• grte@lemmy.ca
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    They gave Kissinger a peace prize so it was already a joke tbh. I would take it as a slight to receive one.

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      The 2012 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the European Union (EU) (founded in 1958) “for over six decades [having] contributed to the advancement of peace and reconciliation, democracy and human rights in Europe” by a unanimous decision of the Norwegian Nobel Committee.

      That is a bigger joke.

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      Kissinger won in '73, right after the bombing of Cambodia. Obama in '09 as he was gassing up the jets to level Libya and butcher Afghans for another eight years. Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres and Yitzakh Rabin - three avowed terrorists - all got the prize in 1994 shortly before they fell back into their low-grade civil war. Kofi Annan and the UN won in 2001, seven years into running the phenomenally corrupt “Oil for Food” program used to loot Iraq.

      It’s a bad award for bad people.