Harold Pinter, 2005 Nobel Prize Literature, writes Bush a speech!

[JanMichael]

'God is good. God is great. God is good. My God is good. Bin Laden's God is bad. His is a bad God. Saddam's God was bad, except he didn't have one. He was a barbarian. We are not barbarians. We don't chop people's heads off. We believe in freedom. So does God. I am not a barbarian. I am the democratically elected leader of a freedom-loving democracy. We are a compassionate society. We give compassionate electrocution and compassionate lethal injection. We are a great nation. I am not a dictator. He is. I am not a barbarian. He is. And he is. They all are. I possess moral authority. You see this fist? This is my moral authority. And don't you forget it.'

Read his rather scathing acceptance speech here.

One more quote from his speech:

"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? More than enough, I would have thought. Therefore it is just that Bush and Blair be arraigned before the International Criminal Court of Justice. But Bush has been clever. He has not ratified the International Criminal Court of Justice. Therefore if any American soldier or for that matter politician finds himself in the dock Bush has warned that he will send in the marines. But Tony Blair has ratified the Court and is therefore available for prosecution. We can let the Court have his address if they're interested. It is Number 10, Downing Street, London."

Damn I despise what we're doing, have become, are becoming, and have been doing in different degrees for ages...

[w8liftinglady]

1. wow..that's a powerful speech.

[JanMichael]

2. It sure is. I should have included...

...this paragraph too...

"It never happened. Nothing ever happened. Even while it was happening it wasn't happening. It didn't matter. It was of no interest. 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 for universal good. It's a brilliant, even witty, highly successful act of hypnosis."

[sojourner]

3. such well chosen and powerful words thanks for posting them and the link

after reading the whole thing, i see that others see as well as we do. or at least as well as i do...bc often i find people here who don't see the same things i do. but pinter sees, and his lament, his fear that we face the "loss of the dignity of man" is the same one that leads me to the brink of despair. what leads me back is that i see, and he sees, and others also see. and someday, perhaps, we will reckon with those who are doing these things.

edited to add quotation marks