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...precipitated the war, so failure to respond was doing “positive service to wrongdoers,” he wrote. These calls for war (not to mention Roosevelt’s military history with the Rough Riders) seem to be a contradiction for the president who won the Nobel Peace Prize for mediating an end to the Russo-Japanese...
...Peace, No Prize Joe Klein suggested that if the bush Administration's long shot of pinning its hopes for Middle East peace on the "statesmanship of Hizballah and Hamas" turns out to be right, then President Bush would deserve the Nobel Peace Prize [March 21]. That contention would be laughable if it were not so sad. Bush used lies and distortions to make a case for the invasion of Iraq. After 9/11, Bush had a golden opportunity to strengthen global alliances. He could have rallied the world around the use of multilateral military and intelligence resources to address terrorism...
...KLEIN SUGGESTED THAT IF THE Bush Administration's long shot of pinning its hopes for Middle East peace on the "statesmanship of Hizballah and Hamas" turns out to be right, then President Bush would deserve the Nobel Peace Prize [March 21]. That contention would be laughable if it were not so sad. Bush used lies and distortions to make a case for the invasion of Iraq. After 9/11, he had a golden opportunity to strengthen global alliances. He could have rallied the world around the use of multilateral military and intelligence resources to address terrorism. For that, he would have...
GEORGE W. BUSH AND THE NOBEL PEACE Prize? That sound you hear is the world, and the Nobel selection committee in particular, laughing...
...Mohandas Gandhi and Nelson Mandela were unusually reserved people and may have achieved far less if they'd been otherwise. "There's no question in my mind that T.S. Eliot would have qualified as one of the [shy] kids in our study," says Kagan. "Yet he also won a Nobel Prize." --Reported by Sandra Marquez/ Los Angeles, Mimi Murphy/ Rome, Sora Song/ New York and Cindy Waxer/ Toronto