British Court Rules Gore's Convenient Lie Wrong on 11 Counts

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
but the reality is that it really ends up being an award for who has done most good according to the values of Western democracies.

Then it should be renamed.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Why? There are plenty of people who believe if everyone has the values of Western democracies there will be more peace .

[DinoDoc]

Why?

You tell me with a straight face what exactly Gore did last year to advance the cause of peace.

There are plenty of people who believe if everyone has the values of Western democracies there will be more peace

Why didn't Bush win if that were the case?

[Imran Siddiqui]

People tend to believe that going to war to benefit your friends in the military-industrial complex isn't part of the values of Western democracies... even if it is an understood fact .

[DinoDoc]

He went to war in order to spread the light of Western values to an area of the world who had been passed by the so-called Democratic waves for far to long. Bush is only trying to advance the cause of peace by bringing light to the darkness. My God! Coming up with bull**** reasons why someone should win is much easier than I thought.

You still didn't answer the top question though. It's OK. I couldn't come up with one either.

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Shrapnel12
Gore is a hack and the Nobel peace prize is a farce.

You aren't familiar with the history of the prize, are you? I refer you to, e.g., the 1973 prize.

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker
You aren't familiar with the history of the prize, are you? I refer you to, e.g., the 1973 prize.

1973 - Shared by Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and North Vietnam's Le Duc Tho who declined the prize. The pair negotiated the Vietnam peace accord in 1973.

http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSL1240551120071012

[MarkG]

Originally posted by Cort Haus
Well, he has saved the world from ManBearPig.

SP has got to do a sequel of that episode now

[Kuciwalker]

With more appropriate bolding:

Originally posted by DinoDoc
1973 - Shared by Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and North Vietnam's Le Duc Tho who declined the prize. The pair negotiated the Vietnam peace accord in 1973.

http://www.reuters.com/article/topNe...40551120071012

[DinoDoc]

I'd say that my bolding was better as it actually provided a reason to award the prize.

[Kuciwalker]

Whereas mine demonstrated clearly how farcical it was

There's a reason political satire was declared obsolete that year

[Straybow]

If Algore had an ounce of integrity he'd decline. We're stooping low if Le Duc Tho becomes a model of integrity.

[Straybow]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
[q=Shrapnel12]How many wars have started over global warming?

Wars haven't been fought over scarce resources in the past? [/Q]
Exactly what resources are to be made scarce by global warming? Low-lying property will be inundated, but that doesn't decrease the coastline. Who's going to fight over it?

[Imran Siddiqui]

Exactly what resources are to be made scarce by global warming?

Seriously? The next Mid East war will probably be over water (one can make an argument that some of the previous wars in the last 50 years have had water as a prime consideration as well). Already in parts of the US, things are getting hairy... Georgia may be forced to invade North Carolina or something .


And I fail to see how people can go ape **** over this one and yet think Mother Teresa's prize was ok. Yes, she alleviated poverty. That's a great thing... but for a peace prize? Or Hell, the ILO in '69.

[DanS]

What a farce! Who are the voters for this?

It's a shame that the other prizes get dragged down with it, though.