This should be interesting - Nobel Peace Prize

[ScubaGuy]

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Donnachaidh Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Wed Jun-22-11 12:32 PM
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'Outgunning Bush Not Peacemaking': Obama Forfeits Peace Prize
   
http://smirkingchimp.com/thread/robert-becker/36913/out...

Stuck between shame and chagrin, the Swedish Nobel Peace Prize Committee has for the first time in human history reversed a past Peace Prize selection. With high drama this week, the Committee notified President Obama his misguided 2009 Prize has been formally rescinded, requesting the $1.4 million payoff be returned.

"It's not about the money," conceded a press release, "we have a sacred obligation to protect the honor of humanitarian-arms maker Alfred Nobel. Plus, there's the reputation of incendiary peacemakers like Henry Kissinger we need to steadfastly preserve. Sadly, we are forced to conclude that since his '09 award ceremony Obama has definitively qualified as the world's greatest, pre-emptive warmonger. Frankly, outgunning Bush, with three new discretionary wars, fails to satisfy our notion of peacemaking. Never before has any winner -- after the fact and in only two years -- actually doubled his war production. It's a record we profoundly hope never to duplicated, forcing this singular withdrawal."

Apparently, killing civilians with unmanned predatory drones in Pakistan, Yemen, and Libya pushed the Committee over that line. "Unlike Obama or Bush, we Swedes admit blunders," explained Bjorn Bjorn, "Obama's soaring rhetoric must have come with magic dust because we, too, got enthralled by promises of new world co-operation. What were we thinking? Instead of ending warfare and violence, Obama began to notch his Bush-warrior credibility in Afghanistan. We regret that our Prize may well have provided cover for new assaults and invasions. The only good news is the 'world's self-appointed police force' hasn't yet struck Iran or North Korea."

Periodically, the Nobel Committee selections have invited strong reaction, Bjorn continued, "like selecting hard-line, Vietnam cold warrior Henry Kissinger, but never before have we honored a leader entranced with unilateral, pre-emptive civilian bombings. What's the credo here, "All we are saying is give war a chance"?

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[Celtic Rose]

Man, it is satire, I thought it might have been real for a moment 

[DumbAss Tanker]

Satire, as even the DUmmies correctly deduced in surprisingly short order.  I suppose this gave it away, even if the conversational American tone of the 'Swedish' officials didn't:

"Unlike Obama or Bush, we Swedes admit blunders," explained Bjorn Bjorn

Ain't nobody as hardheaded and unlikely to admit a mistake as a Swede, except possibly a German. 

[zeitgeist]

Satire, as even the DUmmies correctly deduced in surprisingly short order.  I suppose this gave it away, even if the conversational American tone of the 'Swedish' officials didn't:
 

Ain't nobody as hardheaded and unlikely to admit a mistake as a Swede, except possibly a German. 

Did this set a hook at the dump? ( and, Did they pull in many flounders?) I got so much going on the last few I haven't had much time to see the caged monkeys.    Inquiring minds want to know (and a link if you got one for later )

[Karin]

This is all you need to know, Zeit:

lillypaddle  (1000+ posts)      Wed Jun-22-11 12:52 PM
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5. unrec for not including "satire" in header

 

[compaqxp]

Man, it is satire, I thought it might have been real for a moment 

Really? Now I'm disappointed. I thought it was real for a minute.

[DumbAss Tanker]

Did this set a hook at the dump? ( and, Did they pull in many flounders?) I got so much going on the last few I haven't had much time to see the caged monkeys.    Inquiring minds want to know (and a link if you got one for later )

None of them bit hard before a spoilsport let the cat out of the bag.

[zeitgeist]

None of them bit hard before a spoilsport let the cat out of the bag.

Darn, that would have been a real good two minute hate.