Gore Vidal Walks and Talks to His Own Beat

Gore Vidal Walks and Talks to His Own Beat: "President Bush will be forced to resign or be driven from office. 'I can't believe the speed with which the entire republic fell apart. The U.S. Bill of Rights fell apart with Attorney General John Ashcroft and the Patriot Act,' he said of post-9/11 America.
'Preventive war became our national policy, which has not been any nation's policy since Hitler. A preventive war is about as un-American as you get. But that doesn't mean we haven't done it before,' he said.
'The worst (previous) example was the Mexican War. That brave moralist, Ulysses S. Grant, who had been a second lieutenant just out of West Point, hated that war and said ... that nations like individuals suffer for their transgressions.
'I believe the Civil War was the judgment of God on us for what we did to Mexico. God knows what we are going to get for Iraq.' "