Kurt Vonnegut wrote to the people of Iraq

“At the beginning of democracy,  a bit of genocide and ethnic cleansing is quite okay. After a hundred years, you have to let your slaves go. And, after a hundred and fifty years, you have to let your women vote..”

He signed it “Uncle Sam”

And if you have NO IDEA how brilliant he was…

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1 Response to Kurt Vonnegut wrote to the people of Iraq

  1. Petrea says:

    Thank you for this. I love love love Vonnegut. Miss him, too. I selfishly wished he’d live forever and write more books for me to read.

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