No kidding. As political tactics go, this is about one step above kidnapping your opponent's family.

But the silver lining is that at least it wasn't trioxin. Now THAT stuff is bad news.

CodeBlueBlog (http://codeblueblog.blogs.com/) is thinks it's Rosacea covered with makeup. My wife is in the skin care biz and says it could be a severe case of acnaic(sp?) Rosacea.

As someone with experience in the skin-care industry, I think I can say rosacea is very unlikely to be the explanation. Rosacea does not occur that quickly, does not affect your skin quite that horribly, and certainly does not make your eye droop. The degree of mottling he exhibits now could not have been previously covered without huge amounts of makeup, which itself would have been noticeable.

I'd say 10:1 he was poisoned by something exotic and untraceable.

Here is the most seriously fucked-up before/after picture I have seen outside of a Kurdish village.

http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/11/25/yushchenko.ailment.ap/

Something very bad happened to him.

I don't want to mess with anyone in the skin-care industry; however, rosacea can come on in a torrent, be explosively disfiguring, and no one says it is making his eye droop.

If you say 10:1 he was poisoned by something exotic, I'm willing to bet you $20,000.00 -- given those odds -- that you are wrong.

First, NOBODY poisons ANYBODY anymore -- what is this Napoleanic France? Did you ever see the Sopranos poison anyone? No. Why not? Becuase it's much easier, more reliable and more effective to drop a piano on someone's head, or shoot him in the ear, or pack him in a crate with frozen chickens and chop him up for mulch...but poisoning? And if you were a secret agent for WHATEVER spy frat, wouldn't you use a poison that KILLED the victim? Or were they purposely trying to create the corrugated potato-head look just so he'd lose the election on his ruined telegenicity?

Vikto Yushchenko drank too much vodka. This gave him pancreatitis. Alcohol (even one drink) can create a cataclysmic outbreak of rosacea; and, in this disabled state he contracted a virus which left him with a Bells Palsy.

But don't take my word for it. Read it at the sources:

http://codeblueblog.blogs.com/codeblueblog/2004/11/csi_medblogs_th_1.html

http://codeblueblog.blogs.com/codeblueblog/2004/12/csi_medblogs_na.html

http://codeblueblog.blogs.com/codeblueblog/2004/12/csi_medblogs_th.html

http://codeblueblog.blogs.com/codeblueblog/2004/12/csi_medblogs_me.html

They're all good.

And remember: don't drink the water...

CodeBlue:

Where's my $2000?

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1393172,00.html

As to why poison: Think about it. The goal is to kill/injure him without anyone knowing he was killed/injured. Dropping a piano on a guy might work for a skell in Brooklyn, but this is a major political figure. As posts like yours demonstrate, poisoning leaves a lot of doubts.

Dave...Dave...Dave...

But did it work? Did they kill him? And if they had, where do you think the Dioxin trail would have lead directly back to??

When a piano falls on your head it's a tragic accident.

When someone feeds you apocalyptic megapoisons (that stay in your tissues for MONTHS I might add) that's a plot.

So were they trying to let the world know that they are sleazy (incompetent) corrupt and perfidious hosts at Viktor's dinner that night?

Be careful with your money.

Blue... Blue... Blue...

I didn't say they were particularly competent poisoners, just that he was poisoned. Note that his opponents immediately claimed he had herpes.

When a piano falls on a major Ukrainian politcal figure's head, it's a major investigation that may lead to civil war.

Leaving aside your lurid adjectives ("apocalyptic megapoisons?" really, now), it's not that difficult to poison a public figure. And if you're surprised to see this in a former Soviet republic, you don't know your Cold War history.

Please be careful with my $2000.

I don't want to mess with anyone in the skin-care industry; however, rosacea can come on in a torrent, be explosively disfiguring, and no one says it is making his eye droop.

If you say 10:1 he was poisoned by something exotic, I'm willing to bet you $20,000.00 -- given those odds -- that you are wrong.

First, NOBODY poisons ANYBODY anymore -- what is this Napoleanic France? Did you ever see the Sopranos poison anyone? No. Why not? Becuase it's much easier, more reliable and more effective to drop a piano on someone's head, or shoot him in the ear, or pack him in a crate with frozen chickens and chop him up for mulch...but poisoning? And if you were a secret agent for WHATEVER spy frat, wouldn't you use a poison that KILLED the victim? Or were they purposely trying to create the corrugated potato-head look just so he'd lose the election on his ruined telegenicity?

Vikto Yushchenko drank too much vodka. This gave him pancreatitis. Alcohol (even one drink) can create a cataclysmic outbreak of rosacea; and, in this disabled state he contracted a virus which left him with a Bells Palsy.

But don't take my word for it. Read it at the sources:

http://codeblueblog.blogs.com/codeblueblog/2004/11/csi_medblogs_th_1.html

http://codeblueblog.blogs.com/codeblueblog/2004/12/csi_medblogs_na.html

http://codeblueblog.blogs.com/codeblueblog/2004/12/csi_medblogs_th.html

http://codeblueblog.blogs.com/codeblueblog/2004/12/csi_medblogs_me.html

They're all good.

And remember: don't drink the water...

Posted by CodeBlueBlogMD at December 6, 2004 09:57 PM

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Well, you win that one then. pay up fatso!

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