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Has the Nobel Peace Prize lost all credibility?
sweetpepper October 09, 2009 13:41:38
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Today (Oct 9, 2009) Barack Obama was announced as the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. He was NOMINATED for this just two weeks into his new administration this past February. Yet in his brief term in office, he has not accomplished peace anywhere. Indeed, on this day when he has been announced as the winner of this prize, he is contemplating the dedication of 40,000 new U.S. troops to the war in Afganistan.
Has the 5 person Norwegian committee who decided amongst the 200 Nobel Peace Prize nominees merely fallen for Obama-worship over actual substantive accomplishment? Does this decision lessen the credibility of the Nobel Peace Prize or it's decision-making committee of 5?
Has the 5 person Norwegian committee who decided amongst the 200 Nobel Peace Prize nominees merely fallen for Obama-worship over actual substantive accomplishment? Does this decision lessen the credibility of the Nobel Peace Prize or it's decision-making committee of 5?
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Yes it has! When little to no justification is required and the nominees fail to live up to the terms of Nobel's will, then I'd say this prize is meaningless.View thread
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Previous nominees include Hitler and Stalin.
Winners include Yassir Arifat.
It is nothing but communists kissing the asses of other communists
Psuedo-scientists like Gaia's High Priest, Al Gore, have tainted the worth of the prize.
I wonder if someone bribed the Nobel Prize Committee for this year's award? Gotta wonder.
He has done NOTHING to deserve an award...
He HAS done much to harm our country!!!!
Denis Mukwege, Medical doctor
Dr. Denis Mukwege works with patients outside the surgical ward of Panzi hospital in Bukavu, DRC. Dr Mukwege had treated 21,000 women suffering from devastating gynecological injuries as a result of rape in Congo's brutal war. He is the only gynecologist treating these wounds in the country. Oct. 14, 2008
Seeing pregnant women arrive at the hospital on a donkey and dying during childbirth encouraged Mukwege to study gynaecology and obstetrics. Noticing that so many women had been sexually abused, he later founded the Panzi hospital in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Hundreds of thousands of female sexual violence victims have been helped so far.
Handicap International and Cluster Munition Coalition
An injured boy is tied on a bed after a bus he was in was hit by a mine. Nine women and seven children are among the 30 killed in the blast. The packed bus traveling from the western city of Herat to Kandahar, Afghanistan hit a land mine in Maiwand district Tuesday. Thirty-nine people were wounded.
These organizations are recognized for their consistently serious efforts to clean up cluster bombs, also known as land mines. Innocent civil...
Denis Mukwege, Medical doctor
Dr. Denis Mukwege works with patients outside the surgical ward of Panzi hospital in Bukavu, DRC. Dr Mukwege had treated 21,000 women suffering from devastating gynecological injuries as a result of rape in Congo's brutal war. He is the only gynecologist treating these wounds in the country. Oct. 14, 2008
Seeing pregnant women arrive at the hospital on a donkey and dying during childbirth encouraged Mukwege to study gynaecology and obstetrics. Noticing that so many women had been sexually abused, he later founded the Panzi hospital in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Hundreds of thousands of female sexual violence victims have been helped so far.
Handicap International and Cluster Munition Coalition
An injured boy is tied on a bed after a bus he was in was hit by a mine. Nine women and seven children are among the 30 killed in the blast. The packed bus traveling from the western city of Herat to Kandahar, Afghanistan hit a land mine in Maiwand district Tuesday. Thirty-nine people were wounded.
These organizations are recognized for their consistently serious efforts to clean up cluster bombs, also known as land mines. Innocent civilians are regularly killed worldwide because the unseen bombs explode when stepped upon. Thirty-four nations are known to have air-dropped cluster bombs from the 1970s to the 1990s.
There is an award however that fits our Dear Leader
SNL got it right!