Salon's Bruce Springsteen interview by Jann Wenner no less

Here's an except about why he got involved in this election---- You can see the whole article on daypass

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As the Vote for Change concerts begin, Bruce Springsteen tells Rolling Stone why he had to take a stand this election year.


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By Jann S. Wenner

"This has obviously been on your mind for a while. How did you come to this decision?


I knew after we invaded Iraq that I was going to be involved in the election. It made me angry. We started to talk about it onstage. I take my three minutes a night for what I call my public-service announcement. We talked about it almost every night on our summer tour.


I felt we had been misled. I felt they had been fundamentally dishonest and had frightened and manipulated the American people into war. And as the saying goes, "The first casualty of war is truth." I felt that the Bush doctrine of preemption was dangerous foreign policy. I don't think it has made America safer.


Look at what is going on now: We are quickly closing in on what looks an awful lot like the Vietnamization of the Iraq war. John McCain is saying we could be there for 10 or 20 years, and John Kerry says four years. How many of our best young people are going to die between now and that time, and what exactly for? Initially I thought I was going to take my acoustic guitar and play in some theaters, find some organizations to work for and do what I could. I was going to lend my voice for a change in the administration and a change in the direction of the country"


<http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/09/28/springsteen_interview/index1.html>

It was a very good article!

...reading this makes me so freakin' happy.