“I have wanted to give Iraq a lesson in democracy ’cause we’re experienced with it. In democracy, 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. And at the beginning of democracy is… quite a bit genocide and ethnic cleansing. It’s quite OK. And that’s what’s going on now.”
– Kurt Vonnegut, Appearance on The Daily Show (September 2005)