Re: OT: Kurt Vonnegut, RIP

"Wayne Reimer" <wrdslremovethis¿@pacbell.net> wrote in message
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I don't think I was a sudden drop-in to the group at the time, nor
could I be seen as someone who only makes posts designed to create
disturbance and nothing else, one or the other of which is usually part
of the troll definition as I understand it. (And, incidentally, it is
a definition into which your post above might fit.)

Questions of trolling aside and whether or not whatever I said that was
so memorable for you was ill-advised, I cannot for the life of me make
the connection between pissant little disparaging remarks about the
quality of a popular writer at the time of his death, and comments of
any sort on the death of a highly polarizing president of the country
of which I'm a citizen, and who, in case you need to be reminded, was
seen by many as irresponsibly and needlessly causing the deaths of many
other humans, both through direct action and through inaction.
Somehow, an elected official acting in my name in ways I think are
reprehensible isn't exactly the same sort of category as being a
writer.
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I'm not much of a Reagan fan myself. Remember,
without Reagan, we would not have ever had Bush
I and certainly not Bush II.

Reagan had the brains to get the hell out of Lebanon.
And though he bungled the AIDS crisis badly in
the early '80s, he did not exploit homophobia
and hatred the way Bush does. GWB started his
political career at the feet of the infamous and
ruthless Lee Atwater (who apologized on his
deathbed for his cutthroat methods).

And yes, this war in Iraq was in fact started
for domestic political purposes--to win re-election
in 2004.

On MSNBC's "Countdown", Newsweek's
Richard Wolfe was asked why Colin Powell
had not been asked to be the new "War Czar".
The answer: "Colin Powell would be the right
choice if the plan was to withdraw our troops
immediately".



Has anyone posted Vonnegut's concise remarks
about this insane war we are in now?



Here's a link(s) to a short interview where the remarks
are included:

http://tinyurl.com/ywvfo

http://preview.tinyurl.com/ywvfo

http://www.inthesetimes.com/comments.php?id=38_0_4_0_C



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