Online commentary: Leading Brazilian novelist Paulo Coelho gives praise to President Bush for the wisdom of his leadership which has united the world in opposition.
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Thank you, great leader George W. Bush.
Thank you for showing everyone what a danger Saddam Hussein represents. Many of us might otherwise have forgotten that he had used chemical weapons against his own people, against the Kurds and against the Iranians. Hussein is a bloodthirsty dictator and one of the clearest expressions of evil in today's world.

But this is not my only reason for thanking you. During the first months of 2003, you have shown the world a great many other important things and, therefore, deserve my gratitude.

So, remembering a poem I learned as a child, I want to say thank you.

Thank you for showing everyone that the Turkish people and their Parliament are not for sale, not even for 26 billion dollars.

Thank you for revealing to the world the gulf that exists between the decisions made by those in power and the wishes of the people. Thank you for making it clear that neither Jos? Mar?a Aznar nor Tony Blair give the slightest weight to or show the slightest respect for the votes they received. Aznar is perfectly capable of ignoring the fact that 90% of Spaniards are against the war, and Blair is unmoved by the largest public demonstration to take place in England in the last thirty years.

Thank you for making it necessary for Tony Blair to go to the British Parliament with a fabricated dossier written by a student ten years ago, and present this as 'damning evidence collected by the British Secret Service'.

Thank you for allowing Colin Powell to make a complete fool of himself by showing the UN Security Council photos which, one week later, were publicly challenged by Hans Blix, the Inspector responsible for disarming Iraq.

Thank you for adopting your current position and thus ensuring that, at the plenary session, the French Foreign Minister, Dominique de Villepin's anti-war speech was greeted with applause - something, as far as I know, that has only happened once before in the history of the UN, following a speech by Nelson Mandela.

Thank you too, because, after all your efforts to promote war, the normally divided Arab nations, at their meeting in Cairo during the last week in February, were, for the first time, unanimous in their condemnation of any invasion.

Thank you for your rhetoric stating that "the UN now has a chance to demonstrate its relevance", a statement which made even the most reluctant countries take up a position opposing any attack on Iraq.

Thank you for your foreign policy which provoked the British Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw, into declaring that in the 21st century, "a war can have a moral justification", thus causing him to lose all credibility.

Thank you for trying to divide a Europe that is currently struggling for unification; this was a warning that will not go unheeded.

Thank you for having achieved something that very few have so far managed to do in this century: the bringing together of millions of people on all continents to fight for the same idea, even though that idea is opposed to yours.

Thank you for making us feel once more that though our words may not be heard, they are at least spoken - this will make us stronger in the future.

Thank you for ignoring us, for marginalising all those who oppose your decision, because the future of the Earth belongs to the excluded.

Thank you, because, without you, we would not have realised our own ability to mobilise. It may serve no purpose this time, but it will doubtless be useful later on.

Now that there seems no way of silencing the drums of war, I would like to say, as an ancient European king said to an invader: "May your morning be a beautiful one, may the sun shine on your soldiers' armour, for in the afternoon, I will defeat you."

Thank you for allowing us - an army of anonymous people filling the streets in an attempt to stop a process that is already underway - to know what it feels like to be powerless and to learn to grapple with that feeling and transform it. So, enjoy your morning and whatever glory it may yet bring you.

Thank you for not listening to us and not taking us seriously, but know that we are listening to you and that we will not forget your words.

Thank you, great leader George W. Bush.

Thank you very much.

? Translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa

? Paulo Coelho is a bestselling novelist. His latest novel is Manual of the Warrior of Light, which will be published in paperback in June, and his next novel Eleven Minutes will be published in August.
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O_o

As genius as any pop-star can be. It could be worse though, we could have Michael Moore instead of Paulo Coelho

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Novelists these days.

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that was so close to being clever! he gets a dickslap right across the lips for that one.

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Originally posted by Orbax that was so close to being clever! he gets a dickslap right across the lips for that one.

Considering that his name sound like "Wood in arsehole" in Portuguese, this comment sounds even gayer than it should

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i like his book The Alchemist

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So, remembering a poem I learned as a child, I want to say thank you.

I hate random shit like this where they act as if everyone knows what poem hes talking about.

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"If you take the simplest, crudest notion of self-consciousness, I suppose that would be the sort of self-consciousness that a lobster has: When it`s hungry, it eats something, but it never eats itself. It has some way of distinguishing between itself and the rest of the world, and it ahs a rather special regard for itself."
Daniel Dennett

You still wont deny that his bestselling fable "The Alchemist" IS just a masterpiece comparable to great works of world literature such as "The little prince".

Also, have a look at the columns by Coelho in his online magazine "Warrior of the light". Then tell me if your are still keen on being satirical about this author.

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Let's put it this way:

There's no such thing as "bad art". There are products for specified goals. There's McDonalds, which is food for mass consumption. There's pop music, which is easy music. And, in this area, there's Paulo Coelho and his literature skills.

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Originally posted by mongeone So, remembering a poem I learned as a child, I want to say thank you. I hate random shit like this where they act as if everyone knows what poem hes talking about.

I believe it's a popular poem here... I remember seeing a similar work when I was younger. Maybe that's why I thought the text was predictable.

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Originally posted by Lira Let's put it this way: There's no such thing as "bad art". There are products for specified goals. There's McDonalds, which is food for mass consumption. There's pop music, which is easy music. And, in this area, there's Paulo Coelho and his literature skills.

So Paulo Coelho is like pop-philosophy in Brazil?

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yar good stuff, but dont tell my LPO i said that.

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