" ... the most or the best on the Brotherhood of nations and the abolition or reduction of standing armies and the holding of or encouraged the promotion of peace congresses "and thus " last year provided the greatest benefit to mankind " has ..."
If Silvio Berlusconi , Nicolas Sarkozy and Barack Hussein Obama worthy winner? A look at the list of proposals for the year 2009 shows that 205 candidates were available. Proposals can be up to and on February 1 of a year of former Nobel laureates, members of parliament from around the world and university facilities to be submitted. Not an easy choice, because of which there are also so-called "all-time candidates," or "regular customers" as Bono (Paul David Hewson) singer of U2, who has been involved for 25 years, hunger and wars. He sat down at the G-8 summit in Genoa in 2000 for debt relief for the poorest countries in the world. Or Chinese human rights activist and dissident Hu Jia as or Wei Jingsheng , Piedad Córdoba from Colombia, the Norwegian Harpviken Sima Samar or the Coalition for the prohibition of cluster bombs .
And then think I have a list of previous winners . By and large, a list with real personalities and institutions that significant action in the sense of Alfred Nobel rendered. Mother Teresa, Lech Walesa and the United Nations Children's Fund , to name a few. But there are also the black sheep in the list, probably the blackest and most likely a wolf in sheep's clothing to be designated the Henry Kissinger. Most interesting is, however, that there has been some years that this prize was not awarded. In the days of the Second World War, this is understandable, since there was probably little reason to honor someone. But at other times were in the prices, since there was probably at or nominee, the choice was too hard? Candidates were also other "political values" such as Adolf Hitler (in 1939, when Germany began the Second World War), Benito Mussolini (1935), Josef Stalin even twice (1945 and 1948) - they got this price, fortunately never.
And so now to Barack Hussein Obama II get this price? For his, it is called officially , " extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between the nations"? I see different:
- is the war in Iraq continues unabated
- the war in Afghanistan with additional U.S. troops supported
- the war against Iran is prepared
- the support of the coup in Honduras
- support for genocide and apartheid in Palestine
- increasing the U.S. military budget to the highest level has always been
- the extension of the Patriot Act
Perhaps the Oslo Committee knew these facts and can not, then the only nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize - in my eyes now the Nobel War Prize - explain. As for the President the United States of America with the bonus of trust and starts we will see. I would have honored some more important people, nominees who have been fighting in some cases more than 25 years for their rights and those of others, or have sat for many years in prison. But I'm not the committee ...
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