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Comment 11/02/08; DVM
(Re: article: Holding on to Hope; by Michael Winerip;
NYT):

The Mom describes doctors saying to her over and over, I'm sorry, I'm so
sorry. Me too. That is the first thing I want to say: I'm so sorry.

Second:  Provide medical assistance to wounded soldiers. Spare no
expense.

Third:
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January 26, 2008  Commenting at the Washington Post:

The government has no business forging lasting military commitments that
will span years when it is so close to a federal election, when polls clearly
indicate that the majority of American citizens want out of Iraq. Most
Iraqis want America out of Iraq, too. This is a desperate attempt to keep
getting what you want, what you are not entitled to get, at the expense of
everybody else.
- publisher, mcloughlinpost.com
1/26/2008 10:39:02 PM
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January 25, 2008

A note from the Publisher on
Kucinich withdrawing his bid
for the Presidency:   

We mourn the continued wasting of democracy with the news that
nine-term Ohio Representative, Dennis Kucinich (D) has withdrawn his
bid for leadership of the American Democratic Party today.  Denied his
right to participate in the televised Democratic leadership debates by the
mainstream media, it was impossible for him to get his message out.   It is
a day of national shame.

Diane V. McLoughlin
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Opinion:

On Torture and Enemies Domestic:  Why do Politicians support torture?

by Diane V. McLoughlin; 05/02/08

The toughest wall to hoist yourself over is the possibility that 9/11 was blowback.  
You have to be willing to roll the problem over in your mind and contemplate the
possibilities.  That takes guts.  Intestinal fortitude it was called in another era.

Many gung-ho guys are big-hearted and don't like people getting hurt.  If their
leaders tell them that people - theirs or somebody else's somewhere else - are in
trouble, they want to step up and fight for right.

Problem is, how do you know you are being told the truth?  

The best answer to any question I have ever read in my life went like this.  In a
weekly news item, a few local religious leaders representing their respective faiths
would be given a question, and each would be given the space of a few
paragraphs to attempt to answer from their particular faith perspective...
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Comment:
                   You'n me Rothschild

by Diane V. McLoughlin; 23/02/08

There is no time for pointless diatribes or in-fighting. The world is in
peril. We urgently need resolution to the problems, with respectful
compromise, on many outstanding issues.

The iron vice of despotism is squeezing ever tighter by the day.
Geopolitical chess games risking perhaps everything, are emerging
from the shadows to our horrified eyes.

Gimme a Rothschild. We see recriminations in forums from time to
time against some bogeyman called Rothschild.  


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Editor wars

The McLoughlin Post socks it to The New York Times - BAM!

(And it feels sooo good)                     14/02/08        

Editorializing on the need for fair trials for six terrorist suspects
due to be tried by kangaroo military court at Guantanamo Bay,
Cuba, (
Unnecessary Harm; 13/02/08), the New York Times
opined, not that it would be a fundamental miscarriage of justice -
no -  but that it would alienate our partners in the world, and would
make any verdict "seem" unjust.  
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