Art, Truth and Power

Bush and Blair slated by Pinter. The playwright launched a scathing attack on US and UK politicians in his lecture as winner of this year’s Nobel Prize for Literature.

“(America) has exercised a quite clinical manipulation of power worldwide while masquerading as a force for universal good “

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And my reader, m, comments:

“It is indeed a sorrow that we have not followed Washington’s advice about avoiding foreign entanglements in this matter. As a nation we have been played for collective fools by a group of confidence artists. We suffer mightily from the results of this fraud, but our pain is nowhere near that of the peoples of Iraq.

The worst, is that the con was such a shoddy job. It is truly disheartening that so many, were played so well, by such stupid bald-faced lies.

Criminal trials of the perpetrators would certainly help to reduce the probability of a repetition in the near future. The Bush cabal seems to love severe punishment for lawless behavior, so let us indulge them.”