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There is no excuse for this happening in the richest country in the world.

Twelve-year-old Deamonte Driver died of a toothache Sunday.

A routine, $80 tooth extraction might have saved him.

If his mother had been insured.

If his family had not lost its Medicaid.

If Medicaid dentists weren’t so hard to find.

If his mother hadn’t been focused on getting a dentist for his brother, who had six rotted teeth.

By the time Deamonte’s own aching tooth got any attention, the bacteria from the abscess had spread to his brain, doctors said. After two operations and more than six weeks of hospital care, the Prince George’s County boy died.

McClatchy did a great job here. Pete and Heather are now fingered, and have a lot of explaining to do, this stuff is utterly against the rules and arguably illegal.

In court.

This is how things are run when a despot is the Commander in Chief of the United States military.

Read this. As always, I don’t agree with the contention that the media is Bad because We Want it That Way, but still it’s a great rant.

This post includes details from both the Wall Street Journal (which otherwise needs a subscription) and the New York Times. The dreaded EFPs found in this raid were being put together right on the spot in Iraq, and there was no sign of any Iranian parts being involved.

Washington Post and ABC News.

* 67 disapprove of the way Bush is handling Iraq.

* 67 percent oppose sending additional troops to Iraq.

* 66 percent support reducing U.S. military and financial support for the Iraqi government if the Iraqis fail to make progress toward national unity and restoring civil order.

* 64 don’t think the war with Iraq was worth fighting.

* 58 percent want Congress to limit the number of troops available for duty.

* 56 percent feel the U.S. should withdraw its military forces from Iraq in order to avoid further U.S. military casualties, even if that means civil order is not restored there.

And in an somewhat related finding:

* 63 percent feel they cannot trust the Bush administration to honestly and accurately report intelligence about possible threats from other countries.

Serious confusion reigns over what killed these boys this morning, because the US apparently also blew up a giant arms cache in the area.

UPDATE: BBC report has US military acknowleding that 8 boys were “hurt” in the US “controlled” explosion. This cover-up is not going to hold.

Major reversal it seems, in the Bushco screw-you policy towards these two countries and the recommendations of the Iraq Study Group.

AP