Graham Nash speaks

From the Denver Music Examiner:

In 2006, Neil Young supported his political manifesto Living With War, a controversial record, by re-teaming with Crosby, Stills & Nash for a tour, which has been documented in the Young-directed feature documentary CSNY: Deja Vu. Did you sixty-somethings stir things up the way you did in the past?

"We had the balls to come out and advocate the impeachment of George Bush and Dick Cheney and most of the neocons. We were filmed every night, but our focus was the reaction of the fans to what we were doing -- good and bad. So we had fans that loved it -- `Yes, they're keeping up the tradition of town criers, going from city to city and saying that the emperor not only doesn't have any clothes on, he's totally naked, spiritually and morally.' Just a bunch of musicians in the chain of people stretching back to Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, the Weavers, Bob Dylan and many more. And we recorded adverse opinions -- people that were unbelievably angry with us. I'd like to see those people again that were so adamant against us, giving us the finger and telling Neil Young to stick his head up his ass. Because in the two years since 2006, the situation has gotten crazier -- the destruction of our civil rights, getting rid of `The Great Writ' of habeas corpus, what the Bush administration has done to the image of America throughout the world, spying on America . . . I could go on and on. I think George Bush will be considered the worst president we have ever had in our entire history. The film is called Deja Vu because we've all been here before. In 1968 and 1969, we were doing benefits against the Vietnam War and trying to bring awareness to people about the madness of what was going on. We were lied into that war -- the Gulf of Tonkin, even as recently as a couple of years ago, has been identified as being a complete sham. And here we are, once again, all these years later, being lied into the Iraq war. And right now, we’re probably being lied into a war against Iran. When Charlie Black, who is running the McCain campaign, turns around and says, `You know, if there's a terrorist attack on the United States, it would be a big advantage to McCain' -- making public comment like that is shameless and disgraceful. So here we are, playing music (laughs)."