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Perhaps this is why Obama deserves the Nobel Peace Prize:

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Downer mocks Nobel Obama decision

UN Special Envoy for Cyprus Alexander Downer said US President Barack Obama should have been “man enough” to refuse the Nobel Peace Prize and called it the worst decision in the history of the prestigious awards.

In a column he wrote for AdelaideNow, Downer said Obama was nominated after he had been in office for just 11 weeks.

“Even now, he only has served as President of the US for 8 1/2 months and has not had anything like enough time for his policies to bear fruit,” Downer said.

“This was a very bad decision and Barack Obama should have been man enough to refuse the prize. If he had, he would have helped preserve the integrity of the Nobel Peace Prize and also demonstrate a disarming degree of modesty.”

The Cyprus envoy, who has himself been the subject of much criticism in the Cypriot media lately, added: “How could he have snatched the prize from such people as the great Zimbabwean humanitarian and champion of freedom, Morgan Tsvangiri, or the renowned Greg Mortenson, a former U.S. Army doctor who has set up schools for girls in tough, Taliban-dominated areas of Afghanistan.

“These people are real heroes; brave, decent, effective and modest contributors to a better world.

Colombian Senator Piedad Cordoba, who mediated to end the civil war in Colombia, apparently was nominated, too. But he is not on TV every night so he cannot get it.”

Downer described this year’s Nobel Peace Prize as “a hideous display of cynical politics” but does not blame Obama entirely, shifting most of it to the Nobel Peace Prize Committee.

He be moaned the fact that they never gave the prize to Mahatma Gandhi. “He was not worth it, apparently,” said Downer “But Barack Obama after just nine months in the job?”

Criticising the chairman of the Nobel Committee, Thorbjorn Jagland, with whom Downer had a run-in with in the past, he said Jaglan had made “the worst decision in Nobel Peace Prize history”.

“He has done real damage to the institution. You cannot help a fool,” concluded Downer.

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Says the double dealing double faced crook from the UN.

Sour grapes me thinks.

Perhaps Obama should donate the $1m prize money to the orphans in Iraq and Afganistan that he country has created however.

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Perhaps this is why Obama deserves the Nobel Peace Prize:

Have US-Russian relations not warmed since Obama's victory?



Hasn't the NATO missile shield on Russia's boarder been canceled thanks to Obama?

Give the man a chance.......

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Hasn't the NATO missile shield on Russia's boarder been canceled thanks to Obama?

Give the man a chance.......

US President Barack Obama’s decision to stop deployment of anti-ballistic missiles (ABM) in Eastern Europe has boosted ties with Russia, easing tensions between the East and the West and is one of the reasons Mr Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize.

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