"I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it."
---Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Why, of course, the people don't want war. Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece. Naturally, the common people don't want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country."
---Herman Goering at the Nuremberg trials
I began this collection during the 2002 runup to the War in Iraq because I was sick and tired of hearing draft dodgers and cowards like George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, et.al. rushing the nation into an idiotic war by implying that they had more courage than all of the people who wanted to fight terrorism by fighting actual terrorists.Bush's "cut and run" strategy was, and still is, an embarrassment to our nation, but the attempt to paint his detractors as the ones who were doing the running was simply disgusting.
Throughout history, starting a war has always been regarded as the supreme act of cowardice and it's time we stood up and stopped treating Bush like he had any more character than a 3rd grade bully. War is for pussies. Period.
---Jeff Goode
Most of the scripts in this collection were originally developed and performed by the author at No Shame Theatre in Los Angeles.
| "I don't see suicide bombers. I see people with the freedom to go out and buy guns and bombs and blow themselves up on a street corner that never could have done that under Saddam." |