Posted on 10/07/2005 8:42:08 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1498225/posts
Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Mohamed ElBaradei delivers a press statement prior to the start of the IAEA's 35-nation board of governors meeting, on Feb. 28, 2005, at Vienna's International Center. The International Atomic Energy Agency and its chief, Mohamed ElBaradei, have won the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize Friday Oct. 7, 2005.(AP Photo/Rudi Blaha)
They are mentally deranged.
In such august company as the pistol totin' Yassir R U FAT!
Isn't the Nobel prize usually awarded for results?
You have to be joking. Would this guy notice it if his seeing eye dog piddled on his leg?
---"IAEA AND MOHAMMED EL BARADAI WINS THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE"---
Bwah ha hah hah hah...! That was a good one. But seriously, this belongs in the humor section, or possibly vanity.
I mean, it is clearly a damned joke.
Good grief! Under this guys 'watch', PAKISTAN, IRAN and NORTH KOREA have all built bombs! Unbelievable!
"People will remember El Baradei from last October, when the WaPo suggested he might be trying to influence the US election. (OK, we had been screaming that as well, and let's note the denial.)
Needless to say, for the Nobel Committe that was not a bug, it was a feature."
from:
http://justoneminute.typepad.com/main/2005/10/el_baradei_wins.html
And that is why he is being rewarded.
Years ago, a fellow walked up to a colleague and reported that a mutual acquaintance had been awarded the Nobel Prize.
The shocked colleague blurted "Why, I didn't even know he was a communist!"
So to win the "peace" prize, you have to:
a) assist a brutal, tyrannical regime in acquiring nuclear weaponry; or
b) play a crucial role in legitimizing a terrorist leader?
Just trying to figure out what the criteria are...
I see this as having less to do with him and his performance than a thumb in the US eye and a thumb in the eye of using the military instead of endessly talking these rogue states off the nuclear ledge. I swear that if Europe is attacked like in WW2, I will not lift one damn finger to help them. They can reap the whirlwind as far as I am concerned.
Austere and methodical, ElBaradei took a strident line as he guided the agency through the most serious troubles it faced since the end of the Cold War. He accused North Korea, for example, of "nuclear brinkmanship" in December 2002 after it expelled two inspectors monitoring a mothballed nuclear complex.
I guess throwing an accusation is now considered both courageous and effective.
How we "feel" is more important than what we do. That is the central problem in the Western world, and the Nobel Committee has wonderfully demonstrated that fact.
I think the last Nobel Peace Prize winner that actually accomplished anything was Lech Walesa.
Look at Peace Prize winner Yassir Arafat and say that again without laughing.
Well he is certainly appropriate given he follows in the steps of those great achievment successes like Jimmah Carter (who made Iran what it is today) and Yassar Arafat (who personally profitted from war)
El Badari probably handed Iran nukes and aided Clinton in letting NK get their as well.
He definitely deserves it based on that.
Should'nt this be posted under the "ig noble" award thread
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1498434/posts
Polictics at thier best
The Prize has turned into a big joke tho - as if the average American cared anyway.
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