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People are now talking about the US and Iran winning a joint Nobel Peace Prize
Business Insider via Reuters ^ | 07/14/2015 | ALISTER DOYLE AND STINE JACOBSEN

Posted on 07/14/2015 9:46:33 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

OSLO (Reuters) - A nuclear deal clinched between Iran and six major world powers that caps more than a decade of negotiations has stoked talk of a joint Nobel Peace Prize for Tehran and Washington this year, despite the likelihood of strong objections from some quarters.

U.S. President Barack Obama, who won the prize in 2009 for promoting nuclear non-proliferation, hailed the Iran deal on Tuesday as a step towards a "more hopeful world". But Israel pledged to try to halt an "historic surrender".

Awarding the prestigious award to Washington and Tehran would fit a pattern of nuclear-themed peace prizes in years ending in '5', commemorating the bombings of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.

"I think the work of the Nobel Committee ... this year just got much easier," former Swedish prime minister Carl Bildt tweeted after the Iranian deal was announced.

But many doubts remain over the appropriateness of honoring Iran, which does not recognize Israel and backs its foes, faces regular international criticism over human rights and was long denounced by Washington as a member of an "axis of evil".

(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: irandeal; nobelpeaceprize
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To: SeekAndFind

Not worth the toilet paper it’s written on.


41 posted on 07/14/2015 10:18:39 AM PDT by william clark (Ecclesiastes 10:2)
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To: SeekAndFind

Give it to Kerry along with his 4th Purple Heart.


42 posted on 07/14/2015 10:19:43 AM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: Don Corleone

43 posted on 07/14/2015 10:25:37 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Iran being suggested for the Nobel Peace Prize, so I guess this means if this were the NHL, Dave Schultz or Terry O’Reilly or Tiger Williams should have been suggested for the Lady Byng trophy during their careers?


44 posted on 07/14/2015 10:26:23 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("Keeping your stick down used to be a commandment, but not anymore" Harry Sinden, 1988)
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To: SeekAndFind

The world is upside down. Evil is good and good is evil.

Come Lord Jesus, come!


45 posted on 07/14/2015 10:26:37 AM PDT by A Formerly Proud Canadian (I once was blind, but now I see...)
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To: Don Corleone
Let's give ole S.O.S. Skerry a big ole ticker tape parade in N.Y.City !
46 posted on 07/14/2015 10:27:03 AM PDT by timestax (American Media = Domestic Enemy)
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To: fishnuts2
I wish I could find that picture of a marquee sign that read “Nobel Peace Prize with every oil change


47 posted on 07/14/2015 10:27:26 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

No way.

Caitlin Jenner gets that.


48 posted on 07/14/2015 10:29:03 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie ( A system of government that makes the People subordinate to a committee of nine unelected lawyers)
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To: SeekAndFind

Sure. Why not complete the comedy?


49 posted on 07/14/2015 10:30:19 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Let us now try liberty)
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To: SeekAndFind

Just give the NPP to ISIS, and end the charade.


50 posted on 07/14/2015 10:32:02 AM PDT by windsorknot
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To: 1Old Pro

[Let’s award one to Hitler while we’re rewriting history.]

Well, he DID kill himself, wife and dog to give peace a chance. /s


51 posted on 07/14/2015 10:33:35 AM PDT by RetSignman (Obama is the walking, talking middle finger in the face of America)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

Peace in our Time! I am so glad Emperor Obama (aka PM Chamberlain) made this deal with the devil. This will go down as the greatest diplomatic failure in US history and will bring about WWIII.
Hail our Muslim Commander in Chief!


52 posted on 07/14/2015 10:35:20 AM PDT by kgrif_Salinas
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To: SeekAndFind

They really should wait until Iran blows somebody up...

...if only for the irony factor alone


53 posted on 07/14/2015 10:40:02 AM PDT by PATRIOT1876
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To: SeekAndFind
Just add Iran to the long list of the undeserving bloodthirsty and lunatics like Algore.
54 posted on 07/14/2015 10:43:09 AM PDT by PATRIOT1876
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To: SeekAndFind

this deal will cause war. it seems as if the peace prize is the lefts. seal of approval on political behavior eather then an award for peaceful endeavors.


55 posted on 07/14/2015 10:43:16 AM PDT by PCPOET7 (VORS)
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To: SeekAndFind
I bet they would've given Hitler and Stalin a prize in the 1930’s if these same misfits were handing them out...
56 posted on 07/14/2015 10:44:31 AM PDT by PATRIOT1876
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To: SeekAndFind

That would be terribly appropriate given the history of the Nobel Peace Prize, just before the outbreak and immediate end of the Great Middle East War.


57 posted on 07/14/2015 11:01:16 AM PDT by arthurus (It's true!)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Yes we are. I thought he got it for just being the second coming.


59 posted on 07/14/2015 11:47:59 AM PDT by pfflier
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To: SeekAndFind

That would be perfect for the Noble War Prize. This agreement guarantees World War III goes full hot in just a few months.


60 posted on 07/14/2015 12:20:35 PM PDT by justa-hairyape (The use of the name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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