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	<title>Comments on: Late Nite FDL: The Truth About the &#8220;Iraqi Superbug&#8221; and the Military&#8217;s Role in Spreading It</title>
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		<title>By: squiddy</title>
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		<dc:creator>squiddy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jan 2007 22:03:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-469179&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;twolf1 @&lt;br /&gt;
                200              &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-469174&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;raven @&lt;br /&gt;
                195              &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;News flash&lt;/b&gt;, Santorum has gone to work for a think tank. That oughta start out your day with a laugh!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I also read somewhere that he may start his own bank.  Santorum Savings and Loan, Santorum Fidelity,  Santabank……..  the possibilities are endless.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;“Santorum Deposit Corp.”   oof!&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<blockquote><p><a href="#comment-469174"><em>raven @<br />
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<blockquote><p><b>News flash</b>, Santorum has gone to work for a think tank. That oughta start out your day with a laugh!</p>
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<p>I also read somewhere that he may start his own bank.  Santorum Savings and Loan, Santorum Fidelity,  Santabank……..  the possibilities are endless.</p>
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<p>“Santorum Deposit Corp.”   oof!</p>
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		<title>By: squiddy</title>
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		<dc:creator>squiddy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jan 2007 22:01:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-469123&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Wigwam @&lt;br /&gt;
                150              &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-469102&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;rwcole @ 129&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hey there Clusterfuck- jest wondering if ya know how much America despises yer sorry ass- course ya don’t care- but still ya oughta know- they hate yer fuckin guts you pig brained moron!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Stop sugar coating it and tell us how you really feel.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Oh, can you feel the love….&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="#comment-469123"><em>Wigwam @<br />
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<blockquote><p><a href="#comment-469102"><em>rwcole @ 129</em></a></p>
<blockquote><p>Hey there Clusterfuck- jest wondering if ya know how much America despises yer sorry ass- course ya don’t care- but still ya oughta know- they hate yer fuckin guts you pig brained moron!</p>
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<p>Stop sugar coating it and tell us how you really feel.</p>
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<p>Oh, can you feel the love….</p>
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		<title>By: murphy</title>
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		<dc:creator>murphy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jan 2007 18:09:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Printed out the Wired piece and read it last night. What a nightmare. And how many more like it will we discover long after Iraq is a dim and distant memory ?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We are killing ourselves, the other creatures and plants in a thousand ways we do not even suspect.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Printed out the Wired piece and read it last night. What a nightmare. And how many more like it will we discover long after Iraq is a dim and distant memory ?</p>
<p>We are killing ourselves, the other creatures and plants in a thousand ways we do not even suspect.</p>
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		<title>By: pal</title>
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		<dc:creator>pal</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jan 2007 17:50:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Watcha want to bet the depleted uraniuum from our rockets is the source..It 4 inchs thick, it causes cancer etc its bad stuff..&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Watcha want to bet the depleted uraniuum from our rockets is the source..It 4 inchs thick, it causes cancer etc its bad stuff..</p>
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		<title>By: Zoot</title>
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		<dc:creator>Zoot</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jan 2007 14:07:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;TRex - Thanks for picking up on this.  I saw it last night and was amused at the incompetence remembered from my long ago Army stint.  After the implications sank in, I was angered at still another injustice our children veterans are suffering at the bloody hands of the Bush Administration (may his name live in infamy forever).&lt;br /&gt;
Now I’m horrified:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;In many ways, the Bush Administration’s “War on Terror” has been able to accomplish things that the terrorists themselves could only dream of.  It has divided the American public against each other.  It has stretched our military so thin that we would be helpless in the face of a real national emergency.  And now, it has bred its own drug-resistant biological weapons, one of which is rapidly making its way through civilian hospitals from California to Canada, on to Germany and Anbar Province.  It’s called acinetobacter baumannii and the US military not only created the conditions that led to its development, but the Pentagon has played an active role in exporting it to the world and in the suppression of information that could have led to its containment.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;How many millions of people have been killed, maimed or sickened by the direct action of the murderous Bush cabal?  How long will &lt;b&gt;we&lt;/b&gt; let this fatal farce continue?&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>TRex &#8211; Thanks for picking up on this.  I saw it last night and was amused at the incompetence remembered from my long ago Army stint.  After the implications sank in, I was angered at still another injustice our children veterans are suffering at the bloody hands of the Bush Administration (may his name live in infamy forever).<br />
Now I’m horrified:</p>
<blockquote><p>In many ways, the Bush Administration’s “War on Terror” has been able to accomplish things that the terrorists themselves could only dream of.  It has divided the American public against each other.  It has stretched our military so thin that we would be helpless in the face of a real national emergency.  And now, it has bred its own drug-resistant biological weapons, one of which is rapidly making its way through civilian hospitals from California to Canada, on to Germany and Anbar Province.  It’s called acinetobacter baumannii and the US military not only created the conditions that led to its development, but the Pentagon has played an active role in exporting it to the world and in the suppression of information that could have led to its containment.</p>
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<p>How many millions of people have been killed, maimed or sickened by the direct action of the murderous Bush cabal?  How long will <b>we</b> let this fatal farce continue?</p>
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		<title>By: twolf1</title>
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		<dc:creator>twolf1</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jan 2007 14:02:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-469217&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Muzzy @&lt;br /&gt;
                209              &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Alright.  It’s 6am and I’m livid again.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It doesn’t take long with this administration, does it.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="#comment-469217"><em>Muzzy @<br />
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<blockquote><p>Alright.  It’s 6am and I’m livid again.</p>
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<p>It doesn’t take long with this administration, does it.</p>
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		<title>By: Muzzy</title>
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		<dc:creator>Muzzy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jan 2007 13:59:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;As the bacteria spread through hospitals in the US and Europe, the DOD worked overtime to keep a lid on the rumors. In a PowerPoint presentation about acinetobacter and pneumonia delivered at the US Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine, a slide labeled “How to handle the press” read: “Don’t lie. Don’t obfuscate. &lt;b&gt;Don’t tell them any more than you absolutely have to&lt;/b&gt;.” (emphasis mine)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You can’t blame the bugs for doing what they do to adapt, and you can’t minimize the scale of potentially deadly injury in a war.  The two things this Administration has influence over in this matter are starting/perpetuating a war and &lt;b&gt;properly and aggressively informing&lt;/b&gt; people in health care settings -both military and civilian -about what is going so that steps are taken to save lives.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Alright. It’s 6am and I’m livid again.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>As the bacteria spread through hospitals in the US and Europe, the DOD worked overtime to keep a lid on the rumors. In a PowerPoint presentation about acinetobacter and pneumonia delivered at the US Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine, a slide labeled “How to handle the press” read: “Don’t lie. Don’t obfuscate. <b>Don’t tell them any more than you absolutely have to</b>.” (emphasis mine)</i></p>
<p>You can’t blame the bugs for doing what they do to adapt, and you can’t minimize the scale of potentially deadly injury in a war.  The two things this Administration has influence over in this matter are starting/perpetuating a war and <b>properly and aggressively informing</b> people in health care settings -both military and civilian -about what is going so that steps are taken to save lives.</p>
<p>Alright. It’s 6am and I’m livid again.</p>
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		<title>By: edison</title>
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		<dc:creator>edison</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jan 2007 13:47:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;DO NOT USE ANTIBACTERIAL SOAP — the “triclosan” ingredient functions much like an antibiotic and teaches the little germies how to mutate. I heard a lengthy NPR report about this looming problem with “antibacterial” soaps several years ago. Regular soap as a surfactant works to lift germs from the skin — just suds up thoroughly, and just as importantly, RINSE thoroughly.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This stuff is everywhere … try buying dish soap that’s &lt;b&gt;not&lt;/b&gt; antibacterial. Here’s a link with more: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jhsph.edu/publichealthnews/press_releases/2005/halden_triclocarban_triclosan.html&quot;&gt;http://www.jhsph.edu/publichea.....losan.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Thank you, TRex&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>DO NOT USE ANTIBACTERIAL SOAP — the “triclosan” ingredient functions much like an antibiotic and teaches the little germies how to mutate. I heard a lengthy NPR report about this looming problem with “antibacterial” soaps several years ago. Regular soap as a surfactant works to lift germs from the skin — just suds up thoroughly, and just as importantly, RINSE thoroughly.</p>
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<p>This stuff is everywhere … try buying dish soap that’s <b>not</b> antibacterial. Here’s a link with more: <a href="http://www.jhsph.edu/publichealthnews/press_releases/2005/halden_triclocarban_triclosan.html">http://www.jhsph.edu/publichea&#8230;..losan.html</a></p>
<p>Thank you, TRex</p>
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		<title>By: cbl</title>
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		<dc:creator>cbl</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jan 2007 13:22:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Mornin’ Firepups,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;sweet dreams Mrs. K8,&lt;br /&gt;
recalled your bout with this - no wonder -&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Early this year an outbreak of MDR Acinetobacter Baumannii swept over Arizona, 236 cases in just two months. It was reported by the state disease monitoring systems, but ignored on the national level&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;this from a site found via The Google, they had linked the WIRED piece, but had also wrongly cited it’s origin as desert sands &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.acinetobacter.org/&quot;&gt;http://www.acinetobacter.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;do any of the regulars recall commenter Hopespringsaturtle  ???&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;her site:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://deepconfusion.blogspot.com/&quot;&gt;http://deepconfusion.blogspot.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;about 6 months back she was distressed over something going on Landstuhl where her husband (USAF Surgeon) was stationed - lots of phone calls back and forth - it was something she couldn’t talk about and her comments sounded like it was something he wasn’t supposed to &lt;em&gt;even tell her about&lt;/em&gt;.  In light of the Administration’s total shafting of those who serve and their families - it could have been a myriad of things, but now I wonder if this was it&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mornin’ Firepups,</p>
<p>sweet dreams Mrs. K8,<br />
recalled your bout with this &#8211; no wonder -
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<blockquote><p>Early this year an outbreak of MDR Acinetobacter Baumannii swept over Arizona, 236 cases in just two months. It was reported by the state disease monitoring systems, but ignored on the national level</p></blockquote>
<p>this from a site found via The Google, they had linked the WIRED piece, but had also wrongly cited it’s origin as desert sands </p>
<p><a href="http://www.acinetobacter.org/">http://www.acinetobacter.org/</a></p>
<p>do any of the regulars recall commenter Hopespringsaturtle  ???</p>
<p>her site:<br />
<a href="http://deepconfusion.blogspot.com/">http://deepconfusion.blogspot.com/</a></p>
<p>about 6 months back she was distressed over something going on Landstuhl where her husband (USAF Surgeon) was stationed &#8211; lots of phone calls back and forth &#8211; it was something she couldn’t talk about and her comments sounded like it was something he wasn’t supposed to <em>even tell her about</em>.  In light of the Administration’s total shafting of those who serve and their families &#8211; it could have been a myriad of things, but now I wonder if this was it</p>
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		<title>By: twolf1</title>
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		<dc:creator>twolf1</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jan 2007 13:17:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/01/22/opinion/polls/main2384943.shtml&quot;&gt;Poll: Bush Approval Rating At New Low&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;em&gt;On Eve Of State Of Union, President’s Approval Rating Falls To 28%, A New Low&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Mr. Bush’s overall approval rating has fallen to just 28 percent, a new low, while more than twice as many (64 percent) disapprove of the way he’s handling his job. &lt;/blockquote&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/01/22/opinion/polls/main2384943.shtml">Poll: Bush Approval Rating At New Low</a><br />
<em>On Eve Of State Of Union, President’s Approval Rating Falls To 28%, A New Low</em>
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<blockquote><p>Mr. Bush’s overall approval rating has fallen to just 28 percent, a new low, while more than twice as many (64 percent) disapprove of the way he’s handling his job. </p></blockquote>
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