“The invasion of Iraq was a bandit act, an act of blatant state terrorism, demonstrating absolute contempt for the concept of international law,” Pinter said in his Nobel lecture, which he recorded rather than traveling to Stockholm.
“How many people do you have to kill before you qualify to be described as a mass murderer and a war criminal? One hundred thousand?” Harold asked, in a hoarse voice.
http://www.alan.com/2008/12/27/rip-harold-pinter-did-he-hate-who-we-are-or-what-we-did/
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081225/ap_on_re_eu/eu_britain_obit_pinter
One more great man has passed on. We hardly knew ye Harold. Let your words and your writings live on by the generations behind you.
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