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2006-11-28 Fifth Column
Pat Buchanan: Putin is being "set up" for the Litvinenko murder
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Posted by Mike 2006-11-28 06:48|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Pat, Pat, Pat.

Thirty years ago, even 20 years ago, you were a reasonably sane man. Maybe you should see a doctor.
Posted by Jackal">Jackal  2006-11-28 08:11|| http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html]">[http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html]  2006-11-28 08:11|| Front Page Top

#2 Buchanan knows what keeps him on the TV -- making conservatives sound insane.
Posted by Rob Crawford">Rob Crawford  2006-11-28 08:58|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/]  2006-11-28 08:58|| Front Page Top

#3 perfectly sound theory for MSNBC
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2006-11-28 09:42||   2006-11-28 09:42|| Front Page Top

#4 Jonah Goldberg, National Review:

Wow, that's a cowardly piece of writing. He rhetorically asks the cui bono question over and over again, to the point where it becomes tedious. The effect is deliberate because he clearly only has one answer in mind, but he's too afraid to say the words: Jews, Zionists, Neocons. This sort of game — common in certain paleo quarters — of "raising questions" without offering the answers they clearly have in mind is an attempt to seem brave without actually risking anything.

Oh, and Buchanan's conspiracy idea rests on the assumption that until this moment Putin has been some kind of Jeffersonian democrat, which is a bit hard to square with the public record. Why would Buchanan distort reality that way? Why? What does he have to benefit? What could motivate him? What demons does he have? Cui bono?
Posted by Mike 2006-11-28 10:05||   2006-11-28 10:05|| Front Page Top

#5 It's one I'd put more weight on than Putin did him in.

Look at his links to
a) Islam.
b) Chechens
c) Boris Berezovsky.

BorisB is Russian mafia.
Posted by Bright Pebbles in Blairistan 2006-11-28 10:19||   2006-11-28 10:19|| Front Page Top

#6 If it *was* a martyrdom op, it was very, very well done.

Are those unicorn hoofbeats in the distance?
Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious  2006-11-28 10:54||   2006-11-28 10:54|| Front Page Top

#7 Best suggestion of what happened I've heard was that the KGB screwed up the dosage and what should have dehabilitated him and killed him in a few years worked so quickly that it was very obvious.

Then again it is also likely the Russians just told the world that they'll kill you in a painful and visible way and there is jack you can do about it so shut your pie-holes.
Posted by rjschwarz 2006-11-28 12:18||   2006-11-28 12:18|| Front Page Top

#8 May Pat CAN explain why all those in favor of a democratic process are all laying in the ground, and Putin's 'boot lickers' are grazing on top of it!
Posted by smn 2006-11-28 14:58||   2006-11-28 14:58|| Front Page Top

#9 It's one I'd put more weight on than Putin did him in.

I've read suggestions by euro-pundits that it was more probably the russian kleptocracy (organized crime + big business + military/intelligence apparatus) the likeliest culprit, for private motives, rather than a straight gvt-backed assassination.
On the other hand, the botched poisoning which killed instead of debilitating is also a viable possiblity IMHO.
Posted by anonymous5089 2006-11-28 15:05||   2006-11-28 15:05|| Front Page Top

#10 Traces of radiation have been found at the offices of the billionaire Russian exile Boris Berezovsky and a security firm which employs the former commander of Britain's special forces.

Polonium 210, the rare radioactive element thought to have killed the former KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko, has been found at Mr Berezovsky's offices and those of the private security firm Erinys.




Posted by john 2006-11-28 17:49||   2006-11-28 17:49|| Front Page Top

#11 Polonium doesn't exactly grow on trees, you know. Wikipedia notes:

A very rare element in nature, polonium is found in uranium ores at about 100 micrograms per metric ton (1:1010). Its natural abundance is approximately 0.2% of the abundance of radium. Polonium has been found in tobacco smoke from tobacco leaves grown with phosphate fertilizers.

Synthesis by (n,g) reaction

In 1934 an experiment showed that when natural [Bismuth 209] is bombarded with neutrons, [Bismuth 210], which is the parent of polonium, was created. Polonium may now be made in milligram amounts in this procedure which uses high neutron fluxes found in nuclear reactors. Only about 100 grams is believed to be produced each year, making polonium exceedingly rare.
Posted by Mike 2006-11-28 18:43||   2006-11-28 18:43|| Front Page Top

#12 As evidence mounts that Pat Buchanan, Nativist and anti-Hispanic bigot, isolationist and economic nationalist, is losing his mind, consider the fact that he continues to pay this clown for his excremental contributions to Pat's rag of a magazine, The American Conservative.
Posted by Lancasters Over Dresden 2006-11-28 20:08|| http://www.michaelcalderonscall.com]">[http://www.michaelcalderonscall.com]  2006-11-28 20:08|| Front Page Top

#13 WOT > among other thingys, is now a WAR FOR GLOBAL MAFIA/ANARCHY STATE between West + East??? Maybe just me, but I fail to see what end-game advantage or benefit either the Western Mafias or Eastern/Oriental achieve by promoting a GLOBAL SOCIALIST/TOTALITARIAN STATE. $$$ = Wealth/Power? = requires Individ-Civil Freedom(s) = NOT COMPATIBLE vv TOTALITARIANISM/
ABSOLUTISM OR PERVASIVE, HYPER-REGULATORY GUBMINT???
Posted by JosephMendiola 2006-11-28 22:23||   2006-11-28 22:23|| Front Page Top

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