Nobel Peace Prize

BBKing · 07-10-2005, 10:07

...goes to the IAEA and Mohammed el Baradei. Must drop a line to my first girlfriend, who works there.

punky · 07-10-2005, 10:20

What the hell peace has he achieved? His failure and the failure of his cronies led to the Iraq war. Iran is about to restart nuclear production, probably resulting in nuclear weapons and a war over it. North Korea is still hell bent on nuclear weapons, after talks have broken down again so that's possibly another war there.

There are more nuclear weapons now than ever before. In ten years time, we will have possibly 2 more more nations with nuclear weapons. Who has he disarmed? Whose peace has he effected?

Crazy, absolutely bloody crazy. A more logical choice would have been the leader of the Stop The War Coalition, who led the world's biggest mass protest from Britain, to actually try and stop a war. At least they changed attitudes, even though they didn't change the result.

Paul K · 07-10-2005, 10:22

Well there is some info here
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4318388.stm
but not a lot as to why he was awarded it over others

punky · 07-10-2005, 10:28

Or how about Martti Ahtisaari.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Wiki

In 2005 Ahtisaari successfully lead peace negotiations between the Free Aceh Movement or GAM and the Indonesian government through his non-governmental organization CMI. The negotiations ended on August 15th with a treaty on withdrawal of the armed Indonesian forces and dropped GAM demands for an independent Aceh.

At least he actually acieved something. Giving el Baradei an award for peace is like giving someone a GCSE because they turned up.

me283 · 07-10-2005, 12:09

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Originally Posted by punky

Or how about Martti Ahtisaari.

At least he actually acieved something. Giving el Baradei an award for peace is like giving someone a GCSE because they turned up.

Isn't that what they do these days?