Save the Children, Yushchenko and Powell tipped for 2005 Nobel Peace Prize

[truthpusher]

http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/theworld/2005/January/theworld_January742.xml§ion=theworld&col=

Save the Children, Yushchenko and Powell tipped for 2005 Nobel Peace Prize
(AFP)

31 January 2005

OSLO - Humanitarian aid group Save the Children, Ukraine’s new President Viktor Yushchenko and former US secretary of state Colin Powell are seen as likely candidates for the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize ahead of Tuesday’s deadline for nominations.

complete story:
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/theworld/2005/January/theworld_January742.xml§ion=theworld&col=

[Sandpiper]

1. Colin Powell for the Nobel Peace Prize?

This guy brazenly lies before the UN about the necessity for war in Iraq and he's nominated for a Peace Prize?!?!

:puke:

[saltpoint]

2. I might have thrown the name of --

-- Senator Robert Byrd in the mix.

He argued as passionately and clearly as possible on the floor of the Senate against Bush's maniacal blunder in Iraq.

[Tacos al Carbon]

20. Yeah, but what has Byrd actually accomplished?

EOM.

[saltpoint]

28. The assessment could be qualitative and not quantitative.

The principled conscience serves as a solitary example of integrity against the tawdry decimation of the Bill of Rights and the Constitution, which Bush/Ashcroft/etc have engendered.

An unidentified White House source (someone in Cheney's office?) called the senior senator from West Virginia a "prick," and told one reporter that "No one listens to doddering old Bob Byrd."

I listen to him. He is a close friend of my aunt. His history-making remarks against the president's private war are worthy of consideration by the Nobel Committee. Powell was one of the architects of war; Byrd spoke for peace, eloquently.

[Gloria]

3. What the hell does Powell have to do with getting a Peace Prize?

My head is about to explode.....

[The Zanti Regent]

15. Ask my dead son...

Oh you can't, you see, my only child lies in a VA cemetery plot thanks to Colinoreo.

What really hurts is that today is my birthday, I woke up at 1 AM crying because my boy isn't here with me and he will never be with me again.

I guess I'll go visit him after work today. Once again, if they desecrate his grave with a flag, I'll bring it home and burn it.

[Pert_UK]

16. I'm very sorry for your loss.

I can't really say any more than that but send you my best wishes.

[aikido15]

19. Torch it...

every time they put that f**king flag on there! God, I am so sorry for your loss!

I keep protesting and whatever else I can do to save another mother from the utter heartbreak you are going through.

[piece sine]

22. maybe you'd be happier living in Toronto

Just a thought....

[Mizmoon]

24. What do you mean by that?

Elaborate.

[GetTheRightVote]

4. No way should Col. Powell get this award, dimishes it's importance

I use to respect Powell until he got into the mix with * and his posse but no more, to bad really, not Nobel material any more.

:kick:

[Wrinkle_In_Time]

10. "Diminishes it's [sic] importance"?...

... while there have been some extremely worthy recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize, there have been some that I consider less worthy. I still haven't figured out what the Nobel Prize for Peace truly represents. Any award that equates Henry Kissinger and Nelson Mandala is incomprehensible to me. The list of past recipients seems to be very diverse.

Based on the history of this award, why not give Colin Powell a nomination? I think he will put forward a good case against Carrot Top and that guy from the Verizon ads ("can you bomb me now?").

[Solly Mack]

5. Gee...why not give one to Bush, Cheney, Rice, and Rumsfeld too

if peddling lies earns a Nobel Peace Prize, the entire Bush Administration is deserving.

[MADem]

6. Don't waste your money putting down money on Powell just yet

http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/theworld/2005/January/theworld_January742.xml§ion=theworld&col=

Salient paragraphs from the above article:

As tradition dictates, the Nobel Institute never reveals the identities of the candidates. However, those entitled to submit nominations for the prize—including past laureates, members of parliament and cabinet ministers from around the world and some university professors—are allowed to disclose their suggestions.

The Ukrainian president is thus known to be on the list, having been nominated by a group within the Ukrainian academic community for his peaceful fight for democracy in his country.

...The conflict in Sudan, Africa’s longest running war which ended in January when the government and Sudan People’s Liberation Army signed a peace treaty, could also earn Colin Powell the prize, a candidate vigorously supported by US Senator Frank Wolf.

“President Bush and Secretary Powell should be considered for the Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts” in Sudan, he said at a peace ceremony in Naivasha, Kenya on January 9.

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Here's my guess--Powell is a super long-shot. If you read the full article, the leading contenders appear to be tsunami aid groups. Nominations close Tuesday.

[sundancekid]

9. long shot is right -- that paper should know it's Congressman Wolf (R-Va)

mercy on us all if Powell is seen as a potential Nobel Peace equivalent to Dr. Martin Luther King

[MADem]

12. The paper is from India

...and the story has an OSLO dateline. Perhaps the reporter doesn't do US political nuance...he probably figures, hey, those American idiots reelected him, they must all be on the same page.

[TahitiNut]

7. If Powel gets it, it should be called the "Atrocity Award"

It would be the worst decision in the history of the Nobel Committee.

[AG78]

8. Well

http://nobelprize.org/peace/laureates/1973/kissinger-bio.html

[TahitiNut]

11. That was only half an award ... for peace with dishonor

Le Duc Tho should've gotten it alone.

[cliss]

13. COLON BOWEL?

If he gets the award, I will disown myself from the Norwegians. They know better than that.

The Americans are the equivalent of -- well, never mind. Let's just say that they won't do it. That would be validating everything that's happened around the world.

[oasis]

14. Colon Bowel should be run out of town on a rail. He is a disgrace.

[booksenkatz]

17. Ole Colin "My Lai" Powell?

"Peace" is not the first thing that comes to my mind when I think of Mr. Powell, unless, of course, it is "lying 'peace' of shit."

[aikido15]

18. Totally in agreement!

:wtf: The only thing Powell and Peace have in common is the letter "P"

[realisticphish]

26. and the letter "e"

but who's counting :)


:hippie: The Incorrigible Democrat

[BiggJawn]

21. Bowell must have been suggested by...

..the same butt-sucking ReTHUG morons that started the rumour about Chimp and his Poodle getting one last time...

[leesa]

23. Must be the kewl way he lied to the UN to justify an unprovoked invasion

That's real peaceful!

[Mizmoon]

25. Fitting - they also awarded a Nobel to the lobotomy inventor

and they won't rescind it, either.

http://www.psychosurgery.org/index_files/Page2956.htm

[NYC]

27. I think someone nominated Bush last year,

so I don't see this as anything to be concerned about.

I'm on dial up, but if I can find a link quickly, I'll edit.

Here's a lead, not the actual story:

http://www.eskimo.com/~cwj2/actions/bushblairnobel.html