U.N. Nuke Watchdog Wins Nobel Peace Prize (IAEA and ElBaradei)

ap on Yahoo ^ | 10/7/05 | Doug Mellgren - AP

[NormsRevenge]

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ig noble

Thanks!

[newcthem]

Rates right up there with boybugger Araft and PresidentJimmy

[RightWhale]

And another thing, how can they give a Nobel Prize to an agency. And another thing, how can they give the Nobel Prize to an agency that is supposed to be doing its job?

[Dick Bachert]

Travis,

You talkin' ta ME?

LOL

[Mister Baredog]

Isn't the Nobel prize usually awarded for results?

NO

[RightWhale]

Not only results, but practical results. You know, things that actually do something.

[miloklancy]

I guess we should expect this, being that Yasser Arafat and Jimmy Carter are former recipients. But it is a joke. The IAEA has failed miserably at taking Iran to task on their nuclear program. Anymore the noble peace prize is also just that, a joke.

[silverleaf]

Dear Mohammed,
Keep up the fair work.
signed,
Nobel Peace Prize Committee

snicker

[elc]

I may be mistaken here, but hasn't Brazil also re-launched its nuclear weapons program in the past couple years and not cooperated with IAEA. Not that I put them in the same category as N. Korea or Iran, but still...

[penelopesire]

Rush is talking about this right now!

[proud_yank]

Isn't the Nobel prize usually awarded for results?

Well, lets see how many times the UN has won the prize.

1954: Office of UN High Commission for Refugees

1965: UN Children's Fund (UNICEF)

1977: Amnesty Intl (Not UN, I know...)

1981: Office of UN High Commission for Refugees

1988: UN Appeasement, I mean Peacekeeping Forces

http://history1900s.about.com/library/misc/blnobelpeace.htm

These are just the ones I found where 'UN' in particular was mentioned. Don't know if any of the individuals listed had anything to do with the UNited Nothings.

I wonder when the Human Rights commission will get their crack, or the Oil for Food program!!

[Deetes]

Crazy... But Bono could have won....

[etlib]

Here is how the NY Times News Service began its article on the prize:

The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded yesterday to the International Atomic Energy Agency and its chief, Mohamed ElBaradei, whom the Bush administration tried but failed to remove from his job just months ago.

The award was a vindication of a man and an agency who have long sparred with President Bush and his administration over how to confront Iraq and Iran. The prize could strengthen the agency's position as conflicts loom over preventing Iran from obtaining fuel it could turn into nuclear weapons and disarming North Korea.

[etlib]

Good editorial in the San Diego U-T, "Noble it wasn't".  Some highlights:

"Why doesn't the Stockholm-based Nobel Foundation just change the name of its annual Peace Prize to the Bush Bash?"

"A key Nobel official frankly described the Carter honor as a 'kick in the legs' to George W. Bush."

"All this, of course, takes the suspense out of the Nobel Foundation's choice for the 2006 Peace Prize. Cindy Sheehan might as well go ahead and start writing her acceptance rant, er, speech."