Republicans are in manufacturing yet another Shitstorm (TM) over Pete Stark's remarks:

"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."

Republicans aren't talking about the money - unlimited funds to cause destruction in Iraq but none for our children here at home - but rather about the accusation that Bush is amused by the Iraq disaster.

But guess what - he is! This is Bush on March 24, 2004 - one year and five days after the invasion, when 589 American soldiers had been killed looking for the WMD's he cited as the main reason we had to invade Iraq.

So why was there no Shitstorm (TM) over this appalling "performance"? Because the audience was the very Corporate Media Elite (Radio and TV Correspondents) who create Shitstorms (TM)!

The only person in all of Washington who objected at the time was David Corn of The Nation. That can't be said of either Holy Joe Lieberman or Nanny Nancy Pelosi, both of whom were caught laughing with Bush.

So maybe Pete Stark didn't go far enough - are kids getting their heads blown off for the amusement not just of Bush, but also the entire Corporate Media and all of Congress too?

It's time for Washington to stop condemning those of us (including Pete Stark and Moveon) who have opposed this disastrous and murderous war from the beginning - and time for all of us to condemn Washington.