Just thought Id share the following: From Wikipedia article on Kurt Vonegut: With his columns for In These Times, he began an attack on the George W. Bush administration and the Iraq War. By saying that our leaders are power-drunk chimpanzees, am I in danger of wrecking the morale of our soldiers fighting and dying in the Middle East? he wrote. Their morale, like so many bodies, is already shot to pieces. They are being treated, as I never was, like toys a rich kid got for Christmas. In These Times quoted him as saying The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.[48][49] In a 2003 interview Vonnegut said, I myself feel that our country, for whose Constitution I fought in a just war, might as well have been invaded by Martians and body snatchers. Sometimes I wish it had been. What has happened, though, is that it has been taken over by means of the sleaziest, low-comedy, Keystone Cops-style coup detat imaginable. And those now in charge of the federal government are upper-crust C-students who know no history or geography, plus not-so-closeted white supremacists, aka Christians, and plus, most frighteningly, psychopathic personalities, or PPs.[50] When asked how he was doing at the start of a 2003 interview, he replied: Im mad about being old and Im mad about being American. Apart from that, OK.[51] Footnotes 48 & 49: Gordon, Scott. 15 Things Kurt Vonnegut Said Better Than Anyone Else Ever Has Or Will. The A.V. Club. Retrieved March 13, 2010. Vonnegut, Kurt (May 10, 2004). Cold Turkey. In these Times. Retrieved April 12, 2007. Footnote 50: Kurtzman, Daniel. The Political Wisdom of Kurt Vonnegut. About Footnore 51: Jump up to: a b Hoppe, David. Aggressively Unconventional: An Interview with Kurt Vonnegut, Utne Reader. May/June 2003.
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