Nobel Peace Prize winner Mairead Corrigan Maguire has criticised the decision to give this year's award to US President Barack Obama.
Also, see Mehdi Hassan, Obama wins the Nobel Peace Prize. Is this a joke? http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/mehdi-hasan/2009/10/nobel-peace-prize-obama
For a full transcript and analysis of Barack Obama's Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, see Paul Reynolds, BBC world affairs correspondent: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8406068.stm
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In the same train of thought, Tom Lehrer' quote about the "political satire becoming obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Prize" is the proof that you may still have to reconsider things
Ty... again or anew. It may well be that rewarding war crimes is timeless. If, OTOH, you're only playing the Devil's advocate by inferring that no matter the size of your "collateral damage" - be it Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Iraq or Afghanistan - as long as you do it with style, then... you'll be OK! I hope this can be considered as an attenuating circumstance the day we'll meet again!...
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