IAEA Wins Nobel Peace Prize

[Sphexi]

Suck it Bono...someone really deserving won.

The Nobel Committee recognized ElBaradei and the U.N. nuclear agency "for their efforts to prevent nuclear energy from being used for military purposes and to ensure that nuclear energy for peaceful purposes is used in the safest possible way."

"At a time when disarmament efforts appear deadlocked, when there is a danger that nuclear arms will spread both to states and to terrorist groups, and when nuclear power again appears to be playing an increasingly significant role, IAEA's work is of incalculable importance," it said in a statement.

I think this was a good idea on several levels. Obviously they picked someone(s) like this because it was the 60th anniversary of Hiroshima/Nagasaki this year, and they tend to pick anti-nuke campaigners during anniversary years, but also they picked someone who has a level head and knows how to be gracious. God only knows what Bono would've gone off on if he had won and been given his little soapbox. I have a lot of respect for this guy for this:

After the award was announced, ElBaradei refrained from criticizing the United States in comments to Associated Press Television News and two other media outlets.

"I don't see it as a critique of the U.S." he said Friday. "We had disagreement before the Iraq war, honest disagreement. We could have been wrong, they could have been right."

Instead, ElBaradei said, the honor was "a message ? 'Hey guys, you need to get your act together you need to work together in multinational institutions.'"

The award also was a signal "going to the Arab world, going to the Western world that we ... have a lot in common and we need to work together to survive," ElBaradei said.

There needs to be more guys like him out there.

 

[maddogchen]

Nobel Peace Prize is overrated.

 

[Britboy]

Bono is a tool, if he wins the Nobel prize it will cease to have any value:disgust:

 

[Riceball]

The current adminstration wanted ElBaradei removed from his post not too long ago.

 

[Sphexi]

Originally posted by: Riceball
The current adminstration wanted ElBaradei removed from his post not too long ago.

Yeah I know, and now they're being all nice to him 🙂...life is funny that way.

 

[yllus]

The Peace Prize jumped the shark when they gave one to Arafat.

 

[ShotgunSteven]

For a second I misread the title as IKEA, and I thought, "Oh great, first Bono, now this!"