A lot of Washington bigwigs need glasses! They don't even see what's going on. Hysterical laughter erupted at the Saturday night media roast when Laura Bush celebrated the media get together by cracking jokes about George going to bed at 9.

Laura Bush explained in effect that was why she and Lynne Cheney had to watch Desperate Housewives between trips to an entertainment establishment like Chippendale's, where men prance about nearly nude, with Mrs. Cheney and Condoleezza Rice. She even mentioned the most famous weed cutter of them all, Bush on Crawford ranch detail, and glibly mentioned the all-time worst U.S. movie horror epic, Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

Now the question must be asked: Has the White House resident gotten any counsel about raising Laura’s entertainment standards? The very weekend while the media bigwigs were launching into uproarious laugher over some of the truly tasteless humor, did it for one sober second dawn on any of them that U.S. service personnel were dying that very day in Iraq?

Saturday April 30 might be another day that can live in infamy. The April 30 edition of the Miami Herald published a datelined story from Baghdad. Thomas Wagner reported, “Attacks that included 17 bomb blasts in and near Baghdad on Friday killed at least 50 people, including 3 U.S. soldiers.”

The report revealed these attacks were coordinated and that 114 Iraqis were wounded in the process. The article, continued, “Many of the bombing targets were members of the Iraqi military and police whom insurgents accuse of collaborating with Americans.”

How ironic that the very same members of the media who laughed heartily at Laura Bush’s jokes had hastily used the unsubstantiated report of George Bush, “Weapons of Mass Destruction are a threat to the security of every American!” Without this media blitz based on lies the horrifying Iraq War might never have gotten off the ground.

On the very day certain members of the Washington elite were carrying on as if they had achieved wonders, Iraq was counting its war dead in the continuing almost daily death toll. The housewives of Iraq do not have the luxury of watching Desperate Housewives. They are occupied mourning the tragic deaths of their husbands and children created by the Iraqi War debacle based on media fiction orchestrated by the White House.