Peace prize winner 'could kill' Bush

The Australian ^ | 25 July 2006 | Annabelle McDonald

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Peace prize winner 'could kill' Bush Annabelle McDonald 25jul06

NOBEL peace laureate Betty Williams displayed a flash of her feisty Irish spirit yesterday, lashing out at US President George W.Bush during a speech to hundreds of schoolchildren.

Campaigning on the rights of young people at the Earth Dialogues forum, being held in Brisbane, Ms Williams spoke passionately about the deaths of innocent children during wartime, particularly in the Middle East, and lambasted Mr Bush.

"I have a very hard time with this word 'non-violence', because I don't believe that I am non-violent," said Ms Williams, 64.

"Right now, I would love to kill George Bush." Her young audience at the Brisbane City Hall clapped and cheered.

"I don't know how I ever got a Nobel Peace Prize, because when I see children die the anger in me is just beyond belief. It's our duty as human beings, whatever age we are, to become the protectors of human life."

Ms Williams was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 30 years ago, when she circulated a petition to end violence in Northern Ireland after witnessing British soldiers shoot dead an IRA member who was driving a car. He veered on to the footpath, killing two children from one family instantly and fatally injuring a third.

Ms Williams's petition had tens of thousands of Protestant and Catholic women walking the streets together in protest. Now the former office receptionist heads the World Centres of Compassion for Children International, a non-profit group working to create a political voice for children.

"My job is to tell you their stories," Ms Williams said of a recent trip to Iraq.

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BDR..........

[My2Cents]

Speachless

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Ah yes, more tolerance from the enlightened Left.

[new yorker 77]

I smell moth balls.

[dirtboy]

My job is to tell you their stories," Ms Williams said of a recent trip to Iraq.

More like their lies. And hers.

[karnage]

Nobel Peace Prize... kill George Bush. Works for me.

[Lorianne]

You can't make this stuff up!

[BerniesFriend]

"Right now, I would love to kill George Bush."

Sounds like a dem..

[marvlus]

Ms Williams's petition had tens of thousands of Protestant and Catholic women walking the streets together in protest.

I'd like to see her do this with Muslims and Jews.

[Edgerunner]

"Right now, I would love to kill George Bush."

What a good example to our kids. The Secret Service is already tracking this one I'll bet...

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[GunnyHartman]

It's simple...she just Can't Understand Normal Thinking.

[freedomson]

Silly, old woman.

Australia has been slated for conquest.

[Vision]

Betty Williams displayed a flash of her feisty Irish spirit yesterday..."Right now, I would love to kill George Bush." Her young audience at the Brisbane City Hall clapped and cheered.

Romanticizing a threat against the President. I don't think it is possible for me to hold more contempt for MSM.

[Sax]

Sounds like she should have been awarded with the NOBEL APPEASEMENT PRIZE instead.

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[AdvisorB]

Yet another leftist peacenik. One of the make love not war hypocrites. They are not for peace, they're for the other side. The side that is battling the detested capitalism that the left abhors. They would make a pact with Satan in order to destroy the system that has given us the most ecomomic prosperity and personal freedom in human history...capitalism.

[oldleft]

Par for the Nobel Peace Prize course. Consider Arafat and ElBaradei. One was a terrorist who killed thousands and the other got the prize for stopping nuclear proliferation (and what a whiz-bang job he did.)

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