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Two exchange students accepted a Chinese peace prize Friday on behalf of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who was honored for enhancing Russia's status and crushing anti-government forces in Chechnya
When a peace prize actively notes the crushing of anti-government forces as the reason for getting the peace prize....well I guess things would be more peaceful if you kill all the chechnyans.
The Nobel prize is often referred to as a beauty pageant nowadays, because it relies on measures of fluff and how the results will shape world events rather than on the accomplishments of the individual.
The Nobel prize is often referred to as a beauty pageant nowadays, because it relies on measures of fluff and how the results will shape world events rather than on the accomplishments of the individual.
The PEACE prize yes. Most of the other Nobel prizes are more solidly determined.
I wouldn't even give it credit as a beauty pageant, it's political which is even worse.
That's almost as amusing as considering the source of the Nobel Prize itself. Alfred Nobel worked with that notoriously peace-enhancing product, dynamite.
Obama received a Nobel peace prize for escalating the war
in Afghanistan. So he's in good company with Putin.
Actually, he got the prize before the Afghanistan surge....so he got the prize for saying how war was bad and that he wasn't Bush....before proceeding to follow in Bush's footsteps.
Putin actually got his for blasting Chechnyans to pieces....
Oh wait, I get it....they meant to write PIECE Prize and just ran into some bad translation.
Actually, he got the prize before the Afghanistan surge....so he got the prize for saying how war was bad and that he wasn't Bush....before proceeding to follow in Bush's footsteps.
Putin actually got his for blasting Chechnyans to pieces....
Oh wait, I get it....they meant to write PIECE Prize and just ran into some bad translation.
What's next? Maybe they'll award the prize to Saddam Hussein or Qaddaffi, posthumously.
If Henry Kissinger or Barack Obama can get a Nobel prize for making an empty speech, anyone can.
I heard they were giving them away next month in MacDonald's Happy Meals. Along with an Obama bobble head.
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