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• Thursday, December 15, 2005 09:36 AM

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  I can't help wondering whether Senator Lieberman will read any of these. I sent him an e-mail message, asking him to read Harold Pinter's Nobel Acceptance Lecture to correct his rosy picture of what is happening and has happened in Iraq, but I don't live in Connecticut, so the automated answer I received told me that the senator doesn't read any e-mail except that which comes from Connecticut residents. It's a small world he lives in. If he's that provincial, I wish he'd stop making sweeping pronouncements about U.S. foreign policy.

  I invite any of my fellow letter writers, and the author of "Jolting Joe" to read Pinter's lecture, which shows that our credibility in the world at large has been trashed by our unilateral aggression against other sovereign nations, our wanton murder of over 100,000 Iraqi citizens ( I know, Bush said 30,000, but the rest of the world says 100,000 not including Fallujah), and our barbarous kidnap and torture of prisoners, some of whom did nothing but stand in the wrong place when our CIA happened to have a "hunch" about them. Pinter rightly points out that the crimes of the United States (and complicity of Great Britain) extend well beyond the Middle East, as our covert and not so covert actions in Central and South America have shown. Pinter's lecture, text and video, can be found here:

  http://nobelprize.org/literature/laureates/2005/pinter-lecture.html

  Read it, please, and see why so many Democrats can't find it in their hearts and minds to support George Bush OR Joe Lieberman. Oh, yes, and would someone who lives in Connecticut please forward this letter to the good senator? Thanks.

  —Marty Carpenter Read Marty Carpenter's other letters
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