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Nov 08Bears and balls.
Even Putin doesn’t want any part of W:
“I am going to hang Saakashvili by the balls,” Mr Putin declared.
Mr Sarkozy thought he had misheard. “Hang him?” — he asked. “Why not?” Mr Putin replied. “The Americans hanged Saddam Hussein.”
Mr Sarkozy, using the familiar tu, tried to reason with him: “Yes but do you want to end up like [President] Bush?” Mr Putin was briefly lost for words, then said: “Ah — you have scored a point there.”
Love it.
Vladimir Putin ‘wanted to hang Georgian President Saakashvili by the balls’ (Times Online, HT: Andrew Sullivan)