I'm whistling as I walk past the graveyard... whistling as beautifully as I can"
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[Kurt] Vonnegut’s contempt for George Bush and his government is expressed with great force and clarity in A Man Without A Country, ... “the country is terribly at risk, because his [Bush] stupidities have terrible consequences, leading to deaths of many people, rotten schools, rotten healthcare. He should be protecting us not only from insurgents or terrorists but from disease and ignorance, and he’s not about to do either.
“Still, there’s not much difference. [Democratic candidate, John] Kerry said out of the side of his mouth at one point that he’s not for re-distributing wealth. He and George Bush belong to the same social class, went to the same university, belong to the same gentleman’s club. Can you believe that, in a country of 300 million people, we have to choose between two members of Skull & Bones [a secret society] at Yale?”
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"We [the USA] have no army. What makes us the most powerful nation on Earth is our willingness to kill people in their thousands with remote-controlled missiles, the fact that we're prepared to set off nuclear explosions in the middle of unarmed people -- men, women and children.
"Only one country has been crazy enough to set off a nuke in the middle of a civilian population. Did it twice, and that's when members of my generation, soldiers, could see that 'we're not the good guys any more'. We were very careful not to hurt civilians."
~Kurt Vonnegut: A requiem for the USA
(SundayHerald)
(Read the article. Read the book.)
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