Nobel Peace Prize winner wants to kill President Bush
The Dallas Morning News is reporting that Nobel Peace Prize winner Betty Williams expressed a desire to kill President Bush, or to at least remove him from office. And the Vice President. Guess she can’t wait till January 2009. From the story:
Nobel Peace Prize winner Betty Williams came from Ireland to Texas to declare that President Bush should be impeached.
In a keynote speech at the International Women’s Peace Conference on Wednesday night, Ms. Williams told a crowd of about 1,000 that the Bush administration has been treacherous and wrong and acted unconstitutionally.
“Right now, I could kill George Bush,” she said at the Adam’s Mark Hotel and Conference Center in Dallas. “No, I don’t mean that. How could you nonviolently kill somebody? I would love to be able to do that.”
About half the crowd gave her a standing ovation after she called for Mr. Bush’s removal from power.
“The Muslim world right now is suffering beyond belief,” she said.
Betty Williams, photo from wikipedia
Right now, she could kill George Bush. Nice. This at the International Women’s Peace Conference, too. She wants a non-violent means of committing a violent act. I’ll take a double-dip of selfishness and top it with a scoop of hypocrisy. Add a side of entitlement, too, would ya?
This isn’t the first time Williams has said this, either. Last year she sparked some discussion with these remarks made in Australia in front of school children at an Earth Dialogue forum:
“I have a very hard time with this word ‘non-violence,’ because I don’t believe that I am non-violent.” She went on to say, “Right now, I would love to kill George Bush”, blaming him for the deaths of children, particularly in the Middle East. “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.”
The quotes appeared in The Australian but the article is no longer available online.
Betty, once is a mistake. Twice is no accident. I believe she truly wishes for the death of this President. And, I’m curious how many other times she’s said it in front of people. To hell with Democratic procedure, rule of law and the wishes of the American people and the American legal & political system. Just get rid of him. And Cheney, too. (Is it funny or pathetic how Bush haters froth at the mouth about impeachment until someone reminds them of who would become President afterwards? Why do you think Sheehan is talking about running for Pelosi’s office? But that’s a whole other can of nuts.)