Nobel Laureate Pinter Assails Bush, Blair - Yahoo! News: "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.
The Nobel committee has not shied from rewarding writers who make a stand against authority, notably in rewarding the literature prize to Soviet dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn in 1970.
Horace Engdahl, the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, introduced the lecture by saying Pinter was delivering 'his free words such as a writer has a right to say them.'
Pinter accused the United States of supporting 'every right wing military dictatorship in the world' after World War II, from Chile to the Philippines.
'The crimes of the United States have been systematic, constant, vicious, remorseless, but very few people have actually talked about them,' he said. 'It has exercised a quite clinical manipulation of power worldwide while masquerading as a force for universal good. It's a brilliant, even witty, highly successful act of hypnosis.'"
Yes, Mr. Pinter, I, and those that visit this site often, know this all to be true.
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