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andrewducker ([personal profile] andrewducker) wrote2009-10-09 01:40 pm

Amusing factoid of the day

This is the second time that someone has won the Nobel Peace Prize for not being George Bush:

But the chairman of the secretive Norwegian Nobel Committee said bluntly that the award was meant to slam Bush's policy on Iraq.

"With the position Carter has taken...(the award) can and must also be seen as criticism of the line the current U.S. administration has taken on Iraq," Committee head Gunnar Berge, a former labor minister, told reporters.

[identity profile] marrog.livejournal.com 2009-10-09 12:53 pm (UTC)(link)
And the third if you count Al Gore getting it for being the only American Politician to do anything about climate change.