If it walks like a kick and feels like a kick . . .

Awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to the International Atomic Energy Agency and its director, Mohamed ElBaradei, “is not a kick in the legs to any country,” committee chairman Ole Danbolt Mjoes said Friday. Yeah, right. The Bush administration has been at war with ElBaradei over Iran and Iraq (where, as it turned out, ElBaradei was correct), and it has tried unsuccessfully to get him replaced, claiming he overlooks and doesn’t punish violations. This award sure looks more like a rebuke to Bush than an earned honor for ElBaradei.
Posted by Phillip Brownlee

5 Comments

  1. Nate
    Posted October 7, 2005 at 3:46 pm | Permalink

    Probably worth noting the failures of the IAEA. Iran, North Korea, India, Pakistan, etc. I agree that it is hard to see the award as anything other than a slap at America, Bush in particular. The same is true of Jimmy Carter’s Nobel Prize. Petty.

  2. Galahad
    Posted October 7, 2005 at 3:57 pm | Permalink

    News flash–important events happen in other places besides the United States.

    I know it’s hard for a lot of bloggers to understand that.

    Maybe the Nobel Prize just went to a guy doing a decent job to stopping the spread of nuclear weapons.

    When you’ve alienated as many world leaders as Bush has, it’d be hard for the Noble committee to find somebody important who hasn’t been a Bush target.

  3. Nate
    Posted October 7, 2005 at 4:10 pm | Permalink

    Decent job…that’s funny.

  4. Joe Williams
    Posted October 7, 2005 at 4:57 pm | Permalink

    The United Nations has recieved many Nobel Peace Prizes. Yasser Arafat has recieved one too.

    It may be warrented. I don’t know.

  5. Damoon
    Posted October 8, 2005 at 7:45 pm | Permalink

    I think those who award the Nobel Peace Prize lost all credibility when they gave the award to the father of terrorism, Yasser Arafat. It was a often said that Arafat “Never missed an opportunity to miss an opportunity for peace”.