Monday, October 22, 2007

Give her TWO Nobels!

Nobel laureate Doris Lessing said the Sept. 11 attacks in the United States were "not that terrible" when compared to attacks by the IRA in Britain.

"September 11 was terrible, but if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible," the Nobel Literature Prize winner told the leading Spanish daily El Pais.

"Some Americans will think I'm crazy. Many people died, two prominent buildings fell, but it was neither as terrible nor as extraordinary as they think. They're a very naive people, or they pretend to be," she said in an interview published Sunday.

"Do you know what people forget? That the IRA attacked with bombs against our government; it killed several people while a Conservative congress was being held and in which the prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, was (attending). People forget," she said.

Nearly 3,000 people were killed in the Sept. 11 attacks. About 3,700 died and tens of thousands of people were maimed in more than 30 years of violence in Northern Ireland. The Irish Republican Army guerrilla group, which caused most of the deaths, disarmed in 2005.

In the El Pais interview, Lessing had sharp words for both President Bush and his ally, former British premier Tony Blair.

"I always hated Tony Blair, from the beginning," El Pais quoted Lessing as saying. "Many of us hated Tony Blair, I think he has been a disaster for Britain and we have suffered him for many years. I said it when he was elected: This man is a little showman who is going to cause us problems and he did."

"As for Bush, he's a world calamity," added Lessing. "Everyone is tired of this man. Either he is stupid or he is very clever, although you have to remember he is a member of a social class which has profited from wars."

Iran also came in for a lashing from Lessing, who was born to British parents who were living in what is now Bakhtaran, Iran.

"I hate Iran, I hate the Iranian government, it's a cruel and evil government," she was quoted as saying.

"Look what happened to its president in New York, they called him evil and cruel in Columbia University. Marvelous! They should have said more to him! Nobody criticizes him, because of oil."

The author of dozens of works from short stories to science fiction, including the classic "The Golden Notebook," Lessing won the Nobel Prize for literature earlier this month. She was praised by the judges for her "skepticism, fire and visionary power."

Let the misrepresenting begin...

17 comments:

LifeBeginsAt200MPH said...

Sounds like she'd be in perfect company with Yasser Arafat and the rest of the "winners".

ohh...and Algore is still NOT the POTUS...and never will be.

Shoes4Industry said...

LOLLB@200!

LifeBeginsAt200MPH said...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=uO9laiUXS1o

GMAB..

Shoes4Industry said...

http://tinyurl.com/3yvw59

You're going to have to do better than that GullWingGuy.

GMAFB.

Shoes4Industry said...

"Stossel urges us on the cover of his book to “get out the shovel” - he’s right, you’ll need one to dig out from the steaming piles of dishonest B.S. this ABC News “reporter” is leaving in his wake."

ROTFLMAO!!!

LifeBeginsAt200MPH said...

...and everything Algore says is to be taken as absolute gospel and fact?

Who's the one being led around by the nose here?

Shoes4Industry said...

No, but John Stossel? LOL

Shoes4Industry said...

Who will you be quoting next, Glen Beck?

Step away from the hate...

LifeBeginsAt200MPH said...

At least I'm not the one worshiping at the altar of Goredom...

Evidently you don't care about the Third World and the impact the GW NWO will have on them. Where's the compassion? Where's the rage?

Science never was your favorite subject was it?

Lee said...

What does 9/11 have to do with what happened in Northern Ireland? And who cares what she thinks? The only reason she is on this site is because she has no use for Bush and said that he was a "world calamity."

Why is she making this statement six years after 9/11? Or was this comment made long ago but you just found it in your never ending digging for anything or anyone that puts Bush in the negative.

Shoes4Industry said...

If you were concerned about The Third World, you'd be concerned about the impact of Global Warming and the crimes of the Bush Admin.

Shoes4Industry said...

We certainly don't have to "dig" very far...

LifeBeginsAt200MPH said...

So you don't care about the Third World? You don't care about the rich getting richer off the backs of the poor underclass who will be affected by the Goreons carbon credit scams?

Shoes4Industry said...

LOL@LB@200

LifeBeginsAt200MPH said...

Oh, that's right, you're one of the ones laughing all the way to the bank...

Shoes4Industry said...

You're right! (for once)

Shoes4Industry said...

So you don't care about the Third World? You don't care about the rich getting richer off the backs of the poor underclass who will be affected by the Goreons carbon credit scams?

Carbon credit "scams" are the LEAST of their problems!