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."
Williams could not be reached for comment on the deaths of children under Saddam Hussein's regime, the routine beatings and stonings the Taliban inflicted on the female population of Afghanistan, the deaths of Israeli women and children at the hands of Hezbollah/Hamas suicide bombers or the deaths of Muslim women and children who are routinely used as human shields by terrorists fighting for theocracy and oppression.
Not that she would comment on those things since, you know, Bush and his foreign policies are the real problem in the world.
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