[jdm]

Russian president Vladimir Putin has expressed his anger at Britain's failure to gag Alexander Litvinenko in the final hours of his life, the cabinet has been told.

Hmmmmmmm...

[jdm]

ping

[WestVirginiaRebel]

Well gee, Pootie, what'd you expect Blair to do? What're you gonna do, poison Tony now?

[Moose4]

I guess he doesn't quite understand that that's not the way things work in a Western civilization, usually.

}:-)4

[Txsleuth]

Ping

[ladyjane]

O.J. was pissed off at the media too. Tough.

[Txsleuth]

I realize that there are theories that someone is trying to frame Putin...by getting Livinenko to think it was him...


But, still, the chilling part of this article is the part about how important Russia is to Britain...that they would seemingly rather look the other way...hmmmmm

[GSlob]

barbari sunt, barbarice egit. ef them.

[D.P.Roberts]

Poison is a coward's weapon. And now Putin's name is forever linked with it.

[ECM]

Putin’s aides see Litvinenko’s letter, in which he described the Russian president as “barbaric and ruthless”, as a carefully orchestrated public relations stunt, timed to coincide with the leader’s appearance at the Russia-European Union summit in Helsinki.

Well, duh: of course the guy poisoned himself with a very rare, 100% toxic substance merely so he could write a letter to make Putin look bad.

[Pontiac]

If I was Putin’s assassin I would be looking for a good hiding place about now.

Putin will want to cover his tracks so the assassin is a loose end needing tied up.

Putin can’t afford to take the chance of the assassin’s capture or defection.

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

The lady protests too much...

[snarks_when_bored]

Every tyrant appears untouchable until he falls...

[WoofDog123]

"Tony Blair concluded the cabinet meeting by saying “the most important issue” was likely to be Britain’s long-term relationship with Moscow. "

Realpolitik.

[hummingbird]

Putin Angry With Britain for Not Quieting Ex-Russian Spy on Deathbed

Well, I just bet he is. Maybe old KGB tactics are hard to break.

I've begun to consider that the soul President Bush saw when he looked into Putin's eyes was perhaps a chimera.

[Silly]

Vlad the Inhaler?

[2111USMC]

Next time Putie use a poison that works faster. Dead men tell no tales.

[Arizona Carolyn]

Another minister present said: “It caused some alarm that this case is obviously causing tension with the Russians. They are too important for us to fall out with them over this.”

So the Russians (Putin) can have people potentially assisinated on British (or our) soil and everyone is to look the other way because we can't have Putin angry at us????

[supremedoctrine]

The still-civilized nations of the West are made to worry way too much about "long-term relationships" with countries like Russia, China, Iran, Pakistan, etc. etc.
If we were smart we would divest everything of ours in those countries, and insist they do the same here. We don't need them. Why do we insist on fatally complicating our lives with ANY relationship with them? Let them start drinking their own oil, or finding out what else they can do with it. Leave them to their own devices politically, economically and militarily: in a space of 3-5 years they will find their way back to us, begging to be allowed to take up a new position somewhere near the bottom of the totem pole.

[budwiesest]

Never trust a Russian.

[Yossarian]

Putin’s aides see Litvinenko’s letter, in which he described the Russian president as “barbaric and ruthless”, as a carefully orchestrated public relations stunt, timed to coincide with the leader’s appearance at the Russia-European Union summit in Helsinki.

Yup - Litvinenko arranged the timing of his slow painful murder quite skillfully - that devious little bugger. Get his corpse a job in public relations! </sarcasm>