USA Today : Tearful Democrat apologizes for offending Bush, troops in Iraq

Tearful Democrat apologizes for offending Bush, troops in Iraq

October 23, 2007

Rep. Pete Stark, D-Calif., cried as he apologized today for a controversial speech in which he said Americans were getting their heads blown off in Iraq for the president's amusement.

“I want to apologize to my colleagues — many of whom I have offended — to the president and his family and to the troops,” Stark said on the House floor, according to The Hill.

"I hope that with this apology, I return to being as insignificant as I should be," he said, according to MSNBC.

A proposal that would have censured Stark for his earlier comments failed today when the House took it up on the floor.