Reply #2: God forbid we were to repeat what Harold Pinter said about Bush and Blair

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He/she would be drawn and quartered!

Published on Friday, December 9, 2005 by the Progressive
Pinter Lays It All Out: Indict Bush, Blair
by Matthew Rothschild

Occasionally, an award recipient will chuck the clichés and park the platitudes and actually say something meaningful, something daring.

Such a thing happened on December 7 in Stockholm, when Harold Pinter, the Nobel Prize-winner for Literature, delivered an amazing, taped address.

Taped, because he was too ill to deliver it in person.

But he was by no means weak.

He let Bush have it.

But it wasn’t just Bush.

It was Blair and Britain too, a country he called America’s “own bleating little lamb tagging behind it” on a leash.

Pinter asked, “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?”

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/1209-24.htm