Posted on 07/24/2006 9:43:51 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
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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No mention of wanting hezbollah dead for killing innocent Israeli children; or of Saddam dead for killing innocent Kurdish children; of saddamite insurgents for murdering innocent Iraqi children in the marketplaces?
The Nobel Prizes are going to political hacks and have been for a while.
This woman is a sub-moronic twit.
The only prize she should have won is the booby prize for logic and reasoning.
And did either of them question or critcize the IRA for killing innocent people, or were they only concerned about the British Army killing terrorists?
That woman should have been escorted from the building immediately.
Ms. Williams,
After reading that you are not non-violent and would like to kill George Bush I wondered if you held similar ire toward Hizballah terrorists currently firing rockets indiscriminately into northern Israel in order to kill Israeli children? How about those murdered by Saddam Hussein, including hundreds, maybe thousands of Kurdish children killed with chemical weapons? Do you feel like killing Saddam also? How about the murderers employed by the government of Sudan who continue to butcher men, women and children because they are either Christians or black Muslims? Would you like to kill Sudanese President Omar Hasan Ahmad al-Bashir?
If you do feel like killing these other leaders when will you stand up and say so? The world is waiting to hear just how homicidal a Nobel Peace Laureate can be.
I think these lefties don't really hate Bush. They have an obsessive crush on him, and their middle-school mentality makes them lash out at their unrequited love. It's truly pathetic. Don't they have anything better to do?
OMG...she looks just like Betty Broderick!
God made irony just for conservatives!
Pretty women are generally resented by other women. In this case, responsible leaders suffer a similar fate in the eyes of the inept left.
Hey Betty, their were Iraqi children raped, tortured and murderded by Saddam and his henchmen. That went on for decades cause hysteric arrogant fools like you looked the other way or attack anyone who tried do something about it. After 9-11 your psuedo moralizing posturing is exapose as the utter fraud it is. You are willing accomples to Mass Murder before and after the fact Betty. You are the worst sort of Terrorist Appeaser.
You are no moralist giant Betty. You are an empower of evil and a total moral coward.
Protect the children? What about the 16 year old girl just hung in Iran? What about girls being sexually mutilated? What about the 2 young gay boys executed under sharia law? War is terrible but sometimes necessary. This war is being fought for the very reason you're talking about, to protect future children from islamic tyrants. Socialists, always on the wrong side of a fight.
"Is that what they call it? "feisty Irish spirit"?"
Actually, this is a pretty good example of how most of the Irish in Ireland feel. People in this country who tout and cling to their Irish heritage should wake up to the fact for the most part they hate us almost as much as the islamorats. What a shame.
Wow, she sure does deserve the Nobel Peace Prize, along with a .44 slug right between her screwy eyeballs.
Careful! With that sort of talk, you might find yourself winning a Nobel Peace Prize!
The most disturbing part of the excerpt that I read was the "clapped and cheered" part. Just what is this "Earth Dialogues" thing?
http://education.qld.gov.au/earthdialogues/
Brisbane Festival 2006 Earth Dialogues
Queensland schools can be part of a major international event! [And cheer on threats made against President Bush!]
Brisbane Festival 2006 is proud to host Earth Dialogues Brisbane 2006, a major international forum chaired by Mikhail Gorbachev, Chair of Green Cross International and former President of the Soviet Union , and Premier Peter Beattie.
You can bet if Bill Kirington did the exact same thing in Iraq, she would be praising him to the gills.
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