The Independent du m\u00eame 14 octobre<\/a> une version \u00e9court\u00e9e d’une intervention qu’il avait faite en f\u00e9vrier, lorsqu’il re\u00e7ut le Wilfred Owen Award, du nom du po\u00e8te Wilfrid Owen qui v\u00e9cut au XIX\u00e8me si\u00e8cle. C’est le message de Nobel de Harold Pinter.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00ab …But the free world we are told, as embodied in the United States and Great Britain, is different to the rest of the world since our actions are dictated and sanctioned by a moral authority and a moral passion condoned by someone called God. Some people may find this difficult to comprehend but Osama Bin Laden finds it easy.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bb What would Wilfred Owen make of the invasion of Iraq? A bandit act, an act of blatant state terrorism, demonstrating absolute contempt for the concept of International Law. An arbitrary military action inspired by a series of lies upon lies and gross manipulation of the media and therefore of the public. An act intended to consolidate American military and economic control of the Middle East masquerading as a last resort (all other justifications having failed to justify themselves) as liberation. A formidable assertion of military force responsible for the death and mutilation of thousands upon thousands of innocent people.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bb An independent and totally objective account of the Iraqi civilian dead in the medical magazine The Lancet estimates that the figure approaches 100,000. But neither the US or the UK bother to count the Iraqi dead. As General Tommy Franks of US Central Command memorably said: We don’t do body counts.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bb We have brought torture, cluster bombs, depleted uranium, innumerable acts of random murder, misery and degradation to the Iraqi people and call it bringing freedom and democracy to the Middle East. But, as we all know, we have not been welcomed with the predicted flowers. What we have unleashed is a ferocious and unremitting resistance, mayhem and chaos.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bb You may say at this point: what about the Iraqi elections? Well, President Bush himself answered this question when he said: We cannot accept that there can be free democratic elections in a country under foreign military occupation. I had to read that statement twice before I realised that he was talking about Lebanon and Syria.<\/em> \u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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D\u00e9signer le dramaturge britannique Harold Pinter comme Nobel de Litt\u00e9rature, c’\u00e9tait prendre le risque de d\u00e9plaire \u00e0 nos amis Am\u00e9ricains. C’est fait. Les choix du Nobel dans les domaines culturels (comme celui de Jimmy Carter comme Nobel de la Paix) refl\u00e8tent p\u00e9riodiquement l’\u00e9volution du sentiment politique g\u00e9n\u00e9ral profond (mais le plus souvent dissimul\u00e9), y compris… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1450],"class_list":["post-66921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloc-notes","tag-pinter"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}