Joe wrote:The problem I have with the poisoning theory is, why not kill him with a more potent poison if you're going to go through the ordeal rather than leave him alive?
Because he doesn't even have to die - and if he doesn't than people are not going to be able to stoke the outrage of poisoning like they could if he did. All he has to do is be sufficiently ill and disfigured to hurt his chances of election. All he needs to do is lose.
We all know how superficial the U.S. is, imagine how well a disfigured, diseased candidate would do against the vital, upbeat one. Even the most subtle subconscious influences work against the former.
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Things may get very interesting regarding this story shortly!:shock:
Who poisoned Yushchenko?
From Jeremy Page in Kiev
Doctors at the Austrian clinic that treated Ukraine’s opposition leader confirm there was a plot to kill him
MEDICAL experts have confirmed that Viktor Yushchenko, Ukraine’s opposition leader, was poisoned in an attempt on his life during election campaigning, the doctor who supervised his treatment at an Austrian clinic said yesterday.
Doctors at Vienna’s exclusive Rudolfinerhaus clinic are within days of identifying the substance that left Mr Yushchenko’s face disfigured with cysts and lesions, Nikolai Korpan told The Times in a telephone interview.
Specialists in Britain, the United States and France had helped to establish that it was a biological agent, a chemical agent or, most likely, a rare poison that struck him down in the run-up to the presidential election, he said. Doctors needed to examine Mr Yushchenko again at the clinic in Vienna to confirm their diagnosis but were in no doubt that the substance was administered deliberately, he said.
“This is no longer a question for discussion,” Dr Korpan said. “We are now sure that we can confirm which substance caused this illness. He received this substance from other people who had a specific aim.”
Asked if the aim had been to kill him, Dr Korpan said: “Yes, of course"...
But Dr Korpan said that toxicologists and other experts at laboratories in Britain, the US and France had since examined Mr Yushchenko’s blood samples and medical records. “We will reveal the results in the near future and confirm the cause of this mysterious illness,” he said. “We need to check him again here in Vienna. If we received him today, we could finish the whole investigation in two or three days.”
