Here's how it works in the fightin' progressive liberal anti-war Democratic majority in Congress: if you speak the actual truth about George W. Bush's murderous war crime in Iraq, you get slapped down.
Pelosi issued a statement Friday evening rapping [Democrat Representative Pete] Stark, who is in his 18th term representing the liberal East Bay. He's California's longest-serving House members...
After numerous Republicans called on him to apologize, Stark said it was they who should be apologizing, for failing to provide the votes to override Bush's veto.
Stark told the absolute truth about Bush;
as Buzzflash and others
noted, Bush has quite literally turned the war into a matter of mirth,
particularly in the infamous "comedy" bit at the White House
Correspondent's Dinner, when he hilariously pretended to hunt for
Iraq's weapons of mass destruction -- the ostensible reason he had sent
thousands of Americans and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis to their
deaths -- behind the curtains and under the sofa in the Oval Office.
Not even Hitler or Stalin ever turned war into such a macabre public
joke. But Bush did, in front of the national press -- whose high
mandarins roared with laughter at the sickening display.
So are we straight now on the situation, on the reality of the system, on what's really going on? If not, let's recap:
• George W. Bush is a raging sociopath who has perpetrated mass murder and revels in it.
• The Democratic leadership says we shouldn't tell the truth about George W. Bush and the mass murder in Iraq.
• The national media think the whole mass-murdering bloodbath is one big joke.
• The Republicans say the only thing wrong with George W. Bush is that he hasn't perpetrated enough mass murder.
• These are the people and factions and institutions in command of the government, the military, and the national debate.
Still
think working within this utterly corrupt closed-loop of a system will
produce meaningful change? Well, good luck to you then. We'll see you
one day down by the river -- when you're trying to wash the blood from
your hands.
[This is what he said: "They sure don't care about finding $200
billion to fight the illegal war in Iraq. Where ya gonna get that
money? You going to tell us lies like you're telling us today? Is
that how you're going to fund the war? You don't have money to fund the
war or children. But you're going to spend it to blow up innocent
people if we can get enough kids to grow old enough for you to send to
Iraq to get their heads blown off for the President's amusement...But
President Bush's statements about children's health shouldn't be taken
any more seriously than his lies about the war in Iraq. The truth is
that Bush just likes to blow things up. In Iraq, in the United States
and in Congress."]
Pelosi Rebukes Stark for Iraq Comments
