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mark occomore
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Toggy
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| Why is it well deserved? what has he done for peace? |
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iwarburton
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Isn't it just a wee bit soon to assess what he has done for world peace? Is there a hidden agenda here?
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MadeinSurrey
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I don't have any problem with Obama getting this, and he is giving the considerable prize money to charity, but it does seem a little soon in his Presidency. As one of the papers said, maybe they gave it to him for not being Bush!!
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RockitRon
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Apparently the nominations closed just 12 days after he took office.
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R2Icon
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| Toggy wrote: | | Why is it well deserved? what has he done for peace? |
Yeah, I struggle to see what he's done for peace so far, apart from a few meetings he's not done very much at all, on the other hand the award may be a pre-emptive strike against the most powerful man in the world. It's going to be really difficult for Obama to start a war now- unless of course it's a war in the name of peace- we seem to have quite a lot of those, they're very popular with World Leaders. |
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RockitRon
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Yes, or to put it more kindly
This is one of those rare events when a person has been awarded a prize for what might be, rather than what has already been achieved.
But we see the award in a positive way - clearly its intention is to honour and recognise what it is hoped can be achieved with this new president.
(Dr Bates Gill, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute)
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In a short time he has established a new tone, creating a willingness for dialogue and I think we all should support him to make peace in this world possible. There is a lot do but a window of opportunity has been opened.
(Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany)
So it's the world giving a huge sigh of relief that, for once, the USA has a President who is neither (yet) a figure of ridicule nor has such a confrontational mentality. Putting his fine words about withdrawing from Iraq and Afghanistan, and closing Guantanamo Bay, into practice is proving a more difficult and lengthy process than just being able to "do it" (indeed the Afghan problem is escalating), but at least he hasn't picked a fight with or waded in against anyone else.
Whether someone should be given an award for not being George W Bush is, of course, questionable.
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iwarburton
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I'm not George W Bush, so can I have something?
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SantaFefan
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| Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2009 10:29 pm Post subject: |
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| RockitRon wrote: | | ... but at least he hasn't picked a fight with or waded in against anyone else. |
Didn't he make threat of Military action against Iran recently?
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