pat?

[jdm]

That would make suicide very plausible.

I don't know.

1) No one would want a suicide that takes three weeks to complete

2) Most folks wouldn't go to the trouble of killing themselves with a substance so sophisticated

[atomicpossum]

Sounds like the OJ defense. He's the obvious suspect, so it couldn't be him...

[A. Pole]

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