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Vonnegut on the USA in 2005 / 2006

DateThursday, April 12, 2007 at 4:15AM

Via the Guardian's obituary today ...

Custodians of chaos


In this exclusive extract from his forthcoming memoirs, Kurt Vonnegut is horrified by the hypocrisy in contemporary US politics



But 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 instead is that it was taken over by means of the sleaziest, low-comedy, Keystone Cops-style coup d'

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