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WTF... are they still on the list.
E.T
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in Zocalo v2.0
News magazine had little about schedule of Nobel prices and it seems that Bush&Blair are still candidates for peace prize.
If this continues they might nominate Hitler and Stalin as next year's candidates.
If this continues they might nominate Hitler and Stalin as next year's candidates.
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Jake
[B]This will likely stir some people up, but remember Yassar Arafat was also a Noble Peace Prize winner...
Jake [/B][/QUOTE] now thats funny rofl.
[B]This will likely stir some people up, but remember Yassar Arafat was also a Noble Peace Prize winner...
Jake [/B][/QUOTE]
Following that logic, Jack the Ripper should have been given some medical notification..
He was pretty good with the knife from what I've read..
[B]Following that logic, Jack the Ripper should have been given some medical notification..
He was pretty good with the knife from what I've read.. [/B][/QUOTE]
surgeon of the year perhaps?
[B]i think it would have been peace in our time with Chaimberlinlin(sp?) rather than Churchill [/B][/QUOTE]
Ah yes.
[B]i think it would have been peace in our time with Chaimberlinlin(sp?) rather than Churchill [/B][/QUOTE]
Chamberlain.
- PJH
[B]Wasnt Hitler nominated one year? Peace in our time, with Churchill? I dont remember though... [/B][/QUOTE]
I don't know about nominatin for the nobel peace prize, but I know that Hitler was on the cover of Time magazine once.
[url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/1801773.stm[/url]
[quote]Harald Tom Nesvik, a member of the right-wing Party for Progress, said that he had nominated the two world leaders for fighting terrorism and promoting world peace.
"The background for my nomination is their decisive action against terrorism, something I believe in the future will be the greatest threat to peace," he told the Associated Press news agency.
"Unfortunately, sometimes... you have to use force to secure peace."[/quote]
I don't think that's an unreasonable position to take on the matter; there's plenty of precedent throughout history, and even in B5. Consider the Centauri situation towards the end of season 2:
The Centauri represent a threat to pretty much everyone around them, having already decimated the Narn homeworld. League members are being attacked for the establishment of a Centauri "buffer zone"; Earth finally decides to take sides in the matter.
As presented in the show, the "correct" course of action would be to sign defense pacts with league members and bring other political pressure to bear, all of which would result in an inevitable military conflict with the Centauri, who were not about to back down. The Centauri were a real and present danger to all of the league worlds around them; military action against the Centauri would therefore have been justified for the good of everyone else.
The conclusion that military action was needed in the case of Saddam Hussein is not a faulty one, if you start from the assumption that he represented a clear and present threat to those around him and to his own people. The question lies in whether that assumption was justified or not, and as I see it, there's plenty of room for debate on both sides.
So, no, I don't mind seeing Bush and Blair nominated for this at all.
[B]Being nominated is a moot point; winning the award is what actually counts. The fact that Yasser Arafat won the Nobel Peace Prize is surprising, given that the original intent of the Prize was to recognize those who have furthered the cause of peace through [I]non-violent[/I] means; by rights, Arafat shouldn't have even won. Then again, the politics surrounding the Peace Prize have made that distinction (and quite likely the Prize itself) utterly meaningless. [/B][/QUOTE] So wait lemme get this strait your telling me he actually WON a nobel prize?
Yes he did in 1994, along with Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin. I believe it was awared for the original Camp David Accords.
Jake
The bad part was it was a Jewish extremist that shot him, who was angry about the concessions Rabin had made to the Palestinians. Much like the man that shot Lincoln killed much of the south's chance for real reconstruction, the shooter, in reality, ended up make life much harder for the Jewish people, not easier.
Jake