December 10, 2005
British playwright Harold Pinter has called for George W. Bush and Tony Blair to be arraigned before the International Criminal Court of Justice for their "vast tapestry of lies" about the war in Iraq.
The criticism appeared Wednesday in Pinter's recorded acceptance speech as winner of the 2005 Nobel Prize for Literature. Due to illness, the 75-year-old was unable to attend the event in Stockholm, Sweden, in person.
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are interested not in truth but in power and the maintenance of that power," he said. " essential that people remain in ignorance, that they live in ignorance of the truth, even the truth of their own lives."
Pinter added that justification for invading Iraq, based on the presence of weapons of mass destruction, "was not true." He continued: "The truth is something entirely different. The truth is to do with how the United States understands its role in the world and how it chooses to embody it." He then turned his attention to Blair and the British Government, accusing them of being a "bleating little lamb tagging behind on a lead."
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