[Atlantic Friend]

"Also, why do you not assume The "Russian" side poisoned Yushchenko?"

Because they had the most to gain from it, and because they also rigged the precedent election (something Mr Lind acknowledges), so it's not as if we're talking about nice guys here.

"The type of poison used makes it more likely the plotters wanted the man to be alive and martyred and too sock to rule and thus leaving somene else in charge, a likely scenario."

A possible scenario, yes. A likely scenario, no, because Occam's razor gets in the way.

[Iris7]

The KGB used poisons by choice. Very expert. The very pure dioxin used on Yuschenko has a very wide non-fatal dose range, with one well publicized living case having ten times Yuschenko's dose. (The dose given Yuschenko was about a gram, took five minutes to calculate that with only an amateur's understanding of digestive processes.) So either the poisoners did not intend for Yuschenko to die, preferring him to be a disfigured political martyr, or, they had no knowledge whatever about the poison they were using, hadn't even done a google search.

Occam's razor plays no favorites.

[A. Pole]

Occam's razor gets in the way.

Th modern version "Occam's razor" is "whatever demonizes the oponent better". So the genocide in Kosovo must be true for example and Milosevic is guilty even if the proofs cannot be found.

[Destro]

The Russians had the most to lose by poisoning him. I think those that stood to gain are Yushch's oligarch backers who gained a visible martyr with a poison which does not kill but disfigures and makes him too sick to run his country directly leaving others to do the job for him.