John Le Carre, Richard Dawkins, Brian Eno, Michel Faber, Harold Pinter-Not One More Death-Verso (2006)

8/18/2019 John Le Carre, Richard Dawkins, Brian Eno, Michel Faber, Harold Pinter-Not One More Death-Verso (2006)

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NOT ONE MRE DEATH

Two days after the worldwide demonstrations

against the Iraq war on February 5 2003, NewYork Times reporter Patrick Tyler rote that "Thehuge anti-war deonstrations around the world thisweekend are reminders that there may still be twosuperpowers on the planet: The United States andworld public opinion.

In the UK the Stop the War Coalition remains thefocal pont of that public opinion, as does nited forPeace and Justice in America As the Pentagon publishes its plans for a Long War on many continents and the spin doctors continue to ratchet up tension

and fea the mobilization of the peoples of the world against war is as urgent and necessary as eve

This book is part of that movement


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NOT ONE MORE DEATH

Brian Eno

John le Carr

Harold Pinter

Richard Dawkins

Haifa Zangana

Michel Faber

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Frst published by Verso2006ot O o ath© Verso and

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Contents

a Eo The Missionar Position 1

Joh l Ca The US Has Gone Mad 8

Haold P rt Truth and Politics 14

Rchad awks Bin Laden Victor 33

Haa Zagaa The Right to Rule Ourselves 40

chl aDreams in the Dumpste

52Language Down the Drain


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Noes on he Auhors

John l Carre' most recent book is AbsoluteFriends. His nineteen noves include The ConstantGardener

Rchard Dawkis is the Ches Simonyi Professorof the Pubic Understnding of Science t OrdUniversit He is the uthor of The elfsh Genend, most recently, The Ancestor' Tale

Bran 's lbums include Another Green Worldnd Apollo: Atmospheres and oundtracks; hehs so produced rtists such s U2 nd vidBoie

Michl Fabr is the uthor of The Crimson Petal

and the White nd The Fahrenheit TwinsHarold Pintr s rded the 2005 Nobe Prizer Literture.

Haifa Zangana is n Irqiborn noveist, rtistnd ctivist; her books incude Keys to a City ndWomen on a Journey


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B

The Missionary Position

T DFNNG eve of he s e yers s hede eeco of eorge Bsh s Presde

of he Ued Ses 2000 s he fro of ber reco h hd bee org s yhrogh he erc soc fbrc fr he prevos

hry yers Ths reco s dedced o d hso soe ee scceeded rveg Weserdeocrc bers We re o he ses

Wh Aerc erred fer /11 d he ed rezy of pro s regoe cocsoh ogh" oosese" eder e Bsh odoo rgh o he erc peope The cb h Bshfroed ogeher h Chee sd Wozd Pere hd bee oevrg sef o posohrogho he ees d s ebers hd deher eos cer he es of The Projec r Ne erc Cery" PC) d esehereThey o ooed rrd o cre bhe secre

he oedge h yoe qesog her ffro ss o ber deocrcy cod be beeds eher ve or recheros d dy rgzed

They beeved f specr doce" heybeeved preepve ry co b os of hey beeved he hsorc desy of he Ued


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2 NOT ONE MORE DEATH

States and ts right to assert and secue ts hegeonAt root they thought that erica had triuphed in

the orld not because t as poerful but because tas fundaentally right, and history had so udgedro there it as a short step to thinking that Aericahad a divine duty to help the rest of the orld euatet and to eclude or even punish those ho ouldn'tThs is the Mssionary positon

Whatever had been acheved or aed r in thestes as hat this ne revoution no had in tssights and as set to disantle Market orces"and The Invisibe Hand" ysteriously gudingthe selforganzing econoic paradise becae de-ed ust as Mother Nature" had been deied by the

hippies thirty years earier This aggressive MarketRoantcis brought th it a sort of issonaryzeal ndistinguishable fro the drive to Chrstanizethe orld that occuped the nineteenth century andust at that te have seeed ust as unarguaby self-evidenty right After all as e oud have said thenand as e are st saying no it's their on good

Such ere the precondtions r a ar: the needr a sharpy dran orld pcture that ncudes a clearand evl eney the Sovet Unon having stepped outof the pcture); the assuption of absoute oralsuperorty; the unstoppable hunger of aggressvecaptals; a splstic causeandeect deais; and

a lot of repoer hat oves the project on foMssonary to Crusader.

But it leaves to unansered questions hat ddony Bar have to do ith all this and ho did heand Bush end up in Iraq of a places? Wasn't t a-Qaeda e ere suposed to be after?


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BRIAN ENO 3

t the tme, the knd eplanaton regardng theBar/Bush betrotha as that Bar oud ren n

the orst muses of the Bushmen athough thseplanaton faded as they gnored hm henever tsuted them, and anyay t became clearer that heshared many of ther menaran mpuses nothertheory held that Bar, an vangeca Chrstan lkeBush, dscovered a knshp" th hm n that they

both understood hat ood and Ev meant andere prepared to act thout the dtherng quamsand nuances that berals or j udges or teachers or cvlservants or mtary ofcers or ndeed anyne thactua eperence of lf outsde poltcs) mght bencned to sho

Perhaps the eplanaton s smpler Bar s a manho admres charsma and poer, and ho ants tobe around those ho have them He s, n short, a fan.He as bedazzled by the gamour of the Bush court,and by hs on sudde debut on the orld stage netto the Presdent It as hs chance to be sdekck to themost poerful man on the planet, and r the to ofthem to presde trumphanty over the brth of a bravene ord order, startng th Iraq It as a vantyproect s tme passes and th nsders begn t talk,t seems ncreasngly lkely that smple male ego mghthave been the reason these to men started a ar n afregn countr It snt the rst tme

If these ere the motves that mpeled Bush andBlar, hat drove the more covert rces behnd them?It's clear no and as then, actualy that Iraq hadnothng to do th alQaeda, hch as after all thesupposed target But n the end a ar n Iraq suteda lot of people, ho ere happy to actvely promote


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4 NO ONE MORE DEAH

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I ied he Bhmen ih hei ceiny h heAmeicn y he righ y nd hei deie onih h he f W hd ed I iedecion of he mii nio o ode neeony nd cic I ied m dee ndeon comnie ied he oimen bece

i oeed cono ove he nd ekened OPCnd he Sdi coeonding ied he eiigh o diooioney eeened in he WhieHoe o hve oeni enemy neized n he me ime o end he onge of ign o oheoge e" in he egion I ied he vngeic

Chiin ho hi e on he od oe. I ied he vngeic Democize hohog h feemke cii democcy codbe ned nyhee nyime nd h hing odceiny be bee if i ee I ied he oihngyAmeicn economy hich he chnce of gobhegemony nd ned big my in he Midde om ee o kee n eye on hing I ied he idei nd hee ee mny ho egded Sddm mone ho hd o be emoved b nneydidn k he qeion nd hen h?") And iied Ton Bi eh ome of he obvioeon b eh moy bece he ned o be

eding om he fon ih hi heo o cde feedom And i ied he hoo men nd men he chik of Bi govenmen bee beyond nyhing ee hey e eoe ekin mind nd ii ho n o be on he emh inning


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BRIAN ENO 5

/11 had made the pbic scared enogh the mediancritical enogh and the poiticians coed enogh

r both the British and the American governments torebrand the War On Terror" as a ar on Iraq Bothor governments kne tere as no link beteen /1 1and Iraq They kne rom eight years of inspectionsand ten years of bombing and sanctions) that Iraq asnot actay deveoping chemica biologica or ncear

eapons and that the regime as toothess and tterynable to defend itself against the biggest attack inhistory by the biggest miitary poer in histor

So in the end yo cant help thinking that Iraq asinvaded not becase it as dangeros as e caimedbt becase it as the least threatening contry in

the region and therere the best place rom hich tobegin a conqest of the Midde East As NeoCon andPNACman Ken Ademan predicted so condentand so rongy it od be a cakeak" over in a eeks.

The ar asn't over in a eeks and in terms

of any of its originaly stated goas has so far been ashattering faire If it as meant to improve the ivesof the Iraqi peope it faied If it as meant to stemthe tide of terrorism it faied If it as meant to makethe orld safer r the rest of s it faied If it asintended to stabiize the price of oil it faied If it asmeant to be a beacon of democracy" r the rest ofthe Arab orld it failed

r the trth is that aong ith their aiesBersconi in Italy and Hoard in Astraia Bshand Bair seem qite indierent to actal democracIts a sef banner to y above their ambitions asthogh it's ne to destroy a contry and severa tho


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sd f its pepe if t the ed f it y c pste thebe DMOCACY" ve the mess y've eft

The hs chieved e tig thgh It hs p-jcted Weste miity pe it e ces f thegbe Pehps the bcm bys i the Ameicgvemet this s the e mbiti gAmeic gt ht it ted i Iq d Afghist14 ge miity bses i the Midde st ts f jbs

f the bys d y f jstifyig t stpeedppti eveicesig miity bdget devedecesig pes eedms Ad Biti s sef mggis egey ig behid te py-gd by's biy mte

I fct miiti the UK's pesece i Iq is mst

ieevt e hve 8000 sdies thee cmped t160000 Ameics d estimted 30000 estemeceies. Biti theee epesets de 5 pecet f the ghtig ce Bt t the Ameic gvemet Biti's sppt is cci f qite thees it vidtes US ctis d emes thei

sttegic mbitis s pt f ti ite-ti demctic pject. Witht the UK this d ppe s it ey is t The West" gistMiitt Ism bt the Ameic spepe tyigt cqe the Midde st.

Ad this is pehps the mst cmpeig es fithdig tps As g s e sty ete the est f the d tht e edse this eces-sy d thsme tht e sppt this cptdmiistti d its ciist pject Ad e tethe d tht ith ecmic d scieticd ct pe this is ht e chse t d t


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BIN ENO 7

yrannize and maim an aready suffering counr inorder, we say rerospecively, o free i from yrann

is essenial ha we resore our sanding in heword by making i clear ha we, he Briish pubic,do no and never did suppor his insane proec, andha we were he vicims of a caculaed program ofpropaganda and decei by our governmen And wemus hod Blair and his gang o accoun r ha by

impeaching him and by hrowing hem our beyond he disaser of his vaniy projec hereis an even bigger one his war has so far cos at least200 billion doars By UN esimaes, r ha amounwe could have provided clean waer r he 2 biionpeope who don now have i milions of whom

will die from waerborne disases We could also haveeradicaed maaria he worlds mos leha disease from he plane And we could have provided hererovira drugs ha he words AIS vicims need osay aive And here woud have been cash lef overo acke a couple of oher global probems Perhapswe woud have even sared hinking abou he biggesproblem of all cimae change

There are real probems in his world, probemsha wi need enormous vision and ingenuiy and generosiy r heir soluion. he war in Iraq represenshe lack of any of hese, and he abec squandering ofour poenia as a civiizaion We shoud be ashamed:

no only fr wha weve done in Iraq, bu r every-hing ese weve hus failed o do


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CARRE

The United States Has Gone Mad

This aricl was wrin in January 2003: wo monhs bforh UN rfusd o auhoriz Bush and Blair projcdinvasion of Iraq Th Unid Naions had bcom a focusfor h hops of many opponns of h wa Y in Jun200, h UN wn on o ndors h occupaion of Iraqin Rsoluion 6 Th Pnagon has now rbrandd h

War on Trror as h Long Wa and Amrica appars ob sing is sighs on Iran Whil h mdia rcis manras abou sprading frdom and dmocracy !n h MiddlEas Washingon coninus o conmn hos counris Palsin Vnzula Iran ha lc anyon ohr han hUS's prfrrd candid Th Unid Sas is dscndingfurhr ino madnss, unchckd by ihr h consiuion

or h lcora Briain for as long as w hav TonyBlair singing h sam lis as Gorg Bush Amrica's hallucinaions and nighmars will b ours

AMC eeed oe of s peods of hsoc mdess b hs s he os c emembe

ose h McChysm ose h he By of Pgsd he og em poey moe dssos hhe Vem W

The eco o 911 s beyod yhg smb Lde cod hve hoped hs ses demss McChy mes he feedoms h hve mdemec he evy of he od e beg sysemcy


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JOHN E C 9

eroded. The cobinton of coplint US edi ndvested corporte interests is once ore ensrng tht

debte tht shold be ringing ot n every tonsqre is conned to the lofter colns of the stCost press

The iinent r s pnned yers befre bnLden strck, bt it s he ho de it possible.Wthot bn Lden, the Bsh jt od still be trying

to eplin sch tricky tters s ho t ce to beelected n the rst plce nron its sheless fvorng of the redytoorch its reckess disregrd rthe ords poor, the ecoogy nd rft of nterllybrogted nterntionl tretes They ght so hveto be teling s hy they spport Isre in its contn-

ing disregrd fr UN resoltions.Bt bin Lden convenenty sept tht nderthe crpet The Bshes re riding high No 88 percent of Aercns nt the r, e re told The USdefence bdget hs been rsed by nother $6 bionto rond $6 bllon. A splendd ne generton of

ncer epons s n the pipene, so e cn ll brethees Qte ht r 88 per cent of Aericns thnkthey re spporting s ot less cler. A r fr hoong, pese? At ht cost n Aericn lves? At htcost to the Aercn tpyer's pocket? At ht cost becse ost of those 88 per cent re thoroghlydecent nd hne peope in Irqi lives?

Ho Bsh nd his jnt scceeded in defectngAeric's nger fro bin Lden to Sdd Hssenis one of the gret pbcretons conjrng tricksof histor Bt they sng it A recent poll tels stht one n to Aericns no beeve Sdd sresponsibe r the ttck on the World Trde Centre.


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10 NOT ONE MOE DETH

B h Amric pbic is o mry big misld Iis big brob d p i s of igorc

d fr h crfy orchsrd rosis shodcrry Bsh d his fo cospirors icy io h cio

hos ho r o ih Mr Bsh r gishim Wors, hy r ih h m Which is odd,bcs I'm dd gis Bsh, b I old lov o

s Sddm's dofl js o o Bsh's rmsd o by his mhods Ad o dr h brof sch orgos hypocris h rligios c hill sd Amric roops io b is prhps hmos sicig spc of his srrl rob Bshhs rmloc o od Ad od hs vry priclr

poiic opiios. od ppoid Amric o sv hord i y y h sis Amric. od ppoidIsr o b h s of Amric's Middl Esrpoicy, d yo ho s o mss ih h idis ) iSmiic, b) iAmric, c) ih h my,d d) rroris

od so hs pry scry cocios I Amric,hr m r q i His sigh, if o i oohr's, h Bsh fmily mbrs o Prsid, oPrsid, o hd of h CIA, h ovrorof orid d h ovror of s.

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JOHN E C

fr hr And so on B non of hs riing sso-ciions cs h ingriy of od's ork

In hi Prsidn org Bsh s visiing h vrdmocric Kingdom of Ki orciv hnks fr ibring hm, sombody rido ki him Th CIA bivs h sombody sSddm Hnc Bsh Jr's cry Th mn rid o kimy Ddd B i's si no prson, his r I's si

ncssr I's si od's ork. I's si bo bringingfrdom nd dmocrcy o opprssd Irqi popTo b mmbr of h m yo ms so biv

in Abso ood nd Abso Evi, nd Bsh, ih o of hp rom his rinds, fmiy nd od, is hro s hich is hich Wh Bsh on' s is h

rh bo hy 'r going o r Wh is skis no n Ais of Evi b oi, ony nd pop'sivs Sddm's misrn is o si on h scond biggs oid in h ord. Bsh ns i, n ho hpshim g i i rciv pic of h ck And hodosn', on'

If Sddm didn' hv h oi, h cod orrhis ciizns o his hr's conn hr drs do ivry dy hink Sdi Arbi, hink Pisn, hinkTry, hink Syri, hink Egyp

Bhd rprsns no r nd prsn dngr ois nigbors, nd non o h US or Briin Sddm'spons of mss dsrcion, if h's si go hm,i b pns by comprison ih h sf Isror Amric co hr him v mins' noicWh is sk is no n imminn miiry or rroris hr, b h conomic impriv of US grohWh is sk is Amric's nd o dmonsr ismiiry por o of s o Erop nd ssi nd


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China and poor mad ittle North Korea as wel as theMidde East; to show who rues America at home and

who is o be rued by America abroad

The most charitabe interpretation of Tony Bair'spart in all this is that he beieved that by riding thetiger he could steer it He can't. Instead he gave it aphoney legitimacy and a smooth voice Now I ar

the same tiger has him penned into a corner and hecan't get outIt is utterly laughable that at a time when Bair has

talked himself against the ropes neither of Britain'sopposition leaders can lay a glove on him But that'sBritain's tragedy as it is America's: as our overnments

spin lie and ose their credibiit the eectorate simplyshrugs and ooks the other wa Blair's best chance ofpersonal survival must be that at the eleventh hourwod protest and an improbaby emboldened UN wirce Bush to put his gun bac in his hoster unedBut what happens when the word's greatest cowboy

rides back into town without a tyrant's head to waveat the boys?Bair's worst chance is that with or without the

UN he will drag us into a war that if the wi tonegotate energeticay had ever been there could havebeen avoided; a war that has been no more democrati-caly debated in Britain than it has in America or atthe UN By doing so Bair wi have set back our rea-tions with Euope and the Midde East r decades ocome. He wi have helped to povoke unreseeableretaiation geat domestic unrest and regiona chaosin the Middle East. Wecome to the party of the ethi-cal reign polic


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JOHN E CRR 3

Th is mi w b is oh o shis i wiho U o i sys o h

b Gooby o h sci ioshi ci wh h my Pim Miis his

h c's sohisis o his cooiis .His y xiis bo o sh by s m Wh h c xi is how h cocis ob ss o Q wih ioi ss

o q W i his w i i s c o sch o o sci ioshi o b osh o h oi o bcs h bichhoi i Wshio Cm Di ihs o show h .

wi w wi Dy?"

cos chi. wi b o whi yosi i b"Why?"cs ohwis M shs os wi

iby imi my ci o o o him" wi o b i Dy?"

oboy yo ow i Js i o"C wch i o isio?"y i M sh sys yo c." ws wi yhi b om i?

oboy wi o yhi hoi y mo?"Hsh chi o o s"Ls iy i o mi i Cii o o

his oc sm wih sic o his c syiPc is so Pioic" ws o by h im hish shoi


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HD PE

Art, Truth and Politic

"

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wht is ls thi s ot cssrly ithr tror ls; it c b both tr ls"

I bli tht ths ssrtos stl mk ss

o still ly to th xlortio o rlty throh rt.So s writr I st by thm bt s ctiz I cot.s ctiz I mst sk Wht s tr? Wht is ls?

Trth i rm is rr ls Yo r qt it bt th srch r t is comlsi Th srchs clrly wht rs th or. h srch isyor tsk Mor ot th ot yo stmbl o thtrth th rk collii with t or jst lms im or sh whch sms to corrso to thtrth ot wthot rls tht yo h o so.t th rl trth s tht thr r is y sch ths o trth to b rmtc rt Thr rm Ths trths chll ch othr rcoil rom

ch othr rct ch othr ior ch othr tsch othr r bl to ch othr Somtms yo lyo h th trth o momt yor h th tsls throh yor rs is lost

I h ot b sk how my lys com botI cot s or c I r sm my lys xct to


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HOD INTE 5

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I h s cs somo ws obiosy ooi i o scissos ws mi hi whboso somo s h ssc h oby sohm I somhow w h h so ssi i m bo h scissos o bo hqsio ih h m

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I wys s y by ci h chcs A C

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was his so, b I ha oo This was howcom a sho im a wh (a o bcom

Ly) says o {a o bcom ax), Da, oyo mi i I cha h sbc? I wa o as yosomhi Th i w ha b, wha was ham o i? Wha o yo ca i? Why o yo bya o? Yo a o coo. Hos. Yo hi yocooi a o o os." So sic cas Da"

i sm o m asoab o assm ha hy wh a so. was aso cay h coo a hiscooi i o sm o b h i hih a ihis ma ha h was o moh? i ow., as I o mys a h im, o biis ow o s

Da" a wiow. Ei s ma, (ao bcom Dy), a a woma, (a o bcomKa) , sii wih is Fa o hi?" h ma ass.Who a hy ai abo? I h s, saia h wiw, a woma, C (a o bcom a),i aoh coiio o ih, h ba o hm, hhai a

Is a sa mom, h mom o ca-i chaacs who o ha mom ha ha oxisc Wha ows is , cai, haciao ahoh somims i ca b a soabaaach Th ahos osii is a o o ass h is o wcom by h chaacs Th cha-acs sis him, hy a o asy o i wih, hya imossib o . Yo cai ca icao hm. To a cai x yo ay a iam wih hm, ca a mos, bi mas b, hia s ay yo ha yo ha o o


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sh boo o yo hs o wih wi iii ssibiy o hi ow m o o

como s yo b o ch mi- o iso

So i mis hihy mbiosscio qics moi oz oowhich mih i wy yo h ho yim

s h si h sch h h c so co b o i co b oso hs o b c ih h o h so

oiic h ss iy i so obms Smoizi hs o b oi cos bciiy is ssi Th hcs ms b

ow o bh hi ow i Th ho coco cosic hm o sisy his ow so isosiio o ic H ms b ooch hm om iy o s om ihibi o scis hm bysis hs occsioy b hss ihm h om o o which wy hy wi Thisos o wys wo A oiic si o coshs o o o hs cs i c os -cisy h oosi which is is o cio

my y Th ihy y hi ow who o oios o o i s so ossibiiy b y cssi o c osbio

Moi L s o o sch ooio mis b sho hsois i h y o som o o i somims s h os bcom siy boThy bi o h o hi siis This


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hs b corm o cors by th ts t bGhrib i h Moti L sts oy

mits bt it co o o r hor tr hor o o o th sm ttr rt ovr ori o o hor r hor

shs to shs o th othr h sms t m tob tki c r wtr rowi wom hrh rchi throh th wvs roi ow

ot o siht rchi r othrs bt i oboythr ithr bo or r th wtr i oyshows rctios oti; th wom ost ri rowi sc wom b to scth oom tht sm to blo oly to othrs

t s thy i sh mst i tooPoiticl l s s by oliticis os ottr ito y o this trritory sic th mjority ooiticis o th ic ibl to s r itrst ot i trth bt i owr i th mitco tht owr o miti tht owr it is sstitht o rmi i iorc tht thy li i io-rc o th trth th trth o thir ow isWht srros s thrr is st tstry o iso which w

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n th scrty o th wor W wr ssr it wstr It ws not tr

Th trth is somthing ntry rnt Th trths to o with how th Ut Stts nrstns tsro in th wor n how t chooss to mboy t

t br I com bc to th prst I wo i

to oo t th rcnt pst by which mn UntStts rign pocy snc th n o th Scon WorWr I bi t s obigtory pon s to sbct thsprio to t st som n o n imt scrtiywhch is tht tim wi ow hr

Eryon nows wht hppn t Sot Uion

n throghot Estrn Erop ring th postwrpro th systmtic brtty th wispr troc-ts th rthss spprsson o pthoght this hs bn y ocmnt n ri

t my contnto hr s tht th US crims ith sm pro h ony bn sprcy rcort on ocmt t o cnowg ton rcogniz s crims t I bi this mstb rss n tht th trth hs consrbbrig on whr th wor stns now thoghconstri to crtn xtt by th xstnc oth Sot Uio th Unit Stts ctons throgh-ot th wor m t cr tht t h coc th crt bnch to o wht it .

Dirct inson o sorig stt hs nr inct b mrics or mtho I th mn iths prrr wht it hs scrb s ow itnsiycoict" Low ntsty coct mns tht thosnso pop i bt sowr thn yo ropp bomb


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o hm i o swoo I mas ha yo ic hha o h co ha yo sabish a maia

owh a wach h a boom. Wh hoac has b sb o ba o ah hsam hi a yo ow is h miiay ah a cooaios si comaby i ow yoo b h cama a say ha mocacy has -vai This was a commoac i US i oicy

i h yas o which I Th ay o icaaa was a hihy siicacas I choos o o i h as a o xam omicas viw o is o i h wo boh h aow

I was s a a mi a h US mbassy i

Loo i h a 980sTh Ui Sas Coss was abo o ciwhh o iv mo moy o h Coas i hicamai aais h sa o icaaa I wasa mmb o a aio saki o bha oicaaa b h mos imoa mmb o hisaio was a ah Joh Mca Th a oh US boy was Raymo Siz (h mb woo h ambassao a ambassao hims} ahMca sai Si I am i cha o a aish i hoh o icaaa. My aishios bi a schooa hah c a ca c W hav iv iac w mohs ao a Coa c aack h

aish. Thy soy yhi h schoo hhah c h ca c Thy a ssa achs sah ocos i h mos bama Thy bha ik savas Pas maha h US ovm wihaw is so omhis shocki ois acivi"


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ymo Seiz h ey oo eio s iol esosible hihly sohisice m.

He ws ely esece i ilomic cicles Helisee se he soe wih some ihe" he si le me ell yo somehi I wioce eole lwys se" Thee ws ozesilece We se him He i o ich

Ioce eole iee lwys se

illy someboy si: i his cse ioceeole wee he icims o esome ociy sb-siize by yo oeme oe mo m ICoess llows he Cos moe moey he

ociies o his i will e lce Is his o hecse? Is yo oeme o heee ily o s-oi cs o me escio o heciizes o soeei se?"

Seiz ws imebble I o ee h hecs s esee so yo sseios" he si

s we wee lei he Embssy US ie ol meh he eoye my lys I i o ely.I shol emi yo h he ime Pesie

e me he llowi seme: The Cose he mol eqile o o oi hes"

The Uie Ses soe he bl Somozicoshi i ic oe 4 yes Theic eole le by he Siiss oehew his eime i 979 behi oleolio

The Siiss wee eec They ossessehei i she o oce hei oliicl hilos-ohy coie mbe o coicoy elemes


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hy wr ii rio ciii Thys o o sbish sb c risic soci-

Th h y ws boish. Hrs ohoss o orysric ss wr brohbc rom h . r 00000 miis wr ii o Two hos schoos wr bi A qirmrb ircy cmi rc iircy i hcory o ss h o sh r cio ws

sbish r hh sric. I moriyws rc by hir oio ws ric

Th Ui Ss oc hs chimss MrxisLiis sbrsio I h iw o hUS orm ros xm ws bi sI icr ws ow o sbish bsic orms

o soci coomic jsic i i ws ow oris h srs o hh cr cio chi soci iy io s rsc ihbori coris wo s h sm qsios o h sm his Thr ws o cors h imrc rsisc o h ss qo i E Sor

I so ir bo sry o is" whichsrros s rsi R commoy scribicr s oiri o" his ws ry by h mi criy by hriish orm s ccr ir comm hr ws i c o rcor o h sqs rh Siis om Thr ws o rcor oorr Thr ws o rcor o sysmic or o-ci miiry bri o riss wr r mrri icr Thr wr i c hr riss i horm wo Jsis Mryo missiorTh oiri os wr cy x oor iE Sor Gm Th Ui Ss h


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boht ow th mocticlly ct omto Gtml i 1954 it is stimt tht o

200000 ol h b ictims o sccssi mility icttoshis.Six o th most istiish Jsits i th wol

w iciosly m t th Ctl micUisity i S Slo i 1989 by bttlio oth lctl imt ti t ot Bi Goi

US Tht xtmly b m chbisho Romows ssssit whil syi mss It is stimttht 75000 ol i. hy w thy ill? Thyw ill bcs thy bi btt i ws ossibl shol b chi Tht bli immitlyqli thm s commists. Thy i bcs

thy to qstio th stts qo th lss lt o ot iss tio ossiowhich h b thi bithiht

Th Uit Stts lly boht ow thSiist omt It too som ys cosib sistc bt tlss coomic sctio 30000 lly mi th siit o thic ol Thy w xhst otystic oc i. Th csios mo bc ito thcot hlth ctio w o Bibsiss t with c Dmoccy"h il

Bt this olicy" ws by o ms stict toCtl mic. It ws coct thohot thwol It ws i it is s i it h

Th Uit Stts sot i my css y ihtwi mility icttoshii th wol t th o th Sco ol


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I rr o Iosi, Grc, ry, rzi, rHii, ry, h hiiis, Gm, E Sor,

, o cors, Chi. h horror h Ui Ssiic o Chi i 1973 c r b r c r b ri

Hrs o hoss o hs oo chroho hs coris Di hy c r hy i css ribb o US ri

oicy h swr is ys hy i c hyr ribb o mric ri oic yowo' ow i

I r h ohi r h Ewh i ws hi i ws' hi I i'mr I ws o o irs h crims o h

Ui Ss h b sysmic, cos, icios,rmorsss, b ry w o h cy bo hm o h o i o mric I hsxrcis qi ciic miio o owrworwi whi msqri s rc r ir-s oo I's brii, wiy, hihy sccss

c o hyosisI o yo h h Ui Ss is wiho obh rs show o ro r, ir,scor rhss i my b b i is so ry crs ssm i is o o is ow is mos s-b commoiy is s o I's wir Lis o mric rsis o isio sy h wors, hmric o, s i h sc, I sy o hmric o i is im o ry o hrihs o h mri o I s h mrico o rs hir rsi i h cio h is boo o bh o h mric o


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's sciii srm L is c-y moy o hoh b Th wors h

mric o" roi rly oos cshioo rsr. Yo o' o hi s i bco h cshio Th cshio my b soci yoriic yor criic clis b i's rycomrb This os o ly o cors o h 40miio o ii bow h ory i h

miio m wom imriso i h s o risos which xs cross h US

Th Ui Ss o or bohrs bo owisiy coic. o or ss y oi i biric or ios s is crs o h bwiho r or or. qi simy os' i

m bo h Ui ios iriol wor criic iss which i rrs s imo irr so hs is ow bli i mb i bhi i o , h hic si Grrii

Wh hs h o or mor ssibiiy? Di

w r h y? Wh o hs wors m? Dohy rr o rm ry rrly moy hs ys coscic? coscic o o o oy wih or owcs b o o wih or shr rsosibiliy i hcs o ohrs? s is ? oo Gmo Hrs o o i wiho chrr or hr yrs wih o ll rrsio or rocss chicy i rr This oyiiim srcr is mii i c o hG Coio. is o oy olr b hryhoh bo by wh's c h iriocommi" This crimi or is bi commi by cory which crs is o b h r


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o h wor" Do w hi bo h ihbi-s o Gmo y? Wh os h mi sy

bo hm? Thy o occsioy sm imo six Ty h b cosi o o m's rom which i hy my r rr rs my r o hr sri bi rcici riish rsis o icis i hs rc-i rocrs o si or shic s

b sc yor os io yor hro Yoomi boo This is orr Wh hs h riishri Scrry si bo his? ohi. Wh hsh riish Prim Miisr si bo his? ohiWhy o? cs h Ui Ss hs si o crii-ciz or coc i Gmo y cosis

riy c Yor ihr wih s or is s Soir shs Th isio o rq ws bi c c o b

s rrorism mosri bso comr h coc o irio w Th isio ws rbirry miiry cio isir by sris o is

o is ross miio o h mi hrr o h bc; c i o cosoi mric miiry coomic coro o hMi Es msqri s s rso ohrjsicios hi i o jsiy hmss sibrio rmib ssrio o miiry rcrsosib r h h miio o hoss hoss o ioc o

W h broh orr csr bombs rim imrb cs o rom mrrmisry rio h o h Irq o c i brii rom mocrcy o hMi Es"


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How my o o yo h to ill br yoqliy to b scrib s mss mrrr wr crimil? hr thos? Mor thoh I wo h thht Thrr it is jst thtsh lir b rri br th ItrtioCrimil Cort o Jstic t sh hs b crH hs ot rti th Itrtiol Crimi Corto Jstic. Thrr i y Amric soir or rtht mttr olitici s himsl i th oc shhs wr tht h will s i th mris. t Toyir hs rti th Cort is thrr ilbr rosctio W c t th Cort h his rssi thyr itrst It is mbr 10 Dowi StrtLoo

Dth i this cotxt is irrt oth sh

ir c th wl wy o th bc brr Atlst 100000 Irqis wr i by Amric bombs missils br th Irq isrcy b Thsol r o o momt Thir ths ot xistThy r bl Thy r ot rcor s bi W ot o boy cots" si th Amric

rl Tommy rsEry i th isio thr ws hotorh b-ish o th rot o ritish wsrs o Toylir issi th ch o litt Irqi bo rtlchil" si th ctio A w ys tr thr ws story hotorh o isi o othr

ryro boy with o rms His miy h bbow by missil H ws th oy sriorWh o I t my rms bc?" h s Th storyws ro W Toy lir wst hoi him ihis rms or th boy o y othr mtit chi,or th boy o y booy cors loo is irt It


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rs yor shr wh yor mk scrsch o so

Th mrc r mbrrssmThy r rsor o hr rs h rkFrs r obrs, o of hrms w Thm ro hr bs, som fr h rs of hrs So h h m boh ro, r- ks of rs

Hr s xrc rom om by Pbo r, ImEx Fw Ths":

And one ornng a that as brnng one ornng the bonres eapt ot of the earth deorng han bengs

and fro then on re gnpoder fro then on and fro then on bood

Bandts th pans andMoors bandts th nger-rngs and dhesses bandts th bak frars spatterng bessngs ae throgh the sky to k hdren

and the bood of hdren ran throgh the streets thot fss ke hdrens boodJakas that thejakas od despse stones that the dry thste old bte on and spt ot pers that the pers od abonate Fae to fae th yo I hae seen the bood of pan toer ke a tde

to dron yo n one ae of prde and knesTreaheros generas see y dead hose ook at brokenpan:


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from every house brg mealows sead of owers from every socke of Spa

Spa emerges ad from every dead chld a re wh eyes ad from every crme bles are bor whch wl oe day d he bulls eye of your hears Ad you wll ask why does hs poery speak of dreams ad leaves

ad he grea volcaoes of hs ave ladCome ad see he bood he sreesCome ad see he blood he sreesCome ad see he blood he srees!

Lt m m it qit r tht in qoting romr's o I m in no wy comring RblicnSin to Sm ssins Irq I qot rbcs nowhr in contmorry otry h I rsch owr iscrl scriton o th bombingo ciiins.

I h si rir tht th Unit Stts is nowtotly rn bot tting its crs on th tb. Thtis th cs Its oci clr olicy is now n sll sctrm ominnc Tht is not my trm it isthirs. Fl sctrm ominnc mns control oln s ir n sc n ll ttnnt rsorcs.

Th Unit Stts now occis 70 militryinsttions throghot th worl in 132 contriswith th honorbl xction o Swn o cors on't qit now how thy got thr bt thy rthr l right


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he Unite States possesses 8 active anoperational nclear warheas wo thosan are

on hair trigger alert reay to e lanche with 5mintes warning It is eveloping new systems ofnclear frce known as nker sters he Britisheer cooperative are intening to replace their ownnclear missile rient Who I woner are theyaiming at? sama in Laen? Yo? Me? oe okes?

China? Paris? Who knows? What we o know is thatthis infantile insanity the possession an threatenese of nclear weapons is at the heart of presentAmerican political philosoph We mst remin orselves that the Unite States is on a permanent militaryfoting an shows no sign of relaxing it.

Many thosans if not millions of people inthe Unite States itself are emonstraly sickeneshame an angere y their governments actionst as things stan they are not a coherent politi-cal rce yet

Bt the anxiet ncertainty an fear

which we can see growing aily in the Unite States isnlikely to iminish

I know that Presient Bsh has many extremelycompetent speech writers t I wol like to volnteer fr the jo myself I propose the fllowing shortaress hich he can make on television to the nationI see him grave hair careflly come serios win-ning sincere often egiling sometimes employing a

wry smile criosly attractive a mans manGo is goo. Go is great. Go is goo My

Go is goo Bin Laens Go is a is is a aGo Saams Go was a except he int haveone. e was a ararian. We are not ararians Weont chop peoples heas off We elieve in freeom.


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So oes Go I m ot rri I m the emocrticly electe eer o reeomloi emocrcWe re comssiote societ We ie comssiote electroctio comssiote lethl iectio

· We re ret tio I m ot icttor He is Im ot rri He is he is They l re Iossess mor thorit Yo see this st? This is mymor thorit ot yo ret it"

writers i is hihy erle lmost ectiit We o't he to wee ot tht The writermes his choice is stc with it t it is treto sy tht yo re oe to ll the wis some othem icy iee Yo re ot o yor ow ot o lim Yo o shelter o rotectio ess yo

lie i which cse o corse yo he costrcteyor ow rotectio t co e re ecome oitici

I he rerre to eth qite w times this eeiI shl ow qote oem o my ow ce Deth"

Whee was the dead body und?Who und the dead body?Was the dead body dead whenund?How was the dead body und?Who was the dead body?Who was the athe o daughte o botheO unle o sste o mothe o sonO f the dead and abandoned body?Was the body dead when abandoned?Was the body abandoned? By whom had t been abandoned?Was the dead body naked o dessed ajouney?What made you delae the dead body dead?


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D yu ele he e y e?Hw well yu nw he e y?Hw yunw he e y ws e?

D yu wsh he e yD yu lse h s eyesD yu y he yD yu leve nneD yuss he e y

Whe we ook to mrror we thk the mge thtcofrots s s ccrte Bt moe mmetre the mge chges We re cty ookg t eereg rge of reectos Bt sometmes wrterhs to smsh the mrror r t s o the other se oftht mrror tht the trth stres t s

I eee tht espte the eormos os whch

exst chg swerg erce teectetermto s ctzes to ee the re trth ofor es or socetes s crc ogto whcheoes po s It s fct mtor

If sch etermto s ot emoe orpotc s we he o hope of restorg wht s

so ery ost to s the gty of m.


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RICHARD DAWKINS

Bin Laden 's Victry

wrote ths artcle on March 8 2003 two days before raqwas nvaded Ths s the rst tme that the orgnal versonhas been publshed n full and have delberately refnedfrom usng hndsght to change t ereadng t now can see that overestmated the permanence of the rftsn Europe TO and the U But got the eect on raqtself and the Muslm world exactly rght and my hypothetcal solloquy by Osama bn Laden need n no way bemoded. My nnuendo that no weapons of mass destructon would be found has proved correct but that was not a dcult predcton to make Blar and Bush stll nsst thatthey were honestly mstaken and actng on the best ntellgence avalable at the tme But Hans Blxs nvestgaton

was proceedng apace and was showng every ndcatonthat no weapons would turn up. Gven what we now knowof Bushs eagerness to go to war come what may and Blarseagerness to please Bush come what may thnk that accusatons of outrght lyng can farly be made

IWRTE this o th of wr ht y As lis o Sptmr 1 1939:

I st n one of he dvesO n fty second seeU ncetan and afad As the ceve hopes e pe


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Whther ths mad escapade wll end sooner (as we allmust now hope or later (as many of us far t wll

not e the end. he slamc world wll n any case eplunged nto a seethng stew of humlated resent-ment from whch generatons of martyrs" wll rseled y new Osamas he scars of enmty etweenBrtan and our erstwhle frends n Europe may takeyears to heal. NAO may never recover As fr the Nqute apart fom the corrupt spectacle of the world'sleadng power rng and ullyng small countresto had over ther votes t s mortally wounded hefragle semlance of a ruleoflaw n nternatonalaffars panstakngly ult up snce World War Is collapsng A precedent s set r any country toattack any other country t happens to dslke and s

strong enough to defeat. Who kows how ths precedent may play tself out f llowed y North Koreasrael Pakstan or Inda countres whch really dohave weapons of mass destructon?

Osama n Laden hs wldest dreams couldhardly have hoped r ths A mee eghteen months

after he oosted the Unted States to a peak of worldwde sympathy and popularty unprecedented sncePeal aror the totalty of that nternatonal goodwll has een squandered to near zero Bn Laden muste esde hmself wth glee And Allah e prased thendels are now walkg rght nto the Iraq trap.

hee was always a rsk r n Laden that hsattacks on New York and Washngton mght raseworld sympathy r the nted States therey thwartg hs longterm am of holy war aganst the GreatSata. e needn't have worred. Wth the Bush jutaat the helm a camel could have freseen the outcome


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Ad th auty s that t dosnt mattr what happs th war. mag how t looks from Ladn's

warpd pont of vwf th Amrcan vctory s swft Bush wll havdo our work fr us rovng th hatd Saddamussn wth hs scular uslamc ways and opng th way fr a dct thcracy ruld y Ayatollahsor alas Ev ttr as a war hro" th struttngswaggrg Bush may actually wn an lcton Whoca guss what h wll th gt up to and what rsntmnts h wll arous whn h ally has somthgto swaggr aout W shall hav so may martyrsvolutrg w shall run out of targts Or f thAmrca vctory s slow ad loody thgs ght ttr stll Admttdly Bush wll proaly fall n 4ad Saddam sn as a artyr ut nvr mnd hhatrd that a prolongd war gnrats wll st us upr th rsal futur vn f th Arcas lcta lss glorously usful Prsdnt ow could w havhopd fr mor

A hadful of th zalous fathful mostly Sauds

wth a fw gyptans ard oly wth oxcuttrsand dp rlgous fath sutaously comman-drd fur larg arls ad w thr of thmudsturd y ghtr arcraft or mystrously yany mdat govrnmnt attnton at all to larguldngs wth catastrophc loss of lf Pras to

Allah But mark th squl t s almost too good to tru ut as a drct consquc of ths attack thntr mght of th Utd Stats Arm Navy and ArForc s dvrtd away from us and hurld at a compltly dffrnt countr whos only concton wth


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9/ s that ts peope belog to the same ace" adego as ou gloous matys

he clam that ths wa s about weapos of massdestucto s ethe dshoest o betays a lac offesght egg o eglgece Why was t ot a ce-ta pla the platms of eoge Bush ad oyBla the especte eecto campags Netheof them metoed the wa he oly mao leadewho has a lectoal madate f hs wa polcy sthe ema chaceo ehad Schde ad he sagast t Why dd Bush, wth Bla tottg dutfulyto heel, suddely stat theateg to ade Iaq whehe dd, ad ot bee he aswe s embaassglyobous Ilogcal though t udoubtedly s, eeythgchaged o Septembe

Whatee ayoe may say about weapos of massdestucto, o about Saddam's saage butalty to hsow peope, the easo Bush ca ow get away wthhs loely wa s that a sufcet umbe of mecas(cludg, cedbly, ee Bush hmself to udge fomhs ecet addess to the ato) see t as revenge f

9/. hs s wose tha bzae It s pue acsm ad/o elgous pejudce, ge that obody has madeee a faty plausble case that Iaq had aythg todo wth the atoct It was abs that ht the Woldade Cete, ght So et's go c ab ass hose9 teosts wee Musms, ght Rght d aqs

ae Muslms, ght Rght hat does tBush seems sceey to see the wold as a battle-goud betwee ood ad E (the capta lettes aedelbeate). It s s agast hem, St Mchael's agelsagast the ces of Lucfe We'e goa smoe outthe maetes, sed a posse afte the Mdates,


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sit thm all ad lt God sot out thi souls. Midsdopd up o this kid o Good vsus Evil od-

thoogy hav a had tim distiguishig twSadda ussi ad Osama i Lad So oBushs aithul suppots v wlcom a as thcssay plud to th a showdow twGood ad Evil Amagddo llowd y th Raptu.W must psu o at last hop that Bush hislis ot quit o that oks psuasio. But h allydos sm to liv h is wstlig o Gods halagaist som sot o disodid spiit o Evil ToyBlai is o cous a o itligt ad a thaBush But his ushaka covictio that h is ightad alost vyody ls wog dos hav a ctaithological l did y Pamas wickdy

uy suggstio that h ad uya pay togthut dos Rvd Blai" too iv i Evil?

Lik si" (which I was taught was sposil al disas i th wod) ad ik to" (Bushsavouit tagt th cut Iaq distactio)vil is ot a tit ot a spiit ot a c to

opposd ad sudud Evil is a collcto o astythigs that asty popl do Th a asty popli vy cout stupid pop isa pop poplwho all sots o asos shoud v allowdto gt aywh a pow ust killig asty popdost hlp thy will siply placd W ust ty

to tailo ou istitutios ou costitutios ou c-toal systs so as to iiiz th chac that thywill is to th top I th cas o Sadda ussi wi th wst must a so guilt Th Uitd StatsBitai ad Fac hav al om ti to tim dothi it to sho up Saddam ad v am hi Ad


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docacs gh ook o o o vad s-os A hy dsgd o s ha doak dsasos saks h co o chooso o ads s' , dd, js sch a sakh has ld s o hs b ass oday

h oao of h Ud Sas s aly 300lo, cldg ay of h bsdcad, osad, os socfl, os gos, osha ol o ah By alos ay as of

cvd aa, fo obl Pcos odo, h Ud Sas lads h od by s. Yoold hk ha a coy h sch socs, adsch a d of al, old b ab o dvs a cos-o ad a coal ocd ha od sa adsh of h hghs qal Y, ha has

had? A h d of al h Pas ad PayCacss, af a h schs ad h lvsddbas, af a ya o o of oso cog bs ad baoos ad aaaa, ho, o ofha oao of 300 lo, gs a ho of h ha? Gog Bsh

0 y Aca ds, yo ko h� ch ovyo co ogv y so, b cod s b ha h s sohg a y y b ogh ha aos coso of yos? Ys, adha M Bsh obaby s' as sd as h sods,ad hav kos h ca b as sd as h ooks

ad ha os of yo dd' vo h ayay, ha s a of y o h sys by hch yoc yo Psds has b askg ob yas (ad boh, hav o go ob?)

s ay, xa, a good da ha a sglso's vo, bd d h h ag of o


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r a whol Stat can y tsl swng a full 5 votsn th Elctoral Collg on way or th othr An

s t rally snsl that mony shoul translat tslfso rctly an transparntly nto lctoral succss sothat a succssful canat ust thr vy rch orprpar to sll favours to thos who ar

hn a company sks a nw Chf ExcutvOfcr or a unvrsty a nw Vc Chancllor nor-

mous troul s takn to n th st prson avalalProfssonal hahuntng rms ay ngag wrttn rfrncs ar takn up an stu haustvrouns of ntrvws ar conuct psychologcalapttu tsts ar amnstr conntal postvvttng may vn unrtakn staks ar stllsomtms ma ut t s not r want of strnuousfrts to avo th. my Amrcan frns woulyou o usnss wth a company that vot an ntryar to lttl ls than th procss of choosng ts nwCEO from th strongst l n th worl an nup wth org Bush?

Saam ussn has n a catastroph r Iraq

ut h nvr pos a thrat outs hs mmatnghourhoo org Bush s a catastroph frth worl. An a ram r Osama n an


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HF G

he Rght to Rule Ourselves

IN lat monty pr confrnc r t nva-

on of Iraq on ruary 8 2003, Prm Mntrony Blar ad tat rmovng Saddam from powrwoud av a lot of lv" a wl a radcatng Iraquppod cmca and ologcal wapon program. popl wo wll clrat t mot wl t

popl of Iraq" Blar announcd

ar not clratng at covrng u k ndut.

day a famlar gt n Iraq of ockd

ytandr and opkpr collctng t cattrdrman of omlat vctm r ural; anotr of mn ong down pavmnt covrd wt trood Swft ural kndr and clanr tan ttnc of rapdly dcompong od pld up nmorgu wtout lctrcty watng to dntd.

A n Brtan tr wr no ucd omr n Iraqr t war Now ty trk qunt ypt all t rtorc aout uldng a nw

dmocracy" Iraq ar ucklng undr t urdn andau of t USd occupaton and t local raq ·ucontractor


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Powrss and wth no crdlty among Iraqpop th succssv ntrm govrnmnts hav na dsastr hr s no scurty and not th slghtstmprovmnt n lctrcty suppl avalalty of clanwatr mpoymnt or halth and ducaton srcs

In a land awash wth ol 16 mllon Iraqs now rlyon monthly od handouts r surva Prvatzatonthratns rmry r pulc srvcs Acut malnutrton among chdrn has dould Unmploymnt

currntly runnng at 6 pr cnt has fulld povrtcrm and prosttuton In govrnmnt corruptonand npotsm ar rampant

aly lf fr most Iraqs s stll a struggl rsurvva urng th occupaton human rghts havprovd lk wapons of mass dstructon to a

mrag ortur and ltratmnt vn of chldrn s rf

W hav wtnssd an scalaton of Israstylcollctv punshmnt" vstd on Iraq cts OnSptmr 9 24 durng th sg of th north-

rn town of l Afar US troops cut off watr andlockd od suppls to 5 rfugs r thrdays. In Samarra rsdnts cowrd n thr homsas tanks and warplans poundd th ct Bods wrstrwn n th strts ut could not colctd fr farof Amrcan snprs Of th 13 Iraqs kld thr

most wr cvans. osptal accss was dnd to thnjurd In Falluja on Novmr 5 24 NBC tvson capturd th cuton of a woundd Iraq nsda mosqu y a US Marn; ths was on of many suchmurdrs accordng to an ywtnss ntrvwd yAlazra tlvson


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poogap o a dy Iaq cayg acds ud ody aua, a dug Nov 2004 sg y U cs, s a cao copy

o ao dsssgy coc ag o Haaa Mac 1988 Bo cd w vcs o c-ca wapos s kd y a dcao wo ad ospc docacy ad ua gs scody U oops, asssd y Bs opag ud spca a o docacy w sow

g Iaqs w w pospous ad dpduau

aua poogap s ac o a acsoccupao W ad Nov 2005 a Uoops w sud y wa y ud dug aad o a sy o o udg o a

a udd psos, ay o wo appad oav uay a ad aousd. w aso pos o dad ods sowg sgs osv ou Huss Ka, dpuy os, was say sud s gd su-ps s a ac I w dspsao, ou as

coud uaad do cs, psos,caps ad sc cs Au Ga s y po cg

W U ad Bs govs av sp yas o occupao agug gay occa wapos ad ususs o ou o


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trat nrmaton, Iraqs hav n nad n adffrnt strul: to survv th nrasnly rutaloupaton, and to dn dmoray and humanrhts aordnl

Instans of olltv punshmnt, random arrstand murdr ar wdsprad On Otor 6 2005, aroup of aduts and hldrn athrd around a urntout umv on th d of th town of Ramad hrwas a ratr n th road, lft y a om that had klld

v US sodrs and two Iraq sodrs th prvousda Som of th hldrn wr payn hdandsk,othrs lauhn wh ptn th vh wth stons,whn a US 15 htr jt roard ovrhad, rn onth rowd h US mltary susquntly announdthat t had kd 70 nsurnts n ar strks, and knw

of no vlan daths. Amon th nsurnts" kdthat day wr syarold Muhammad Salh Al, whowas urd n a plast a aftr ratvs oltdwhat thy vd to parts of hs ody; uryarold Saad Ahmd uad; and hs htyarod sstr,afa, who had to urd wthout on of hr ls,

as hr famy wr una to nd ths and many othr atrots o unrordd andunaknowldd Amd a vrtual mass mda akoutn th UK, and an amost total lak of prss frdomn Iraq, our dad hav rmand namlss, falsso US or rtsh ofas, or thr pros n th var

ous Iraq ntrm ovrnmnts, hav n wn toaknowd our dad ow an thy aknowdth dath of mor than 100000 vans, most of thmwomn and hrn, wthout n hd rsponsand aountal


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Mt Iaq ae dfeet t the ptca tmetaemped y the ccupe fm the ma had-ve f veegty" t the zae theemth pedf ectaa ad ethc wagg aut the temgvemet ad the excted decaat f a ye"vte the daft cttut y deezza Rcewth hu f the at xe cg Iaq thkthe whe pce teded t dvet the attetm the ma ue the ccupat the cupt

the pagg f Iaq euce ad the tem gvemet catatphc faue huma ght

A ecet uma Rt Watch ept gave fehdeta f ttue f pe y US fce IaqAt the Mecuy mtay ae ea Fauja aue wat y veked ut ecuaged ad metme

deed he ept dece ute evee eatgf pe ad the appcat f ug chemca t detaee' eye ad k t make them gw the dak hughut Iaq thuad have eedetaed f mth metme yea wthut chage ta cudg the wte Muh aKhafaj wh

wa aeted May 2003 ad ema US cutdy uthe IaqWme ae take a htage y US de t

peuade fugtve mae eatve t uede cf t tet act Saah aha aJuma 20, mFauja wa aeted twce O Octe 8, 2005,

he wa accued f eg the daughte f Mua a-Zaqaw depte the fact that US tp had aeadydetaed he fathe a meme f a paAa pat ve tw mth O Octe 19 he wa aeted upc f eg a tet uded f pepedemtated ad wke wet tke t demad


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HAIFA ZANGANA

her release he nteror mnstry states that 122women reman n prson charge wth the novel crme

of beng potental suce bombers"Iraq journalsts are requently harasse threatene an attace by occupyng troops Snce theSle nvason ournalsts an 6 raq mea wor-ers have been lle Many ournalsts have ed thecountr

More than 100 Iraq octors an consultants havebeen lle or dnappe n the past year A spoes-person r the Iraq Mecal Socety descrbe thenappngs as ntmatng an rcng them toleave the countr"

housans of people are stll mssng her fam-les enure an agonzng wat fr wor of the fate of

ther love ones

In a letter to a fren n Europe Abul Razaq alNa' asa Bagha unversty prossor n hs 0s greve frhs lle frens an colleagues e conclue hsletter: I woner who s next!"

e wasAt 2 pm on Saturay anuary 28 2006 al Na'as

rove away rom hs ofce at Bagha nversty'sCollege of Mea. wo cars bloce hs an gunmenopene re llng hm nstantly.

Al Na' as s not the rst acaemc to be lle n the

mayhem of the new raq." undres of acaemcsan scentsts have met ths fate llowng the March2003 nvason Bagha unverstes alone mournethe llng of over 80 members of ther staff. he mnster of eucaton state recently that urng 200


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he occupaon, Mayah was ked on he onng ofJanuay 19 2004 - ony 2 hous afe he had appeaedon AlJazeea denouncng he coupon of he US-apponed Iaq Goenng Councl.

Afe he 7/7 London ongs, ony Bla po-sed he Bsh peope ha he woud ng hoseesponse o usce. In Iaq, he Bsh goenendoes exacly he oppose Innocen cs' falesae dened he gh o ng aggessos o usce, no

ae how ceay hey can e dened he aw ofoccupaon saes ha ll egn sodes, dploaso conacos pcaed n he kng of Iaq cl-ans ae une fo aes o a n Iaq.

Mas hae eplaced he dsanded Iaq ay,appyng he own ule of law hese nclude he Ian-

ased Bad Bgade, alChaa's CIAaned goup,and housands of egn ecenaes who eneedIaq afe s occupaon Ohe uns opeae unde aseance of legay: he Wof Bgade, aachedo he nsy of he neo, s nfaous seo ads on neghohoods and osques, and he

ando psonen and oue of clanshe Bsh goenen connues o un a ndeye o he oaons of huan ghs and udescoed n he nae of he wa on eo Whlespeakng n pase of deocacy, Bsh ofcas ncudng he huan ghs enoy o Iaq choose

o gnoe he Venna ecaaon on Huan ghs,whch pocas ha eocacy and espec huan ghs and fundaena feedos ae ne-dependen and uuay encng


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8 NOT ONE MORE DEAT

I a coutry o the verge of cv war a ew costtuto has ee draw up. ather tha reectg the

prortes of the Ira people t has ee created order to comply wth a mposed tmetae amed atlegtmzg the occupato der addam ussewe had a costtuto geeray descred as pro-gressve ad secular" t dd ot stop hm from rdgroughshod over huma rghts owever the sames true ow he mltas of the partes headg theterm govermet are voved day humarghtsvolatos partcular of wome's rghts wth theessg of the occupato

Most ra wome try to cope as est they cawth the predcamet of deag wth the occupatoad the rse of reactoary practces affectg ther

rghts ad way of fe r a og tme ra womewere the most lerated the Mdde East ow theed occupato has largey coed them to therhomes.

A uota system mposed y the admstratocotros womes partcpato the govermet

the atoal assemly ad the commttee appotedto wrte the costtuto ra womes hstorcastruggle agast cooal domato ad r atoaluty soca justce ad ega eualt has cose-uety ee reduced to cerg amog a hadfulof wome leaders" over omal potca posts

he sece of female Natoa Assemy memersad termgovermet ad aced wome'sNGOs s deafeg Ira dscusso of womesrghts" s a charade ocumes reeased March5 y the Amerca Cvl Lertes o hghghtmore tha a doze cases of rape ad ause of fmale


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dans hs documns rval ha no acon wasan agans any soldr or cvlan ofca and ha

US roops hav dsroyd vdnc of hs abuss nordr o avod a rpon of h bu Ghrab scanda I s no wondr ha USfundd GOs whchprach wsrnsyl womns rghs and dmocracyar rgrdd as vhcls r rgn mapuaon andar wdly dspsd and boycod.

h archcs of h occupaon hav changd hrsory afr h vdn colaps of hr Iraq projc.ow s Iraqs hmslvs who ar rsponsbl rh mayhm bcaus hy ar byond h rach ofdmocrac hy ar mlans" and nsurgns"bn on rrorzng hr own popl and dsroynghops of rconsrucon Why can hy smpy gnvolvd n h pacful dmocrac polcal procss?

Bu h Iraq pop dd parcpa and connuo do so par from armd rssanc a naurargh of naons accordng o h 1978 U gnralassmby rsoluo whch rafrmd h g-

macy of h sruggl of pops r ndpndnc . .from . . . rgn occupaon by all avalabl mansparcularly armd sruggl" many ohr rms ofrssanc ar ang plac

h raq aonal Foundaon Congrss IFCan umbrla organzaon of acadmcs crossscaran

clrcs and vran pocal ladrs s ladng hpolca rssanc hr s aso cvl and communyrssanc nvolvng mosqus womns organza-ons such as Womn's Wl humanrghs groups andunons h Souhrn Ol Company Unon whch


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50 NO ONE MORE DEAH

are lkg up wth teratoal atwar groups adatgloalzato oveets

Over the last three years there have ee protestsappeals tatves to set up a reasoale progra relectos the opeg of hua rghts ceters lecturesat uverstes eve poetrywrtg hs outpourg of actvs cotues through a road varety ofpoltcal partes groups ad dvduals who opposethe reg occupato.

Ad they have ee gored Newspapers have eeclosed edtors arrested eostrators have ee shotat arrested aused ad tortured. I auary 006,the jouralst Adul ad alZad puy accusedgoveret ltas of targetg tellectuals. Al-Zad s oe of a group of Iraq jouralsts who theafterath of the Na'as assassato wet o strke.hs group s deadg a edate vestgatoto the systeatc assassato capag" targetg tellectuals seeg t as a cocerted attept toslece ad tdate voces of opposto to theoccupato

But peaceful protest s futle the face of US torture kllg ad collectve pushet of cvlas;cosequetly support r the raq ared resstaces growg aogst the people. he occupers clasthat these ltas are largely Sadda loyalsts" orreg ghters have ee show to e false. Most

ghters Iraq are Iraqs who are outraged to see thercoutry's resources rasacked whle they lve povert drk water xed wth sewage a have o say the poltcal process he resstace s so persstetad etreched that the occupyg rces' oseratoof Falluja that We could take the cty ut we would


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HF Z 1

hav to dstroy it now applis to many towns anditis throughout raq has om ovous that

th oupation frs with thir lit marin troopssophistiatd waponry and $6ilionamonthudgt annot hod Iraq long and annot hop thatthir pitiful stoogs wil al to do so in thir pla.h only honora and ralsti way out is gnundialogu with th rai rsistan ovr a total with

drawal of rign troops and adquat ompnsationto ruid th ountrMost Iraqis iv that thy hav a right to mor

than a sman of ndpndn. h lsson historytaught us in Vitnam that stuorn national rsist-an an war down th most powrful armis is nowing larnd in Iraq.


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M C

Dreams n he Dumpse

Language Down he Dran

WE WRTERS operate on te assumpton tatlanguage matters nd ten were endlessly

slapped n te face wt edence tat t doesntActons spea louder And olent actons spea loud-est of all

ememer wen te new mllennum dawned?Language seemed to matter to a great many peopleten especally tose pedants wo conducted longdsputes n te letters pages of newspapers aoutweter te mllennum started n 2000 or 200 e

less anally retente were more effuse aout wat tenew century would mean ournalsts plosoperscurcmen and poltcans expressed ter dsmayat te saagery of te twentet century and predcted tat n te future we would e too wse toowellnrmed too damn warweary to commt suc

atroctes agan Wt te fall of te Berln Wall andte end of te Soet non tere was a lot of tal ofte supposed netalty of a more adapte carnggloalzaton seeral longrunnng cl wars n Arcaad nally ended a numer of te twentet centurysmore nfamous dctators were doddery dsgraced or


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MICHE FABER 3

th; the Irsh peace prcess seemed vale at lastand there were nuclear accrds etween the USA andRussa

Wthn a few shrt years thse same pundts weretalkng aut a very dfferent knd f new wrldrder" whch culd nly e frged y mngshtng ncarceratng and terrrzng human engsNewspapers were sputng dwardan luster autcheerng n ur rave ghtng ys Armchar strat-egss were predctng that the twentyrst centurywuld e characterzed y us" attackng a successn f unstae cuntres" n rder t render themharmless. Ol and cnstructn rms squaled vercntracts n pstwar Iraq cndent that an unprvked nvasn f an Ara state culd e led away

lke a t f paperwrk. he Brtsh Mnstry fefnce trumpeted that the Iraq adventure wuld ethe wrlds rst clean" war and that there mght wele zer" cvlan fataltes he Iraqs wuld thank uswth yful hearts fr cmng t ther rescue.

hen the war egan and dd what wars d Wh

wuldve thught that the Iraqs wuld e s resstantt eng nvaded Wh wuldve thught that a ms-sl culd pssly ht the wrng target Wh wuldethught that a crwded cty culd have nncent cvlans recklessly dwellng n t Wh wuldve thughtthat the enemy leader wuld hde n a saf place whle

hs peple suffered Wh wuldve thught that acuntry full f ereaved dsplaced harassed andmpvershed ctzens wuld ear a grudge aganst aregn ccupyng army

Where dd the smart new mllennum g


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NT NE MRE DEATH

On h of Briain's lowing h USA inowar I wro a r o ony Bair, h man whodcids whhr o spnd my a mony on hospialsor oms Anyon can wri a lr o hir had ofsa A i gir famously wro o Araham Linconand adisd him o grow a ard I didn adis onyBlair o grow a ard caus h prospc of singha manic insincr grin aming from nsid a darkmass of hair is mos unappaing Insad I adisd

him husD ar Mr Blar,

You know as w ll as do ha Saddam Huss n s x r m ly unlk ly o h or v n par ularly n on v n n d y h propos d arsrk s h r ar 22 mllon oh r, mor vun ral nhaans of raq and

h y ar h on s who wl suff r as h war d sroys h r hom s and h ir l v s A ma or y of raq s ar hldr n und r14. Thos who ar no kll d wll haror a wholy und rsandal grudg agans hos who aa k d h m, wh h w r a g n raons of rror ss n h fuur

If you ar on rn d aou how hsory wl v w you as a prm mns r, you w arn yours f gno mny f you onnu o suppor h US s war plans You wll r v r known as h Brsh prm mns r who dragg d an unwllng naon no war r an l d n d purpos a h alng of an unusuay orrup and ous Am r an pr sd n You ar a l v r man and m sur ha und rn ah h spn you ar p rf ly awar of h non sq uurs and shaky og ha hav l d us from h rrorsm of S p m r 1 1 o hs warHsory has a way of shnng a oldly raonal lgh on h v ns of h pas Hsory ooks wll d nfy your rh or and ha of Bush as olshy lg r n


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eeful bef re gog o o loguehe e rble mge o e o he worl b he wr ou ule he

I el o ou re ol le e r o

lvge our logerm re uo how our elf o be e m he e wll o u f he me he e w ll me ou gu e of o robrum

Your erel

Mhel Fbe

See how eectve language can e? I'm sure ths lettercan stll e und n ownng Sreet or perhapsslghtly behnd ownng Sreet stuck to the clammynteror of a dumpster

Mllons of words have een spent analysng whythe governments of Brtan and the S und tconvenen or compellng o wage war on Iraq (andere tha fghanstan. ow many of those wordshave had any earng on the wllngness or oherwseof young en o jon the army and ght or on hewllngness of he general pulc to tolerate her governments' actons? Very few In the case of Brtan

a onesentence headlne lke Boms could ht n45 mnues" ust aout covers t. In the US wordsweren't even requred all tha was needed was endlessly rerun TV oage of two towers eng desroyedy aeroplanes Somethng ad and scary had happened caused y ruthless enemes The US had to

strke ack The strkng was the crucal thng not thewords of ratonale

I had the msrtune recently to catch on someoneelse's T a few mnutes of Presdent Bush gvng apress conference. rave journalst dared to ask aoutthe eroson of cvl rghts by the new antterror"


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56 OT OE MORE DATH

laws Bsh ried o dont nderstand. here aread eole ot there and they want to hrt s Now

this has aways een the mlt message ehnd therhetori of governments when they want to moilze their ontry to war. Bt the message s saydressed in statstis feigned anayss seehifying a izzard of rose. Bsh jst omes ot wth it nall its infant simii Is this the rst time weve had asevenyearold oy as President of the Free ord? Oras my friend Bran Eno sggests s it more a ase of aresident assming a sevenyearod oy's inteligeneon the art of hs eletorate? I dont know how nning George Bsh really is t one thng s fr srelangage is nimortant to him e leaves that to theseehwrters and onentrates on nonveral sym

os lke osing on airraft arriers Even the fotageof him smgy laying golf whle disaster engfs theworld whih so enraged hs derators gives ota owerfl message to those who have no atienewith words and moral omlexties and lever talkhe message s were gonna kee on don what we're

doin and everything wil e OKLangage grgles down the drain the sars

from ations remain In Ferary 2003, ohn BradyKesling a memer of Bsh's Foregn Servie orsand Poitial onsellor to the Amerian emassy inGreee handed in his resignation to S Seretary of

State oin Powel. Kiesling had een a dilomat rtwenty years serving r Presidents. ith dee sadness he soke of the way Ameria was sanderng itsinternational legitima dsmanting its internationalrelatonshis sreading dsroortonate terror andonfsion in the l mind is etter of rotest was


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MCE ER 5

a masterpece of dgnty eloqent reasonng astteanalyss and most of all hmant I rge yo allto seek t ot and read t God knows wh ecasenoody rememers who the hell ohn Brady Keslngwas f they ever took note n the rst place s letterof resgnaton wonderfl and hmlng thogh t s smere words ead chldren are actons Brnng ldngs are actons ssles are actons. Checkponts andtortre cells and rotng fanatcs are actons

few years ago I wrote a novella called Bombshella dstllaton of all my rage and dsappontment overBrtan's ehavor n llowng the U nto war yplsher refsed to plsh t not ecase he dsa-greed wth ts poltcs t ecase he ddnt thnk twas good enogh I sympathze wth those aesthetcs

s t happens I dsagreed wth my plsher aot theqalty of Bombshell t I ddn't have what t took tohawk the novella to a rval plsher. I stll wondersometmes whether I dd the rght thng ght mycareflly amed lterary weapon have had an mpacton the Brtsh plc? hen I remnd myself words

don't stop wars Words are there to rng s ack toan llson of santy after wars have done ther worst.I am oth prod and ashamed to e n the sness

of artclatng that llson


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At a time when the US and UK are

contemplating further imperial adventures

in Iran, Not One More eath lays bare the

act of sta te terrorism that is the inva sion

and occupation of Iraq, and reveals the

tapestry of l ies

that

underpins it.

Prominent

musicians,

playwrights,

scientists

and writers look at how public opinion

is

wilfully ignored, and democracy used

as a f igleaf for US imperial ambitions

in the iddle

East .

Not One More eath ex am ines the record

of U S and U K troop s in Iraq, qu es tions

B ush

and B la ir s position under internationa l law,

and considers the res po ns ibil i ties of artists ,

writers and the wider public in a

time

of

w ar and occu pation.

Documents

John Le Carre, Richard Dawkins, Brian Eno, Michel Faber, Harold Pinter-Not One More Death-Verso (2006)