Iraq row dogs Nobel Peace Prize (BAD CHOICE ALERT)

BBC News ^ | October 11, 2002 | BBC News

[landerwy]

"This is all irrelevant. The US and the UK will do what's right regardless of these socialists praising a failed ex-president."


What you said is worth a double post! :)

[Timesink]

Back when Iran took hostages, Carter did nothing while Reagan traded arms.

Reagan was trading arms while still a private citizen in 1980? Wow, he was even more powerful than I thought!

Had either one of them sent a strong message by kicking some ass, none of this crap would be happening today. We may have lost some American lives, but nothing like was lost on 9/11.

Had Reagan never taken on the Soviet Union, we wouldn't be dealing with Islamist terrorists today because they'd all be too busy dealing with the proxy wars between the US and USSR that would be going on in that region to this day. Personally, I'd rather have a bunch of ragtag terrorists to deal with than the daily potential for worldwide nuclear annihilation.

There are always unseeable consequences to everything. Twenty years from now people on FR will be playing armchair general, talking about how we wouldn't have to be dealing with problem X in 2022 if only Dubya had had the guts to Do Something About Them back in 2002, even though in 2002 nobody had ever even heard of the problem or the people responsible for it.

[Cicero]

Some list. IMHO the only ones who deserve the honor are:

1983 Lech Walesa
1979 Mother Teresa
1975 Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov
1961 Dag Hammarskjöld

What does that make, about one in every fifteen awards. And hardly a decent award since 1983?

[orfisher]

Reagan was trading arms while still a private citizen in 1980? Wow, he was even more powerful than I thought!....Touche'-but you know what I meant. (g)

[cubreporter]

Yes and...we don't need the Nobel to acknowledge the greatness and peace loving efforts of our beloved President George W. Bush. The Nobel Committee means nothing to me and a lot of others. President Bush means a lot to me and a lot of others. :)

[Timesink]

Touche'-but you know what I meant. (g)

I know ... just tweakin' ya. But I do tend to believe that rattling sabers at the Arabs might not have the best idea in the world back when Brezhnev and Andopov and all those dour gentlemen were running things Over There.

[Tony in Hawaii]

They got it right in 1948, 1955, and 1956, too.

[colorado tanker]

My suggestion would be a joint award to Pres. Reagan, Lady Thatcher and Pope John Paul for winning the cold war and bringing an end to the Soviet system and gulag, all without resorting to a hot war. Their accomplishments tower over Carter's. And if anyone asked if the award was a implied rebuke to Gorbachov, I'd say you bet your bottom ruble it is.

[GVnana]

Jimmy Carter used to be a joke

What to make of a Nobel prize going to that happy face, eh? A completely failed presidency. A reputation at home as the world's worst buttinsky...Shoot.

I've been pounding nails in my house all week. When can I get me one of 'dem prizes?

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

'Humbled'

I would have thought:

Abased
Shamed
Chastened
Degraded
Disgraced
Maligned
Stigmatized
Misused
Branded
Discredited
Distained
Dishonored


I could go on all night.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

[G]ive it to Ronald Reagan. He ended the Cold War, after all.


- With a big assist from Lady Thatcher.

[paltz]

Teddy Roosevelt (One of my 3 favorite Reps) was the first American to win the Peace Prize.

[Grampa Dave]

The unnoble prize was bought out a couple of decades ago by the Opecker Princes, the thugs of Iraq and the killer Mullahs of Iran. Arafat, Sadat, the push for the Clintoon in 2000 and now their best buddie Carter. Carter has been whoreing and pimping for the Islamofascists for two decades. (link to Carter be financed and controlled by Opecker Princes and Islamofascist thugs)

[Grampa Dave]

The unnoble prize was bought out a couple of decades ago by the Opecker Princes, the thugs of Iraq and the killer Mullahs of Iran.

Arafat, Sadat, the push for the Clintoon in 2000 and now their best buddie Carter are prime examples of their buddies becoming un noble prize winners.

Carter has been whoreing and pimping for the Islamofascists for two decades. (link to Carter be financed and controlled by Opecker Princes and Islamofascist thugs)

While he was President he allowed the Killer Mullahs to overtake our embassy and he stood by the sideline watching. Before Ronald Reagan was elected, he sent a message behind their doors to return our people from our embassy before he became president or pay a big price for stupidity. They released our people.

Carter did more damage to the CIA than any other rat has.

Carter helped to empower the Watermelon Enviralists to control our industry, oil/energy production and to kill nuclear power to make us more dependent on Opecker Oil.

Carter never met a commie nor a IslamoFascist that he didn't love. He is Fidel Castro's best friend in America.

Carter is my candidate for the worse President in our history. That is why he was chosen for the un noble prize!