[xcamel]

...oh really.....

[Anti-Bubba182]

Blame the victim.

[mewzilla]

Murdered spy was a thief and a thug, Putin insists

I don't think you really wanna go there, Pootie-Poot.

[GSlob]

"...Rule # 1. Not a single word passing the lips of a kegebun can be trusted, and that includes the pauses the kegebun has to make to catch the breath or to swallow the saliva..."

[FormerACLUmember]

Putin is busy murdering critics of his kleptocracy. "Thief and thug" are projections of Putin's own criminality.

[kinoxi]

Everyone is being murdered because they are bad. I am good. Czar putin will insure your continued survival worthless masses.

[cripplecreek]

I doubt he was clean but that's a little like Baca calling Sanchez a whore.

[gcruse]

I used to think Putin was good for Russia. No longer.

[passionfruit]

This reminds me of the day we heard that Bonnie Lee Bakely had been killed. Robert Blake's friends were interviewed and all they could talk about was how evil she was, and pretty much said that she needed killing.

[pray4liberty]

Let the character assassination of the dead begin.

Putin knows, there is no talking back.

[Freedom_no_exceptions]

Litvinenko ... was dismissed from the Federal Security Service (FSB) “for beating people during detentions when he was a security service officer and for stealing explosives”. Mr Putin said: “He got a three-year suspended sentence and there was no need for him to flee...”

Dismissed for beating prisoners and stealing explosives??? This qualifies him as Putin's successor, not target. Damn, am I glad my parents and I left that land almost 27 years ago.

(Plus, I cannot imagine what a "suspended sentence" in former-Soviet Russia entails - my imagination only goes so far.)

[M. Espinola]

Putin's neo-Soviet dictatorship lays the grounds rules on bumping future enemies of the Kremlin's new order.

[Bigh4u2]

"Alexander Litvinenko, the former spy who was murdered in London, was a thug and a thief who had no need to flee to Britain because he was so insignificant, President Putin said yesterday."

If he was so 'insignifcant', then why was he killed? Hmmmmmmm??

[billorites]

"The Constitution bars him from seeking a third term."

Oh, we can help you with that!

[Spirochete]

Murdered spy was a thief and a thug, Putin insists

Trying to justify himself amounts to an admission.

[nmh]

Stopped here:

"Alexander Litvinenko, the former spy who was murdered in London, was a thug and a thief who had no need to flee to Britain because he was so insignificant, President Putin said yesterday."

If he was so "insignificant" as claimed, why the need to "flee"?

LOL!!

The guy spoke the truth.

[redgirlinabluestate]

Murdered spy was a thief and a thug, Putin insists

Takes one to know one.

[NicknamedBob]

"... saying Russia did not believe Washington’s claim that they were to counter threats from Iran or terrorists."

Okay. You caught us, Pooty.

They're really to counter threats from Russia. Satisfied?

[sgtbono2002]

There was no need for him to run.

We could have killed him here just as easily./

[LibKill]

I don't trust that Putin character any further than I could throw him.

[Fractal Trader]

fyi