Man talk about fighting for peace...

The Australian runs a piece this week saying that the Noble peace laureate Betty Williams 'could kill' Goerge W. Bush.

Just when you thought you'd heard it all.

Actually, her speech, delivered in front of a group of school children, was a very impassioned plea to preserve human life. Just look:

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."

I actually kind of love her a bit for having the courage to say something like that but I am sure that she is off the christmas card list at he White House this year. I don't advocate violence of any kind, much less against a sitting president but there comes a point that the policies of a few endanger the many. I believe that the oligarchy on power in DC is dangerous in that way.

Here in the US we have abetter way to handle our political difficulties though. It's called elections.

Ok this is really creepy...

BAGnewsNotes leads us where it's all sunshine and roses. That's right to the Israel/Lebanon border where the unthinkable is happening every day now and where the IDF is apparently pimping out 10 year old girls for PR. This images says it all.

I have a certain interest in all of this mideast hullabaloo. My best friend has a fiancee in Lebanon and through her talking about him with me I feel like I have family there. He and his family are scared. They are non combatants and they are living in constant fear. It has been unbearable for my friend and so it has become for me too. To make light of the uncertainty and cruel nature of war in general is disgusting to me but to use children to do it is just downright creepy. C'mon people! I don't need to be reminded how we Americains sometimes choose allies who are one the wrong side of human decency. I really don't.