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'A Monster Of Obscene & Grotesque Proportions' 

The Bush / Blair Gang
By Harold Pinter
12-10-2

There's an old story about Oliver Cromwell. After he had taken the 
Irish 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." 

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. Bush and company 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, cliche 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 US bullying is pathetic.

Bullying is, of course, a time-honoured US tradition. Addressing the 
Greek ambassador to the US in 1965, Lyndon Johnson said: "F*** your 
parliament and your constitution. The US 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 elephant's trunk, whacked 
good." He meant what he said. Shortly afterwards the colonels, supported 
by the US, took over in Greece and the Greek people spent seven years in 
hell.

As for the US 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. a The "special relationship" between the US and the 
UK has, in the last 12 years, brought about the deaths of thousands 
upon thousands of people in Iraq, Afghanistan and Serbia. All this in 
pursuit of the US and UK "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 world's worst weapons to remain 
in the hands of the world's 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 despite their being charged with nothing, holding 
them captive virtually for ever. a It is insisting on immunity from the 
international criminal court, a stance that beggars belief but which is 
now supported by the UK.  

The hypocrisy is breathtaking. Tony Blair's contemptible subservience 
to this criminal US regime demeans and dishonours his country.

Harold Pinter is a playwright, director, actor, poet and political activist. 

This text was first delivered as a speech to an anti-war meeting at the  
House of Commons

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Cheers, Steve..

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