And, this man is a Nobel Peace Prize Winner?

Now, he has a platform to spew his hateful lies...

Age and sickness have not wearied him. Harold Pinter used the platform of his Nobel prize for literature yesterday to call for the prosecution of George W Bush and Tony Blair for the invasion of Iraq. He called it "a bandit act, an act of blatant state terrorism".

Too unwell to travel to Stockholm to give the winner's traditional lecture in person, the 75-year-old playwright delivered his attack on American and British foreign policy to members of the Swedish Academy via a big screen in a pre-recorded 45-minute talk.

In a hoarse voice, he accused America of massacring innocent people all over the world in the name of democracy.

He asked: "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?"