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Old 2009-10-14, 03:05   Link #4339
james0246
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^Please actually look into all the past laureates, not just the American presidents. Many of them did not accomplish anything specific by the time they received their awards. Rather, they won solely because they were attempting to advance the cause of peace, not because they had brought peace to any specific land (Roosevelt was actually the first individual to receive the award for actually brokering a peace deal between 2 warring nations; the previous recipients had only set-up potentially helpful organizations, or done basic things to advance the cause of peace).

In the end, Obama's win is surprising, but it is in no way a real deficit to his cause, or America's cause in the world, and it is certainly not bribery.

I do not want to divert the thread any further, so I will bow out.
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