Oh, Harold, how you do talk!

UPDATE: The full text of the speech can be found here.

Pinter is one of my favorite playwrights to direct - such rich texts for actors and directors to mine - and lord, but I also love him as an angry citizen. His acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize, which he videotaped as he's too ill to attend in person, is a doozy:

"The invasion of Iraq was a bandit act, an act of blatant state terrorism demonstrating absolute contempt for the concept of international law," he said.

"The invasion was an arbitrary military action inspired by a series of lies upon lies and gross manipulation of the media and therefore of the public ... a formidable assertion of military force responsible for the death and mutilation of thousands and thousands of innocent people.

"We have brought torture, cluster bombs, depleted uranium, innumerable acts of random murder, misery, degradation and death to the Iraqi people, and call it 'bringing freedom and democracy to the Middle East'."

Hells yeah! Tell it, Harry! He also calls for both Bush and Blair to be arraigned before the international criminal court of justice. Do you suppose he's available to train democratic congresspersons on how to find their spines?