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Pinter Lays It All Out

Fri, 12/09/2005 - 9:26am — Robert Whitlock
Pinter Lays It All Out: Indict Bush, Blair
By Matthew Rothschild
December 8, 2005
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

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Fri, 12/09/2005 - 10:27am — The Fire Inside

After the Second World War, t

After the Second World War, those on trial on Nuremberg wondered why the Allied powers weren't there, too. Afterall, the Allies committed acts which would fall under the category of "illegal."

Do you know why Allied leaders weren't on trial?

Fri, 12/09/2005 - 6:43pm — Rob Richards

Because they won.

Because they won.
Fri, 12/09/2005 - 8:31pm — The Fire Inside

You are correct, sir.The same

You are correct, sir.

The same is applicable today just as it will be tomorrow.

History is written by the victor.