Re: The Great British Playwrite Speaks on the War in Iraq

"David Halpern" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>       http://www.haroldpinter.org/politics/god_bless_america.shtml#
>
>       House of Commons Speech - October 2002
>
>       There's an old story about Oliver Cromwell. After he had taken the
> town of Drogheda
>       the citizens were brought to the main square. Cromwell announced to
> his Lieutenants: "Right! Kill all the women and rape all the men." One of
> his aides said: "Excuse me General. Isn't it the other way around?" A
voice
> from the crowd called out: "Mr. Cromwell knows what he's doing!"
>
>       That voice is the voice of Tony Blair "Mr Bush knows what he's
doing!"
> But the fact is that Mr Bush and his gang do know what they're doing and
> Blair, unless he really is the deluded idiot he often appears to be, also
> knows what they're doing. They are determined, quite simply, to control
the
> world and the world's resources. And they don't give a damn how many
people
> they murder on the way. And Blair goes along with it.
>
>       He hasn't the support of the Labour Party, he hasn't the support of
> the country or of the celebrated "international community". How can he
> justify taking this country into a war nobody wants. He can't. He can only
> resort to rhetoric, cliché and propaganda. Little did we think when we
voted
> Blair into power that we would come to despise him. The idea that he has
> influence over Bush is laughable. His supine acceptance of American
bullying
> is pathetic.
>
>       Bullying is of course a time honoured American tradition. In 1965
> Lyndon Johnson said to the Greek Ambassador to the US: "Fuck your
parliament
> and your constitution. America is an elephant. Cyprus is a flea. Greece is
a
> flea. If these two fellows continue itching the elephant they may just get
> whacked by the elephants trunk, whacked good".
>
>       He meant what he said. Shortly afterwards the Colonels, supported by
> the United States, took over and the Greek people spent seven years in
hell.
>
>       As for the American elephant, it has grown to be a monster of
> grotesque and obscene proportions.
>
>       The terrible atrocity in Bali does not alter the facts of the case.
>
>       The "special relationship" between the USA and the United Kingdom
has,
> in the last twelve years, brought about the deaths of thousands upon
> thousands of people in Iraq, Afghanistan and Serbia. All this in pursuit
of
> the American and British "moral crusade", to bring "peace and stability to
> the world".
>
>       The use of depleted uranium in the Gulf War has been particularly
> effective. Radiation levels in Iraq are appallingly high. Babies are born
> with no brain, no eyes, no genitals. Where they do have ears, mouths or
> rectums, all that issues from these orifices is blood. Blair and Bush are
of
> course totally indifferent to such facts, not forgetting the charming,
> grinning, beguiling Bill Clinton, who was apparently given a standing
> ovation at the Labour Party Conference. For what? Killing Iraqi children?
Or
> Serbian children?
>
>       Bush has said: "We will not allow the worlds worst weapons to remain
> in the hands of the worlds worst leaders". Quite right. Look in the mirror
> chum. That's you.
>
>       The US is at this moment developing advanced systems of "weapons of
> mass destruction" and is prepared to use them where it sees fit. It has
> walked away from international agreements on biological and chemical
> weapons, refusing to allow any inspection of its own factories.
>
>       It is holding hundreds of Afghans prisoner in Guantanamo Bay,
allowing
> them no legal redress, although they are charged with nothing, holding
them
> captive virtually for ever.
>
>       It is insisting on immunity from the international criminal court, a
> stance which beggars belief but which is now supported by Great Britain.
>
>       The hypocrisy is breathtaking.
>
>       Tony Blair's contemptible subservience to this criminal American
> regime demeans and dishonours this country.
>
>       Harold Pinter
>
>
FUCK HAROLD PINTER.

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