STARK REALITY

The wingnuts are upset about Rep. Pete Stark's remarks but that's just a diversion from the real issues: (1) children without health care and (2) the failure in Iraq. As further evidence of (2), here's this recent report:

Ex-top envoy calls Iraqi government a failure
Former ambassador says country ‘falling apart,’ blames ministers, U.S.
By Aram Roston
Investigative producer
NBC News Investigative Unit
Updated: 11:46 a.m. MT Oct 19, 2007

WASHINGTON - A principal architect of Iraq’s interim constitution, who resigned in August as one of the country’s top diplomats, has laid out a devastating critique of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and the U.S. occupation, telling NBC News that, functionally, “there is no Iraqi government.”

The diplomat, Feisal Amin Istrabadi, said in his first interview since stepping down as Iraq’s deputy ambassador to the United Nations that “this government has got to go.” When he resigned, Istrabadi, an U.S.-born lawyer who lobbied for the U.S. invasion and was the principal legal drafter of Iraq’s interim constitution

The Iraqi government is an illusion, said Istrabadi, who is now a visiting professor at the Indiana University Law School. “You’ve got patently incompetent men appointed to important positions.”

“Fundamentally, you have the Iraq state falling apart and an inability on the part of the political class to put it back together,” he said.

[NOTE: WAR WHORE SEN. LINDSEY GRAHAM SAID 5 WEEKS AGO THAT THERE WOULD BE A BREAKTHROUGH IN A MATTER OF WEEKS]
I ♥ Stephanie Miller and she appeared on Hardball to discuss Rep. Stark. She thinks that Stark went a little over the top and that was bad because it distracts us from the real issues. OTOH, this online poll at CNN reveals that many don't want Stark to apologize:

Quick Vote

Congressman Pete Stark accused Republicans of sending troops to Iraq to "get their heads blown off for the president's amusement." Should he apologize?

Yes	8%	718
No	92%	7914
Total Votes: 8632

This is not a scientific poll

This AM, I listened to her show and almost all of the callers supported Stark and disagreed with Steph that his remark was over the top. Let's not forget that Bush did amuse himself and the Beltway Media Elite with a "joke" about not finding WMD. (Crooks and Liars has a video of this obscenity) Will there ever be an apology for that, not only from Bush but also from all those who laughed?