Shouldn't This Person Win the Nobel Peace Prize?

[trigger]

Read below and decide whether or not this person is deserving of winning the Nobel Peace Prize based on accomplishments:

(from the Washington Post)
"....tripled direct humanitarian and development aid to the world's most impoverished continent.... and recently vowed to double that increased amount by 2010 -- to nearly $9 billion. " (This person) deserves pretty high marks in terms of increasing aid to Africa," said Steve Radelet, a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development... increased direct development and humanitarian aid to Africa to more than $4 billion a year from $1.4 billion..., according to the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development."

(from The Independent)
"A recent report from the Pew Global Attitudes Project found that "the US image is much stronger in Africa than in other regions of the world". At least 80 per cent of respondents in Ghana, Kenya and Cote d'Ivoire were favourable to the US. In all other sub-Saharan African countries polled, there were more "favourables" than "non-favourables". Part of the reason for that support is money. Lots of it. Despite rows over the programme's emphasis on abstinence and faithfulness to one partner rather than condoms to control Aids, it has helped to fund anti-retroviral (ARV) drugs for 1.3 million people across the continent. Before, the US funded ARV treatment for just 50,000 people. Taken alongside... funding for malaria prevention, plus the Millennium Challenge Accounts, which provide funding for countries with strong governance records, (this person) has done more for Africa than any other..., according to Joel Barkan, a senior associate at the Washington-based Centre for Strategic and International Studies. "I am a very severe critic...," he said, "but you cannot take away from the.... the fact that the commitment of the US, in terms of aid and debt relief, is certainly greater...."

(from The Washington Times)
"Mr. Geldof praised (this person) for his work in delivering billions to fight disease and poverty in Africa, and blasted the U.S. press for ignoring the achievement... "(This person), said Mr. Geldof, "has done more than any other... so far. This is the triumph....," he said. "It was probably unexpected.... What's in it for [this person]? Absolutely nothing," Mr. Geldof said. Mr. Geldof said that.... he is.... "pissed off" at the press for their failure to report on this good news story. "You guys didn't pay attention," Geldof said to a group of reporters from all the major newspapers.

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>>>>>>>>>>>>George W. Bush

I'm just saying...

[JaxBorn1962]

Read below and decide whether or not this person is deserving of winning the Nobel Peace Prize based on accomplishments:

(from the Washington Post)
"....tripled direct humanitarian and development aid to the world's most impoverished continent.... and recently vowed to double that increased amount by 2010 -- to nearly $9 billion. " (This person) deserves pretty high marks in terms of increasing aid to Africa," said Steve Radelet, a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development... increased direct development and humanitarian aid to Africa to more than $4 billion a year from $1.4 billion..., according to the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development."

(from The Independent)
"A recent report from the Pew Global Attitudes Project found that "the US image is much stronger in Africa than in other regions of the world". At least 80 per cent of respondents in Ghana, Kenya and Cote d'Ivoire were favourable to the US. In all other sub-Saharan African countries polled, there were more "favourables" than "non-favourables". Part of the reason for that support is money. Lots of it. Despite rows over the programme's emphasis on abstinence and faithfulness to one partner rather than condoms to control Aids, it has helped to fund anti-retroviral (ARV) drugs for 1.3 million people across the continent. Before, the US funded ARV treatment for just 50,000 people. Taken alongside... funding for malaria prevention, plus the Millennium Challenge Accounts, which provide funding for countries with strong governance records, (this person) has done more for Africa than any other..., according to Joel Barkan, a senior associate at the Washington-based Centre for Strategic and International Studies. "I am a very severe critic...," he said, "but you cannot take away from the.... the fact that the commitment of the US, in terms of aid and debt relief, is certainly greater...."

(from The Washington Times)
"Mr. Geldof praised (this person) for his work in delivering billions to fight disease and poverty in Africa, and blasted the U.S. press for ignoring the achievement... "(This person), said Mr. Geldof, "has done more than any other... so far. This is the triumph....," he said. "It was probably unexpected.... What's in it for [this person]? Absolutely nothing," Mr. Geldof said. Mr. Geldof said that.... he is.... "pissed off" at the press for their failure to report on this good news story. "You guys didn't pay attention," Geldof said to a group of reporters from all the major newspapers.

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>>>>>>>>>>>>George W. Bush

I'm just saying...

LOL

[buckethead]

George Bush was not capable of doing anything decent, noble or honorable.

Don't you idiots get it?

[JaxBorn1962]

George Bush was not capable of doing anything decent, noble or honorable.

Don't you idiots get it?

The Idiots Never get it, but good luck getting them to answer you.

[buckethead]

Woosh!

[buckethead]

It strikes me that Bush did think he was working to improve humanity.

As far as recognizing Arafat as a champion for peace, I have no problem with that, but a Nobel Peace Prize for temporarily halting a terrorist campaign seems a bit over the top. JMHO.

[buckethead]

You believe Arafat was a good candidate for a Nobel Peace Prize.

I disagree.

[kramer2k]

George Bush was not capable of doing anything decent, noble or honorable.

Don't you idiots get it?

The Idiots Never get it, but good luck getting them to answer you.

Woosh!

  That's great imagery there. 
JaxBorn, you even get a special Wiki entry for your type of fail.  Congrats.

And nice try trigger, that stuff won't get very far around here.

[trigger]

"And nice try trigger, that stuff won't get very far around here."

So, the facts won't get very far on MetroJacksonville.com? That's interesting, I didn't realize MetroJacksonville.com was an echo chamber for the political left to disillusion itself of reality.

How about this?

Carry to fruition Cold War policies that bankrupted the Soviet Union and liberate more than 100 million people from repressive Communist regimes?

Who is it?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Ronald Reagan

Liberated more than 60 million people from repressive regimes in the Iraq and Afghanistan, including over 13 million women in Afghanistan who according to IRIN:

    * Every 30 minutes, an Afghan woman dies during childbirth
    * 87 percent of Afghan women are illiterate
    * 30 percent of girls have access to education in Afghanistan
    * 1 in every 3 Afghan women experience physical, psychological or sexual violence
    * 44 years is the average life expectancy rate for women in Afghanistan
    * 70 to 80 percent of women face forced marriages in Afghanistan

Who is it?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>George W. Bush

Facts are stubborn things. Aren't these two people more deserving of receiving a Nobel Peace Prize? President Obama might earn it (I hope he does) but he hasn't earned it yet.

[Sportmotor]

Woosh!

and I laughted so hard XD!!

[Sportmotor]

I humbly think I should get the Nobel Peace Prize to be honest 

[Jody]

I humbly think I should get the Nobel Peace Prize to be honest 

hmm i humbly doubt your humbleness


Gaining cheap publicity for nominating a widely-recognized figure aside, I have a nomination to make.  I nominate Leo Szilard. 

It can be argued that no one was more instrumental in the United States developing nuclear weapons than Leo Szilard.  The United States then could not only end WWII (saving thousands of Japanese and American lives), but also be Guardians of Peace for decades into the future.

Szilard convinced, and helped, Albert Einstein write a letter to President FDR in 1939, warning him that Nazi Germany might be developing WMD.  Made aware, the USA started the Manhattan Project to create its own enriched-uranium fueled bombs.

In the course of the last four months it has been made probable â€" through the work of [Frédéric] Joliot[-Curie] in France as well as [Enrico] Fermi and Szilard in America â€" that it may become possible to set up a nuclear chain reaction in a large mass of uranium, by which vast amounts of power and large quantities of new radium-like elements would be generated. Now it appears almost certain that this could be achieved in the immediate future.

This new phenomenon would also lead to the construction of bombs, and it is conceivable â€" though much less certain â€" that extremely powerful bombs of a new type may thus be constructed. A single bomb of this type, carried by boat and exploded in a port, might very well destroy the whole port together with some of the surrounding territory. However, such bombs might very well prove to be too heavy for transportation by air.

-From the letter signed by Albert Einstein
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bf/Einstein-Roosevelt-letter.png

Here's hoping to generate intrigue with an unrecognizable name, of an incredibly important person.

[Sportmotor]

hmm i humbly doubt your humbleness

I humbly question your humblying question of my humbleness

[Jody]

hmm i humbly doubt your humbleness

I humbly question your humblying question of my humbleness

If you must nominate yourself, it is likely because nobody else will.  If you realized this, you could not honestly nominate yourself, because you would recognize the audacity and reckless abandon for humility that such a nomination would require.

Anything to say about Leo Szilard?

[Sportmotor]

Ya just gotta kill the moment dont cha?