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To: The Swedish Guy

SERIOUS QUESTION:

Why is the Nobel Peace Prize such a joke???

List of recipients ->>>

# 2009 - Barack H. Obama
# 2008 - Martti Ahtisaari
# 2007 - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Al Gore
# 2006 - Muhammad Yunus, Grameen Bank
# 2005 - International Atomic Energy Agency, Mohamed ElBaradei
# 2004 - Wangari Maathai
# 2003 - Shirin Ebadi
# 2002 - Jimmy Carter
# 2001 - United Nations, Kofi Annan
# 2000 - Kim Dae-jung
# 1999 - Médecins Sans Frontières
# 1998 - John Hume, David Trimble
# 1997 - International Campaign to Ban Landmines, Jody Williams
# 1996 - Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo, José Ramos-Horta
# 1995 - Joseph Rotblat, Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs
# 1994 - Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres, Yitzhak Rabin
# 1993 - Nelson Mandela, F.W. de Klerk
# 1992 - Rigoberta Menchú Tum
# 1991 - Aung San Suu Kyi
# 1990 - Mikhail Gorbachev
# 1989 - The 14th Dalai Lama
# 1988 - United Nations Peacekeeping Forces
# 1987 - Oscar Arias Sánchez
# 1986 - Elie Wiesel
# 1985 - International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
# 1984 - Desmond Tutu
# 1983 - Lech Walesa
# 1982 - Alva Myrdal, Alfonso García Robles
# 1981 - Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
# 1980 - Adolfo Pérez Esquivel
# 1979 - Mother Teresa
# 1978 - Anwar al-Sadat, Menachem Begin
# 1977 - Amnesty International
# 1976 - Betty Williams, Mairead Corrigan
# 1975 - Andrei Sakharov
# 1974 - Seán MacBride, Eisaku Sato
# 1973 - Henry Kissinger, Le Duc Tho
# 1972 - The prize money for 1972 was allocated to the Main Fund
# 1971 - Willy Brandt
# 1970 - Norman Borlaug
# 1969 - International Labour Organization
# 1968 - René Cassin
# 1967 - The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section
# 1966 - The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section
# 1965 - United Nations Children’s Fund
# 1964 - Martin Luther King Jr.
# 1963 - International Committee of the Red Cross, League of Red Cross Societies
# 1962 - Linus Pauling


56 posted on 02/11/2010 2:46:35 PM PST by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: fishtank

Look at the last 10 years. These five prizes here are a TRAVESTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

# 2009 - Barack H. Obama
# 2007 - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Al Gore
# 2005 - International Atomic Energy Agency, Mohamed ElBaradei
# 2002 - Jimmy Carter
# 2001 - United Nations, Kofi Annan


61 posted on 02/11/2010 2:49:20 PM PST by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: fishtank
The Peace Prize is Norway's disaster, not Sweden's.
77 posted on 02/11/2010 3:08:13 PM PST by GOP_Party_Animal
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To: fishtank

Because it’s Norwegian.


140 posted on 02/11/2010 4:41:07 PM PST by The Swedish Guy
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