I am appalled.

Peace prize winner 'could kill' Bush

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.

She goes on the explain how the US and UN killed Iraqi children due to the embargoes during the Hussein regime.  No mention of any mass graves or reasons for the embargo though.  Or even if these types of goods were kept by the regime for their own use or for sale on the black market. 

Speaking of embargoes, everyone talks about how Bush's war in Iraq has made things so much worse than the status quo ante.  Tens of thousands, maybe even a hundred thousand Iraqi civilians have died.  Notwithsatnding the fact that they are mostly killing each other and I feel the blame should be placed on the killers, UN estimates show that between 500,000 and 1.2 million children died during the years of the sanctions in the 1990s.   I blame those deaths squarely on the shoulders of Saddam Hussein and his cronies, but that being said, whose policies resulted in more Iraqi death and suffering?  Bush's or Clinton's?  I know what the media leads us to believe.