Peace Prize

Guess who won the Nobel Prize for peace? Not George Bush, even though he has brought democracy, prosperity and tranquility to the Middle East (while infinitely multiplying suicide bombings worldwide.) No, indeed. It was Mohammad al Baradei, the UN's Director of the International Atomic Energy Agency, who tried his best in '02 to save George's (and our) bacon with the truth: that Iraq had none, zero, zilch, "nucular" capability. But George (and his slime machine) had already planned on the re-election value of a nice little war like Daddy's, so they spent two years trying to get al Baradei fired. The Nobel committee is giving him and his people a medal and over a million dollars. When Joe Wilson blew the whistle on George's state of the union ("or whatever they call it") lie about Iraq's "nucular" activity, the same slime machine went after Wilson's wife. With any luck that whole gang of assassins will get some prizes too - like a couple of years in some federal rest home for felons.What a leader this creature Bush is! Like the scarecrow, the tin woodman and the lion, if he only had a brain, a heart and some guts he just might win a prize for something. Alas, lacking all of the above, how about impeachment?

DONALD CONNOLLY

Linwood