Kurt Vonnegut : "They're adroit criminals"

Vonnegut's rail to the chief

Nobody needs to tell Kurt Vonnegut to stop beating around the Bush.
"They're adroit criminals," the 81-year-old literary lion labeled President Bush and his underlings while riding in a taxi with Lowdown's Hudson Morgan to Wednesday night's 27th anniversary party for In These Times, the paleoliberal magazine.

"They're committing war crimes - attacking a country that hasn't attacked us. Pretending it had. And torturing prisoners and filling countless graves with dead Iraqis. But adroit, sure. Al Capone was adroit."

The pop-culture icon added dismissively: "I don't care how Bush does, because I don't believe him. He believes himself, and that's what is quite terrifying."

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/gossip/story/190934p-165095c.html

Its an accurate description of bush and his junta.

"Slaughterhouse Five." It's incredible that he wasn't awarded the Nobel for it.

Still some of what's going on is his responsibility. He was a provider of Repuke-Nader propaganda in 2000. Even great minds stumble.

I never knew who Eugene Debs was until I read "Hocus Pocus" (the first Vonnegut book I read). The lead character is named Eugene Debs Hartke.

He's a brilliant writer, and a wonderful human being.