Besides being dementedly wrong, I bet his plays suck.
Playwright Harold Pinter has launched a fierce critique of the Iraq War, branding the US President and British Prime Minister war criminals in his lecture as winner of this year’s Nobel Prize for Literature.
Pinter has demanded George Bush and Tony Blair be prosecuted under international law in the lecture.
“The invasion of Iraq was a bandit act, an act of blatant state terrorism, demonstrating absolute contempt for the concept of international law,” he said.
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Pinter used nearly all of his nearly hour-long lecture to criticise the US.
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“The crimes of the United States have been systematic, constant, vicious, remorseless, but very few people have actually talked about them.
“You have to hand it to America.
“It has exercised a quite clinical manipulation of power worldwide while masquerading as a force of universal good.
“It’s a brilliant, even witty, highly successful act of hypnosis.”
Did I say demented? Yeah, Pinter’s that and then some. Hell, let’s just ignore America’s political opposition to a multitude of regimes that have together killed millions upon millions. Let’s ignore America’s sacrifices that have freed other millions from brutal oppression that Pinter was apparently quite happy to have as a part of the global neighborhood.
Hell, let’s not stop at demented. Let’s go for lying jackhole.
“We were told that Iraq had a relationship with Al Quaeda and shared responsibility for the atrocity in New York of September 11, 2001. It was not true.”
Hey, Pinter, you sick old leftist probable-hack (really, I haven’t read or seen his crap but, hey, I’m merely prejudging — he’s the one actually lying), just which one of those you accuse, Bush or Blair, said Iraq “shared responsibility” for 9/11? Answer: neither, jackhole.
Meanwhile, al Jazeera is quite happy echoing Pinter’s garbage.