Nobel Winner Criticizes US Invasion of Iraq, Prison Abuse

Dow Jones | 5/10/05 | AP Staff

[muawiyah]

She's just saying that because here buddies, the ayatollahs, want to move in on Iraq the second we're gone!

[BunnySlippers]

I don't know how to produce a live link ... but it sure is a switch from earlier stories. Maybe her friends at Harvard and other American universities have gotten to her. But here's the URL:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1003146/posts

[vandykelastone]

ANyone who would accept a nobel prize is not anyone we need to be listening to - and a foreigner, no less! And a moslem into the bargain! And a woman! This just gets better and better.

[dead]

She wants freedom and democracy for Iranians, not Iraqis.

[Spotsy]

Arafat has a Nobel Peace Prize. Need I say more?

[edhammond]

Well, hell....who doesn't condemn it? It's not torture, but it sure as heck isn't what we train our soldiers to do, and it sure isn't in keeping with what we believe. We're better than they are---that's why we're America, for God's sake!

[edhammond]

Well, hell....who doesn't condemn it? It's not torture, but it sure as heck isn't what we train our soldiers to do, and it sure isn't in keeping with what we believe. We're better than they are---that's why we're America, for God's sake!

[G.Mason]

Wow!

Who wudda thunk?

Or in my best "Nobel" speech ... Why that is simply amazing. Who would have remotely considered that happening?

[edhammond]

Sorry for double post...got carried away! :)

[theDentist]

Dear Shirin,

How 'bout a nice cup of "Shut the **** Up"?

sincerely,

theDentist

[Reelect President Dubya]

The cycle of the bogus "torture" story is almost complete.

Soon even Al Franken and his wife Michael Moore won't be able to keep a straight face when they lie about it.

[Spok]

I quit reading after "Nobel Winner..."

[The Scourge of Yazid]

Arafat, Peres, that hippie chick who wanted to ban landmines. From Vermont, I think? This isn't exactly a badge of honor if you ask me.

If Stockholm wants to bestow an honor on some people who are really doing something to combat fanaticism, oppression and tyranny they should designate the thousands of political prisoners now rotting in jail as the next recipients of a Nobel Peace Prize.

[Red Badger]

I wonder what she thought of the Daniel Pearl Decapitation Video?............Just some guys having too much fun?..........

[fedupwithlibs]

The Nobel Peace award is turning into a joke. It should be the Nobel appeasement award.

Here is a list of past winners. This should put the award in perspective:

2002 Jimmy Carter
2001 United Nations, Kofi Annan
1994 Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres, Yitzhak Rabin
1993 Nelson Mandela
1990 Mikhail Gorbachev
1988 United Nations

Nowhere on the list do I see Ronald Reagan. In fact, Gorbachev was the one recognized for his efforts in ending the cold war.

[OldFriend]

I thought the article was going to be by Jimmy Carter!

[lilylangtree]

Read in Sunday's Parade (May 9, 2004) Intelligence Report by Lyric Wallwork Winik entitled Afghani Women Still Struggle

Yes, life is better for many women in Afghanistan without the abuses of the Taliban. But they still face grievous threats. Human Rights Watch says soldiers and police frequently attack women. In some areas, women are afraid to leave their homes to do more than gather water because of widespread kidnapping and robbery. Armed bandits will rob a man driving a pregnant woman to the hospital. "They may be robbed even with the woman in labor--the gunmen are that uneducated," says residents of Paghman, outside Kabul. (Even without bandits, one in six Afghani women dies in childbirth, says UNICEF. Infant-mortality rates also are among the world's worst.) Human Rights Watch reports that women worry about the future and fear that the protections of their rights could worsen, since many of the warlords who ruled under the Taliban have returned to power.

Considering that she was honored by a questionable award for her advocacy of human rights and democracy in her homeland, Ebadi should concentrate her efforts to speak out for Afghani women instead of murderous islamics who would rather stick a knife or shoot a coalition member if given a chance.

[The Scourge of Yazid]

Not only Afghanistan of course, but it is one of the most volatile places in that region of the world. She could also put a spotlight on the purdah in neighboring Pakistan, the honor killings that still have not been banned in Jordan or better yet, the continuous denial of rights to women in her own backyard on a daily basis.

Why is it that she can accept the Peace prize with a bare head in Europe but has to wear a veil in her native country? Once she answers that question, I think that we'll have more respect for her point-of-view on these matters.

[LexBaird]

How 'bout a nice cup of "Shut the **** Up"?

sincerely,

theDentist

Comin' right up!