Barely in office, the formerly esteemed Nobel Prize Committee crowned him as a great man.
The following year, 2005, the Norwegian Nobel Prize Committee also no fan of Bush awarded ElBaradei and the IAEA the Nobel Peace Prize.
The Nobel Peace Prize Committee is called upon to play close attention.
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In the event that Iran is attacked, as his duplicitous behavior ahead of the US-led invasion of Iraq demonstrates clearly, that war will be launched and fought against the backdrop of international condemnation led by ElBaradei and his nuclear proliferating supporters at the IAEA, the Nobel Peace Prize Committee and the UN.
In awarding the prize, the Nobel Committee stated that democracy and peace cannot be achieved unless women have the same opportunities and rights as men.
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Why did the Nobel committee give the peace prize to someone who hasn't even been in office for a year?
Notwithstanding a Nobel Peace Prize (given by an awards committee avowedly anxious to rebuke President Bush) and assorted good works on behalf of Habitat for Humanity, his role as a tyrant-enabler will be an object of scorn and derision rather than the vindication he so transparently, and desperately, seeks.
In a few hours, the Norwegian Nobel Committee will award its famed Peace Prize.
The Nobel Committee has again awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics to an economist who helped shatter the Keynesian consensus.
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In an interview with the BBC, Mr Barroso said that in awarding the prize to the EU, the Nobel Committee was saying that the European project should be cherished, both within and beyond Europe.
He came to office promising climate change and, according to the committee that awards the annual Nobel Peace Prize, in nine short months in office he has achieved it.
Couple that with the words in the Norwegian Nobel Committee's citation that the peace prize is being awarded to Obama "for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and co-operation between peoples" and that they have "attached special importance to Obama's vision of and work for a world without nuclear weapons, " and the message is clear.
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel peace prize for 2005 is to be shared, in two equal parts, between the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and its director general, Mohamed ElBaradei, for their efforts to prevent nuclear energy from being used for military purposes and to ensure that nuclear energy for peaceful purposes is used in the safest possible way.
Instead, the Nobel committee said the EU had won the peace prize for its role in uniting the continent over the last six decades.
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Carter got a Nobel Peace Prize for his (although the chairman of the awarding committee in Oslo made clear that an even more important reason was to poke a finger in George Bush's eye).
What does the Nobel Committee really wish to achieve, awarding the EU the prize?
The controversial leader of the Russian Liberal Party, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, said in a statement on Monday that he will ask the Nobel Committee to strip President Barack Obama of the Nobel Peace Prize.
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The Norwegian Nobel Committee's dubious decision to award its 1997 Peace Prize to Jody Williams of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines could prove the adage that many a dark cloud has a silver lining.
Awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to US President Barack Obama in 2009 failed to achieve what the committee hoped it would, its ex-secretary has said.
His boss, Ashok Singhal, told a gathering of VHP faithful in December that Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen was helping Christianize India by advocating universal literacy--Christian schools presumably would do the job--and that the Nobel committee was in on the plot, having already given a peace prize to that famous Christian troublemaker Mother Teresa (Singhal subsequently denied the statement).
Crucially, recipients earn the prize for inspired contributions that have yet to be experimentally verified, a tactic the Nobel committee eschews.
When the Nobel committee was not willing to follow his suggestion of the creation of a new Nobel Prize for Agriculture, Dr. Borlaug created his own award.
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