Bush and Blair nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

[BugsBunny1078]

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Start a war win a peace prize?
Apparently Adolf Hitler was in the running for the coveted award back in 1938 also. Hmmm.

 

[Insane3D]

Fixed Link

Nobel watchers say Bush or Blair's chances of winning are close to nil.

 

[glugglug]

R

 

[sandorski]

Just proves that some people still have a sense of humour.

 

[Witling]

Hey, give them a little credit. The pretty much united the rest of the world against us.

 

[mfs378]

Originally posted by: Witling
Hey, give them a little credit. The pretty much united the rest of the world against us.

This is true.

 

[alchemize]

After Arafat won, I think anything is possible.

 

[Czar]

Originally posted by: alchemize
After Arafat won, I think anything is possible.

and if people would bother learning why he got the price... or thats too much to ask

 

[dahunan]

Originally posted by: Czar

Originally posted by: alchemize
After Arafat won, I think anything is possible.

and if people would bother learning why he got the price... or thats too much to ask

He has been a Terrorist his whole life.. what did he "honestly" do that was so worthy of the prize?

In Cairo, before he was seventeen Arafat was smuggling arms to Palestine to be used against the British and the Jews. At nineteen, during the war between the Jews and the Arab states, Arafat left his studies at the University of Faud I (later Cairo University) to fight against the Jews in the Gaza area. The defeat of the Arabs and the establishment of the state of Israel left him in such despair that he applied for a visa to study at the University of Texas. Recovering his spirits and retaining his dream of an independent Palestinian homeland, he returned to Faud University to major in engineering but spent most of his time as leader of the Palestinian students.

He did manage to get his degree in 1956, worked briefly in Egypt, then resettled in Kuwait, first being employed in the department of public works, next successfully running his own contracting firm. He spent all his spare time in political activities, to which he contributed most of the profits. In 1958 he and his friends founded Al-Fatah, an underground network of secret cells, which in 1959 began to publish a magazine advocating armed struggle against Israel. At the end of 1964 Arafat left Kuwait to become a full-time revolutionary, organising Fatah raids into Israel from Jordan.

It was also in 1964 that the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) was established, under the sponsorship of the Arab League, bringing together a number of groups all working to free Palestine for the Palestinians. The Arab states favoured a more conciliatory policy than Fatah's, but after their defeat by Israel in the 1967 Six-Day War, Fatah emerged from the underground as the most powerful and best organised of the groups making up the PLO, took over that organisation in 1969 when Arafat became the chairman of the PLO executive committee. The PLO was no longer to be something of a puppet organisation of the Arab states, wanting to keep the Palestinians quiet, but an independent nationalist organisation, based in Jordan.
http://www.nobel.se/peace/laureates/1994/arafat-bio.html

 

[LunarRay]

The Press got it wrong, as usual... the nominator clearly checked the Economics box and there was a smudge in the Peace box.. but, one is as good as another and fitting.. equally fitting as would be the Prize for Physics.. Either of the three prizes these two are equally fit to be nominated for.. and don't you think the nominators had justification in mind for the political morass The President and Prime Minister are laboring out of..?

 

[NightCrawler]

They should get a medal for kicking Saddam ass !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[NightCrawler]

Originally posted by: BugsBunny1078
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Start a war win a peace prize?
Apparently Adolf Hitler was in the running for the coveted award back in 1938 also. Hmmm.

puuuuuuleaase...hitler was an evil person who wanted to take over other countries, Bush and Blair just wanted to toppel Saddam and give Iraq a chance at a decent future.

 

[LunarRay]

Originally posted by: NightCrawler

Originally posted by: BugsBunny1078
[L]http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1068699/posts[/L]
Start a war win a peace prize?
Apparently Adolf Hitler was in the running for the coveted award back in 1938 also. Hmmm.

puuuuuuleaase...hitler was an evil person who wanted to take over other countries, Bush and Blair just wanted to toppel Saddam and give Iraq a chance at a decent future.

Moot point.. the award was not available back in '38.
I guess motive is important.. but, outcome should be factored into the mix. Well.. so should the noncombatant losses adjusted to reflect the technological advances that should have reduced the losses of folks simply farming... or living.. or former living farmers.

 

[BugsBunny1078]

Originally posted by: LunarRay

Originally posted by: NightCrawler

Originally posted by: BugsBunny1078
[L]http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1068699/posts[/L]
Start a war win a peace prize?
Apparently Adolf Hitler was in the running for the coveted award back in 1938 also. Hmmm.

puuuuuuleaase...hitler was an evil person who wanted to take over other countries, Bush and Blair just wanted to toppel Saddam and give Iraq a chance at a decent future.

Moot point.. the award was not available back in '38.
I guess motive is important.. but, outcome should be factored into the mix. Well.. so should the noncombatant losses adjusted to reflect the technological advances that should have reduced the losses of folks simply farming... or living.. or former living farmers.

according to the nobel site the award was given out every year since 1901


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[LunarRay]

Originally posted by: BugsBunny1078

Originally posted by: LunarRay

Originally posted by: NightCrawler

Originally posted by: BugsBunny1078
[L]http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1068699/posts[/L]
Start a war win a peace prize?
Apparently Adolf Hitler was in the running for the coveted award back in 1938 also. Hmmm.

puuuuuuleaase...hitler was an evil person who wanted to take over other countries, Bush and Blair just wanted to toppel Saddam and give Iraq a chance at a decent future.

Moot point.. the award was not available back in '38.
I guess motive is important.. but, outcome should be factored into the mix. Well.. so should the noncombatant losses adjusted to reflect the technological advances that should have reduced the losses of folks simply farming... or living.. or former living farmers.

according to the nobel site the award was given out every year since 1901


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You are correct. I meant to say the award was not available back in '38 to individuals. From '38 through '44 no one received it but, the funds were disbursed to charities of some sort or another. I see the link now and will amend if I'm not correct with the dates..