Harold Pinter: A Sad, Pathetic Nobel ‘Lecture’
Nobel Prize-winning playwright Harold Pinter has once again lashed out bitterly at Bush and Blair:
In his lecture, which focused more on politics than literature, Pinter launched a ferocious tirade against Bush and Blair, saying they were responsible for tens of thousands of deaths in the Iraq war.
“How many people do you have to kill before you qualify to be described as a mass murderer and a war criminal? One hundred thousand?” he asked, in a hoarse voice.
“We have brought torture, cluster bombs, depleted uranium, innumerable acts of random murder, misery, degradation and death to the Iraqi people and call it ‘bringing freedom and democracy to the Middle East,”‘ Pinter said.
We have, of course, previously awarded our own distinguished honor to the playwright – and well-deserved it was…
We brought torture to Iraq?
That’s odd. I was under the impression that Iraq had a thriving torture industry long before we set foot within its borders.
Silly me.