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http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=zcUjAAAAIBAJ&sjid=GtEFAAAAIBAJ&pg=6477,654377&dq=vladimir-zhirinovsky&hl=en">Zhirinovsky says Clinton like Hitler

OREKHOVO ZUYEVO, Russia -- Calling America "our bloody adversary," ultranationalist presidential hopeful Vladimir Zhirinovsky powered into his final campaign dash Friday, hoping anti-Western tirades will carry him straight into the Kremlin.

Far behind in all polls, Zhirinovsky is hoping to duplicate his stunning feat in the last two Russian parliamentary elections of tripling his ratings in the final week of the campaign...

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.."We will drag (Clinton) out of there like Noriega," said the Liberal Democratic party leader, referring to former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega, whom US troops seized and brought to Miami on drug charges.

Boasting that he would bring Clinton from the United States to a remote peninsula where Stalin operated slave labor camps, Zhirinovsky said "I'll send my special forces there and send this scoundrel to Chukotka to do his jogging."....

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Zhirinovsky is well known for his boasts pertaining to other countries, having expressed a desire to reunite countries of the ex-Soviet "near abroad" with Russia to within the Russia's borders of 1900 (including Finland and Poland). He has advocated forcibly retaking Alaska from the United States (which would then become "a great place to put the Ukrainians"), turning Kazakhstan into "Russia's back yard", and provoking wars between the clans and the nations of the former Soviet Union and occupying what will remain of it when the wars are over.<17> Zhirinovsky, who encourages separatism within the Russian minority in the Baltic states,<8> endorsed the forcible re-occupation of these countries and said nuclear waste should be dumped there.<17><21>

Zhirinovsky hailed what he described as "the democratic process" in Iraq under Saddam Hussein, whom he supported strongly. The friendship dated at least until the first Persian Gulf War in 1991, during which time Zhirinovsky sent several armed volunteers from the "Falcons of Zhirinovsky" group to support the Iraqi president. Allegations have dogged Zhirinovsky closely since the fall of Baghdad that he personally profited from illicit oil sales as part of the Oil-for Food scandal, a charge investigated in 2005 by the Independent Inquiry Committee into the Oil-for-Food Programme (Volcker Commission) and the US Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (PSI).<22> He is also close to the Serbian nationalist leader and war crimes suspect Vojislav Šešelj.<17>

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Nuclear threats

In 1999, at the start of the Second Chechen War, Zhirinovsky, the ardent supporter of the first war in Chechnya in the mid-1990s, advocated hitting some Chechen villages with tactical nuclear weapons.<40> He has also advocated using nuclear weapons and naval blockade-imposed starvation in a case of Russia's war against Japan.<17> In 2008, during the resulting political row between the United Kingdom and Russia, he suggested dropping nuclear bombs over the Atlantic Ocean in an effort to flood Britain.<8> Among his early threats, Zhirinovsky claimed Russia possesses "Elipton," a weapon of mass destruction supposedly more powerful than nuclear weapons.<15>

Personal violence

Zhirinovsky also has a history of igniting personal violence in political contexts. In his notorious debate with Boris Nemtsov in 1995 a "juice fight" broke out.<41> In 2003, Zhirinovsky engaged in a fistfight after a television debate with Mikhail Delyagin.<42> In 2005, Zhirinovsky ignited a brawl in the parliament by spitting at a Rodina party legislator, Andrei Saveliyev.<43> In 2008, he has showed himself shooting a rifle at the targets representing his political rivals.<8> During the 2008 televised presidential debate, he threatened Nikolai Gotsa, the representative of Democratic Party of Russia candidate Andrei Bogdanov with violence, saying he's going to "smash his head" and ordering his bodyguard to "shoot that bastard over there in the corridor". Gotsa sued Zhirinovsky in civil court for 1 million rubles (approximately US$38,000) in damages and eventually received a judgment of 30,000 rubles (approximately US$1,150).<44>

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