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01 Oct 2013, 4:09 pm

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news ... eace-prize


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01 Oct 2013, 5:04 pm

Don't worry. Mr. Jagland will give the Peace Prize to himself this year.



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01 Oct 2013, 5:28 pm

He negotiated a deal to purge Syria of Chemical Weapons. --A bit more than Barack Obama did when he got the Peace prize in 2009.


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01 Oct 2013, 5:57 pm

There are 10,000 people siberia who would object to this. :lol: gulags....



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01 Oct 2013, 6:35 pm

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There are 10,000 people siberia who would object to this. :lol: gulags....


Of course, but at the same time, The Nobel Peace prize isn't really the meaningful prize that it once was.


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01 Oct 2013, 9:04 pm

I think he deserves it more than obama
he has not been running secrete drone wars or trying to start more wars
if anything russia has been pretty anti war this decade



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01 Oct 2013, 9:57 pm

The prize is obviously well past its relevancy


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02 Oct 2013, 6:05 am

Well hey, he probably deserves it more than Henry Kissinger.



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02 Oct 2013, 6:20 am

Why not? If they can give the Peace Prize to Yassar Arrafat then why not to Putin?

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02 Oct 2013, 6:42 am

I find this disgusting considering he is homophobic, and the anti-homophobic laws he has put in.



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02 Oct 2013, 7:07 am

ruveyn wrote:
Why not? If they can give the Peace Prize to Yassar Arrafat then why not to Putin?

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And the EU.

Why don't they just give a posthumous one to Hitler?



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02 Oct 2013, 9:54 am

Tequila wrote:
ruveyn wrote:
Why not? If they can give the Peace Prize to Yassar Arrafat then why not to Putin?

ruveyn


And the EU.

Why don't they just give a posthumous one to Hitler?


The is right. The the Fuhrer ever wanted was Peace. A little peace of Poland, a little peacer of France... etc.

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02 Oct 2013, 10:32 am

Tequila wrote:
ruveyn wrote:
Why not? If they can give the Peace Prize to Yassar Arrafat then why not to Putin?

ruveyn


And the EU.

Why don't they just give a posthumous one to Hitler?


Hitler was once named Time's Man of the Year.
Although Nobel Prizes are not awarded post-humously. That is why Gandhi never got one.


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02 Oct 2013, 4:31 pm

sonofghandi wrote:
Tequila wrote:
ruveyn wrote:
Why not? If they can give the Peace Prize to Yassar Arrafat then why not to Putin?

ruveyn


And the EU.

Why don't they just give a posthumous one to Hitler?


Hitler was once named Time's Man of the Year.
Although Nobel Prizes are not awarded post-humously. That is why Gandhi never got one.


Man of the Year is not a title of praise. It is a title of importance.

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02 Oct 2013, 5:48 pm

Wouldn't be far below Kissinger's.


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06 Oct 2013, 6:14 pm

I think we need a Schindler's list for this one and then decide on a vote