Nobel laureates ask youth to push peace

[deadparrot]

DENVER - Nobel Peace Prize laureates criticized the United States and the Bush administration Friday as they kicked off a conference dedicated to promoting peace and calling the world's youth to action.

"The rest of the world needs America, but it doesn't need the current model it is getting," said Mairead Maguire, a 1976 Peace Prize recipient from Northern Ireland.

The nine laureates criticized the United States for invading Iraq and Afghanistan, failure to engage al-Qaida in dialogue, failure to support conventions recognizing the rights of children, continued military spending and failure to open markets to developing nations.

They also cited racism and hate, extreme poverty and unequal access to water and other resources among problems standing in the way of peace between countries.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060916/ap_on_re_us/peacejam

[stellanoir]

1. Wows. . . enlightened voices of reason. . .

for a change.

[OwnedByFerrets]

2. Being Prez dont require smart.......

being the leader of the free world, does.

[kath]

3. I noticed that Jimmy Carter is not among the Peace Prize Laureates

attending, which is too bad.

A list of the laureates is here:
http://www.du.edu/peacejam/profiles/index.html