Friday August 20, 2004

Vonnegut on Bush

At age 81, Kurt Vonnegut claims to have only two allies left: librarians and In These Times. In the latter, the author reflects on “this humiliating, shameful blood-soaked year” in which Americans present themselves “to the rest of the world as proud, grinning, jut-jawed, pitiless war lovers.”

BTW, more than half of Americans still believe Iraq had WMD. A third believe there were close ties between Saddam and al-Qaida. 15 percent think Iraq was directly involved in 9/11, despite the 9/11 Commission’s report to the contrary. I wonder why.

(via Bookslut.)