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To: epicure who wrote (9465)	7/25/2006 12:48:07 AM
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Heh! Heh! So your clear & unequivocal denouncement was your lame moral equivalence straw man? I should have figured as much. I guess I'm just not liberal or nuanced enough to see that as a genuine denouncement. Seriously, the bulk of your alleged "denouncement" is spent defending your peers & pointing fingers at your opponents. Some "denouncement" indeed.

To: epicure who wrote (9465)	7/25/2006 12:52:42 AM
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Let's see if this is worthy of a genuine, straightforward denouncement sans moral equivalence, nuance, straw men or pointing fingers at your opponents. Want A Nobel Peace Prize? Then Just Threaten To Kill President Bush By Bomb Truck on Politics Ankle Biting Pundits If you want any evidence that the Nobel Peace Prize is less about real achievement and more about who can do the best job of slamming the U.S., you need look no further than the comments from Betty Williams, who does her best to show just how “peaceful” leftists really are: <<< 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. “We went to a hospital where there were 200 children; they were beautiful, all of them, but they had cancers that the doctors couldn’t even recognise. From the first Gulf War, the mothers’ wombs were infected. “As I was leaving the hospital, I said to the doctor, ‘How many of these babies do you think are going to live?’ “He looked me straight in the eye and said, ‘None, not one’. They needed five different kinds of medication to treat the cancers that the children had, and the embargoes laid on by the United States and the United Nations only allowed them three.” Wrapping up the three-day forum yesterday, delegates agreed to a 26-point action plan. “There can be no sustainable peace while the majority of the world’s population lives in poverty,” they said. “There can be no sustainable peace if we fail to rise to the global challenge presented by climate change. “There can be no sustainable peace while military spending takes precedence over human development.” >>> Now, what I find truly disturbing about this is the fact that her audience applauded her display of Bush Derangement Syndrome. Think about it: Ms. Williams says she’d like to kill the leader of the free world, and it gets cheers. Someone ought to ask Congressional democrats if they think such hate speech against the President is acceptible behavior for a Nobel Laureate (although I’m pretty certain they would run and hide under the ‘free speech’ excuse). anklebitingpundits.com theaustralian.news.com.au