Putin Among The Surprises On Nobel Peace Prize List

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SCOTT SIMON, HOST:

The winner of the Nobel Peace Prize will be announced October 11. 2014's been a tough year for peace, with so many places in the world embroiled in war, suffering and ferment. But there are a few names that seem to keep coming up for the prize. Pope Francis has been nominated and Malala Yousafzai, the 17-year-old advocate for education and women's rights. Then there are few names that may be surprises - Edward Snowden, the former national security agency contractor who revealed a lot of agency secrets, Chelsea Manning, the former U.S. soldier known as Bradley Manning, who's serving a 35-year sentence for disclosing classified information through WikiLeaks, and Vladimir Putin. The International Academy of Spiritual Unity and Cooperation of Peoples of the World nominated the president of Russia for his efforts to prevent the U.S. from launching airstrikes on the Assad regime. Putin's been nominated despite Ukraine and Chechnya and Georgia and supplying arms to the Assad regime in Syria. The group said that Mr. Putin is a promoter of peace.

http://www.npr.org/2014/10/04/353679002/putin-among-the-surprises-on-nobel-peace-prize-list

[PSPS]

1. Anyone can be nominated

But the Nobel peace prize pretty much lost its credibility when Obama stopped to pick his up on his way to a war council. His was more a prize for "hope after Bush" than for anything he actually did.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

6. It lost it well before that.

Gore and Carter were both "not George Bush" prizes, plain and simple, too, and so was the EU.

And, arguably, long before that, with Henry Kissinger or before.

[yeoman6987]

7. Putin is the only one I question

The rest seem fine to me.

[lpbk2713]

8. True. Limbaugh often makes the rough draft.

Thanks to ballot box stuffing from his Shittoheads.

And of course he boasts about it on the air for days.

[WonderGrunion]

11. His prize was for his work on nuclear disarmament

http://mediamatters.org/research/2010/04/09/right-wing-media-mockery-ignores-obamas-nuclear/163014

Obama introduced Nuclear Weapons Threat Reduction Act of 2007. Obama introduced the Nuclear Weapons Threat Reduction Act of 2007 (S.1977), with then-Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE) as an original co-sponsor, which would "provide for sustained United States leadership in a cooperative global effort to prevent nuclear terrorism, reduce global nuclear arsenals, stop the spread of nuclear weapons and related material and technology, and support the responsible and peaceful use of nuclear technology."

Obama interest in nuclear policy predates his Senate career. Obama reportedly authored his college thesis on "Soviet nuclear disarmament." Moreover, Washington Monthly reported in September 2006: "On the campaign trail in 2004, Obama spoke passionately about the dangers of loose nukes and the legacy of the Nunn-Lugar nonproliferation program, a framework created by a 1991 law to provide the former Soviet republics assistance in securing and deactivating nuclear weapons. Lugar took note, as 'nonproliferation' is about as common a campaign sound-bite for aspiring senators as 'exchange-rate policy' or 'export-import bank oversight.'"

Nuclear disarmament has always been a big concern of the Nobel committee.

[davidpdx]

19. You are wasting your breath

There are a large number of DU'ers who would rather lie about it than accept facts. It just goes to show that stupidity factor around here is execrable expediently obscene

[geek tragedy]

12. So in your mind Obama tarnishes it in a way that Kissinger and Arafat didn't.

Fascinating the psychology one sees at play here.

[hobbit709]

13. In more ways than one.

[geek tragedy]

14. hey, if you want to argue that Barack Obama is a bigger war criminal or murderer than Kissinger,

Sadat, Begin, or Arafat, feel free.

Just find it fascinating how many people find the Obama award so much more vile and discrediting than the above-mentioned, and how bitter they are about it.

[hobbit709]

15. My, my, my! Touchy aren't we?

Especially when nothing of the sort was mentioned.

[geek tragedy]

16. inferences were drawn, based on experience nt

[hobbit709]

17. On both sides.

When Obama is right I agree with him. When he is wrong I do not
Blind adoring worship that overlooks the things one doesn't want to see is not my way.

I'd rather watch the parking meters.

[Phlem]

2. So much for the Nobel Peace Prize carrying weight.

can't wait to see the discussion on this.

[nc4bo]

3. Does any of it mean anything anymore?

Nope.

[Wella]

4. They must have a different definition of "peace" than we do.

I'd love to know what it is.

[MisterP]

9. yeah--Peace Prizes are for people who've been in office 2 weeks!

[Wella]

10. Or who invade neighboring countries and lie about it.

Interesting, eh?

[davidpdx]

20. So why did Obama win the Nobel Peace Prize?

[Jenoch]

5. Even President Obama should not have been

nominated for this 'peace' prize.

[geek tragedy]

18. same group of Russian nationalists nominated him last year

http://thinkprogress.org/security/2013/10/02/2721001/putins-nobel-peace-prize-nomination/

Putin’s nomination was filed by Beslan Kobakhiya, head of the Russian-based International Academy of Spiritual Unity and Cooperation of Peoples of the World. Members of his group argued at the press conference that Putin, the man behind wars in Chechnya and Georgia, was more deserving of the award that 2009 winner Barack Obama.

[Blue_Tires]

21. No big shock

Putin has been nominated the past few years, hasn't he?