Posted on 09/17/2006 8:04:11 PM PDT by FlyVet
Nobel Peace Prize Winners Take Aim at U.S.
By CHASE SQUIRES, AP
DENVER (Sept. 17) - Ten Nobel Peace Prize laureates chbishop called for world peace and took aim at U.S. policy makers, asking an enthusiastic crowd of 7,000 youth to demand that the United States pull back its military, spread its wealth and offer aid to developing countries.
The Archbishop Desmond Tutu had stern words for the Bush administration. "Then how can you commit Guantanamo Bay? Take back your country," he said.
Only the Dalai Lama, whose speech at the three-day PeaceJam convention at the University of Denver was interrupted when a fire alarm went off, did not take a direct jab at the U.S.
"After the painful events of September 11, I wish that America would have built a school in Afghanistan in the name of every victim," said Shirin Ebadi, an Iranian judge and 2003 Peace Prize recipient. "When someone claims he has a vision from God to bring war to Iraq, this is a kind of terrorism."
The Dalai Lama called on the world to open itself to religious tolerance.
PeaceJam, a Colorado-based program in its 10th year, hosts conventions around the world, bringing teenagers together with Nobel laureates to talk about what they can do to promote peace.
Founders Dawn Engle and Ivan Suvanjieff say the interaction between the teens and laureates can build a generation that will tackle the big issues of poverty, disease and war.
One after the other Saturday night, the laureates called on Americans to do something about their government's foreign policy. From efforts to close the border with Mexico to Iraq to arms exports, the Nobel laureates had words for the U.S. government.
"Stand up. Take action," said Jody Williams, the 1997 recipient for her work opposing land mines, and the only American to take the stage. "Don't try to bring democracy to people you don't understand through the barrel of a gun and leave them with civil war."
The Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who praised the U.S. for its fight against South Africa's apartheid and its history of justice and democracy, also had stern words for the Bush administration.
"You taught us no government worth its salt can subvert the rule of law. We believed you," he said. "That's part of what you have as a gift for the world. Then how can you commit Guantanamo Bay? Take back your country."
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Let us know how much is enough.
The Archbishop Desmond Tutu had stern words for the Bush administration. "Then how can you commit Guantanamo Bay? Take back your country," he said.
No mention of Muslim atrocities?
Tutu? So-So.
And this is suppose to be news to us??
Ivy league students no doubt.
Hehehe, if not for the US and a leader named, uh, Bush (among others), Archbishop Desmond Tutu would be rotting in jail right now. But the US is terrible, right, Desmond?
Too bad Nobel Peace Prize Winner Yasser Arafat was unavailable for comment.
Ignoble Prize winners, Jimmah Cahtah and his pal, Yasir Imfat have been doing this for years. Nothing new.
What a disgusting lot of fools- these people would have been very supportive of Hitler in the 1930's.
In other words, a bunch of little non-working, non-taxpaying, snot-nosed, young skulls full of mush. Great audience!
The Dalai Lama has no room to talk about how a nation should defend itself.
Yawn... NEXT!
And yet we win again.
"What a disgusting lot of fools- these people would have been very supportive of Hitler in the 1930's."
Yup, he favoured gun control, make-work projects, the false logic of "Full Employment", and a series of cradle-to-grave services.
Was Betty Williams there? She is the "peaceful" one who wants to kill President Bush.
Is this a demographic issue? A whole generation of the 60's who are so stupid to believe that if you just "want" "peace", you can have it just by saying so? That words alone will bring "peace".
Are there really that many stupid people in the world or all they just dupes? Do they really believe all this twaddle?
What ever happened to reality?
Don't you mean Sheehan? ;^)
I wish the towelheads would have built a school in Afghanistan in the name of every victim THEY MURDERED. Where is THEIR accountability???? WE didn't kill anybody!
PeaceJam, a Colorado-based program in its 10th year, hosts conventions around the world, bringing teenagers together with Nobel laureates to talk about what they can do to promote peace.
I'd like to see a "HateJam" or "WarJam" that brings teenagers together with military folks and mercenaries to talk about what they can do to kill our enemies and promote death and destruction. You know, something to balance the scale and get us back to the real world where butterfiles don't drop cotton candy from rainbows.
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