"everyday prattle"

[Otto]

The War against Reason, by Harold Pinter:
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."
(...)
http://www.redpepper.org.uk/natarch/x-pinter-dec2002.html


Michael J. Hußmann wrote:

>John Carvill (JCarvill at algsoftware.com) wrote:
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>>Great. Give the prize to a member of the INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE TO
>>DEFEND SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC.
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>While I despise Slobodan Milosevic as much as everyone else, Pinter was
>awarded the Nobel price in LITERATURE; it's not the peace price.
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>Michael J. Hußmann
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