{"id":50,"date":"2007-07-12T12:38:40","date_gmt":"2007-07-12T17:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kim.thewei.com\/20070712\/nobel-laureate-calls-for-removal-of-bush\/"},"modified":"2013-12-13T08:15:33","modified_gmt":"2013-12-13T13:15:33","slug":"nobel-laureate-calls-for-removal-of-bush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/nobel-laureate-calls-for-removal-of-bush\/","title":{"rendered":"Nobel laureate calls for removal of Bush"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nobel Peace Prize winner Betty Williams came from Ireland to Texas to declare that President Bush should be impeached.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

“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.”<\/p>\n

About half the crowd gave her a standing ovation after she called for Mr. Bush’s removal from power.<\/p>\n

“The Muslim world right now is suffering beyond belief,” she said.<\/p>\n

“Unless the president of the United States is held responsible for what he’s doing and what he has done, there’s no one in the Muslim world who will forgive him.”<\/p>\n

When an audience member told Ms. Williams that Vice President Dick Cheney would become president if George Bush were impeached, she said, “Can’t you impeach them both?”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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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 … <\/p>\n

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