Petraeus for the Nobel Prize?
The New York Sun editorializes that Gen. David Petraeus be nominated for Nobel Peace Prize for his attempts to “save the nation of Iraq”:
We advance the name of General Petraeus this year because he has come to personify the GI Joes and GI Janes of whom he is in command. He has breasted an extraordinary amount of obloquy on behalf of their, and our country’s, cause and courage. This was put into sharp relief during his appearance last month before the Congress, where his honor and patriotism were questioned. […]
General Petraeus is just trying to save the nation of Iraq from the competing death cults of fanatical Shiism and fanatical Sunnism. He has already achieved something that had eluded his predecessors in command — he’s winning a war against Al Qaeda, working with local tribes toward preventing a confessional civil war from escalating and protecting whole neighborhoods in Baghdad from ethnic cleansers.
In September, the Sun wrote an editorial pushing Petraeus for President.
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Someone please tell me how someone who is part of a campaign that has resulted in the deaths of a million of the very civilians that he’s supposed to be ’saving’ can possibly be even considered for a Nobel Peace Prize by even an organization as delusional as the Sun?
October 11th, 2007 at 3:20 pmoh, yeah, just what we need… an alternative proposal is that petraeus be nominated for the nobel prize for advanced political propaganda…
October 11th, 2007 at 3:20 pmAnd, yes, I DO take it personally
THE NEW YORK SUN LEGITIMIZES THEIR OWN ILLEGITIMACY…
THIS PROPAGANDIST RAG WILL BE HELD UP TO THE LIGHT OF DEMOCRACY IN THE FUTURE AS AN EXAMPLE OF THE MADNESS THAT WAS THE ATTEMPTED FASCIST TAKEOVER OF BUSH ET AL.
October 11th, 2007 at 3:20 pmPresident, Peace Prize Winner, Jesus
Dude has a lot of titles.
October 11th, 2007 at 3:21 pm“I think I’m going to barf” - Marge, “Fargo”
October 11th, 2007 at 3:22 pmA war monger cannot get a PEACE prize!!! War is NOT peace!!
October 11th, 2007 at 3:22 pmThe medium is the message. And the bullshit medium is the bullshit message, as in this NY Sun pronouncement.
October 11th, 2007 at 3:24 pmThere’s nothing peaceful about Betrayus. If it’s the Nobel Warmonger Prize
October 11th, 2007 at 3:25 pmthen he’d be a sure winner.
That’s plus-good doublethink if I ever saw it!
October 11th, 2007 at 3:27 pmWell, Patreaus won’t get the Nobel Prize in Science because he has trouble with his fuzzy math. And he won’t get the Nobel Prize in Physics because he doesn’t know that politics and military activities don’t mix.
I guess that all that leaves is the Peace Prize.
October 11th, 2007 at 3:27 pmThe Nobel prizes are handed out by a panel of distinguished people. Not the New York Sun.
October 11th, 2007 at 3:29 pmHe will get the Nobel prize the day after King George the Dumb is selected supreme leader of Mensa.
October 11th, 2007 at 3:31 pm.
A Peace Prize for the General of a combat objective lacking a Peace Keeping Mission?
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October 11th, 2007 at 3:31 pmThe N.Y Sun is ineligible to nominate Petraeus.
Fortunately.
Maybe they can put him up for the related Ig Nobel peace prize.
Cheers,
October 11th, 2007 at 3:35 pmHow to win a Nobel Peace Prize:
October 11th, 2007 at 3:35 pm1) Invade sovereign country based on misinformation
2) Fu(k up sovereign country
3) Have boss say “Mission Accomplished”
4) Ignore problem for a couple years
5) Attempt to solve problem by throwing money at problem. Kill sovereign country’s civilians (attain help from “private security firm” if needed)
6) Accept Peace Prize
7) Pat self on back
He has already achieved something that had eluded his predecessors in command — he’s winning a war against Al Qaeda
What? No, no he’s not. Al-Qa’ida needs to be in Iraq in order to be defeatable.
That’s like beating a Rolling Stones tribute band in a talent contest and saying your band defeated the Rolling Stones.
October 11th, 2007 at 3:36 pmRowdy: “A war monger cannot get a PEACE prize!!! War is NOT peace!!”
Didn’t you get the GWB memo? War is peace, incompetence is expertise and lies are truth.
October 11th, 2007 at 3:36 pmAs a New Yorker I can say that I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone reading the New York Sun. So… whatever.
October 11th, 2007 at 3:37 pmdim wit: I always love your posts.
October 11th, 2007 at 3:37 pmCan we nominate him for deus ex machina too?
October 11th, 2007 at 3:38 pmAnd his prize will be 1,000 pounds of Mr. Nobel’s very old, very unstable dynamite, stuffed in his tighty whities.
October 11th, 2007 at 3:38 pmAnybody can nominate anybody for the Nobel Peace Prize. Heck, I remember one year when some bozo even nominated Rush Limbaugh. This doesn’t mean the nominee will get the award, or even have a fighting chance for it.
The panel making the decision as to who gets the award takes their job very seriously. Promoting peace is a primary consideration, and those who “promote peace” by waging war are discounted pretty early in the process. I would bet that anybody connected with our occupation in a country we invaded for no good reason will not be selected for the prize.
October 11th, 2007 at 3:44 pm“obloquy” WTF?
October 11th, 2007 at 3:45 pmI notice that they did not mention that he LOST all those weapons?
There are other things as well, but this alone should be enough.
Comment by RemoveBush — October 11, 2007 @ 3:44 pm
And he was in charge of training all those Iraqi policemen in 18 months (About 16 of them, if we count some of them twice).
October 11th, 2007 at 3:46 pmIn the world of the twisted GOP, war is peace, so why wouldn’t someone that makes war get a peace prize? The GOP needs a giant couch, and continent’s worth of MEDS!
October 11th, 2007 at 3:47 pm#21 Missmolly:
Anybody can nominate anybody for the Nobel Peace Prize. Heck, I remember one year when some bozo even nominated Rush Limbaugh. This doesn’t mean the nominee will get the award, or even have a fighting chance for it.
No. See my link above.
Cheers,
October 11th, 2007 at 3:50 pmGood to hear the Nobel Peace Prize voters got a good laugh at the Petraeus nomination. Let’s see General Petraeus came in charge after many others stopped following Bush orders. Petraeus lost or sold 190,000 weapons/vest/bullets as there now in the hands of the enemy, gave a speech under oath written by they White House. Oh yes the letter to a Saddam spy for the United States who gave information from the top ranks of Saddam’s army and was told by Petraeus in letter form that he would not face charges and he could come home with the full protection of himself and the United States of America for a job well done.
Now this Saddam spy for the US will be put to death.
So much for the word of the US and General Petraeus. Oh and today’s news of the Marines who want to come home.
Yes what a great guy to give the Nobel Peace Prize to.
October 11th, 2007 at 3:53 pmHe’s done nothing be what he’s told by the criminal White House and agrees to torture of woman and children. Looks like the trash basket has some paper in it.
Oh, gag me.
October 11th, 2007 at 3:55 pmJust one in a long list of wacky nominations throughout history.
October 11th, 2007 at 3:58 pmAnother brilliant idea brought to you by Big Brother and the Ministry of Truth!
October 11th, 2007 at 4:00 pmIsn’t the Sun’s editorial board funded by the Cheeney Whitehouse???
October 11th, 2007 at 4:02 pmYes, he should receive the “shock and awe” version of the Nobel Peace Prize. Those 600,000 dead Iraqis certainly are at peace, you have to admit.
October 11th, 2007 at 4:07 pmComment by Arne Langsetmo — October 11, 2007 @ 3:50 pm
You’re right — I stand corrected. I should have just stuck with “anybody can be nominated”.
This renders the Sun pitch as even MORE irrelevant — if that’s possible.
October 11th, 2007 at 4:10 pm“David H. Petraeus
Washington Post
Sunday, September 26, 2004; Page B07
BAGHDAD — Helping organize, train and equip nearly a quarter-million of Iraq’s security forces is a daunting task…Nonetheless, there are reasons for optimism. Today approximately 164,000 Iraqi police and soldiers (of which about 100,000 are trained and equipped)”
i would like to retroactively nominate him for the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize. (is there a Nobel Prize for Made-Up or B.S. Statistics?)
October 11th, 2007 at 4:11 pmWonderful! Let’s nominate a war-monger for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Typical right-wing logic.
October 11th, 2007 at 4:17 pmIs the Sun accredited to nominate someone for a Nobel Prize?
October 11th, 2007 at 4:18 pmIf not, then their nomination doesn’t mean squat.
Sure; he’ll get it right after I win the Preakness.
October 11th, 2007 at 4:19 pm“A war monger cannot get a PEACE prize!!! War is NOT peace!!”
Tell that to Henry Kissinger.
October 11th, 2007 at 4:20 pmWAR MOGERING is NOT PEACE.
Buck Fush
October 11th, 2007 at 4:24 pmA war monger cannot get a PEACE prize!!! War is NOT peace!!
Comment by Rowdy — October 11, 2007 @ 3:22 pm
I love the irony.
October 11th, 2007 at 4:24 pmReal likely.
October 11th, 2007 at 4:43 pmsay it ain’t so.. If it is so, WTF are they smoking? the worst nomination since Kissinger.
October 11th, 2007 at 4:44 pmTell that to Henry Kissinger.
Comment by kist93 — October 11, 2007 @ 4:20 pm
Ah, what?
October 11th, 2007 at 4:47 pmHello, hello .. kist93 … are you out there?
October 11th, 2007 at 4:52 pmsave the nation huh? he sure is so the zionists(israel) can get what they have been wanting for years. murdering what he thinks are indigenous people. and plant our flag and call it the ameriraq.
October 11th, 2007 at 5:02 pmTell that to Henry Kissinger.
Comment by kist93 — October 11, 2007 @ 4:20 pm
Ah, what?
Comment by Shayne — October 11, 2007 @ 4:47 pm
Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho ( Vietnams Diplomat ) shared the Nobel Peace prize in 1973.
October 11th, 2007 at 5:09 pm#36 NoOneYouKnow:
Sure; he’ll get it right after I win the Preakness.
Who’s your jockey? Word of advice, it’s a shorter race than the KD or Belmont; don’t save yourself up, go for broke. ;-)
Cheers,
October 11th, 2007 at 5:10 pmAs a New Yorker I can say that I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone reading the New York Sun. So… whatever.
Comment by lefty — October 11, 2007 @ 3:37 pm
I second that. AM NY/Metro… yup
October 11th, 2007 at 5:17 pmNY Times…. check
Daily News….check
Hell even the NY Post, but I have honestly seen more people on the subway reading Korean newspapers than the NY Sun.
Wow, that’s the biggest bunch of hooey I have read in a long time.
General Petraeus is just trying to save the nation of Iraq from the competing death cults of fanatical Shiism and fanatical Sunnism.
Betrayus is trying to save Iraq from the terror we unleashed upon that nation? How is he doing that? All he seems to be doing is killing Iraqi’s and getting our soldiers killed.
The Right is just about apoplectic right now because there’s a very good chance that Al Gore is going to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. I will happily watch to see their heads explode if that happens.
October 11th, 2007 at 5:45 pmIt was just a typo, he was nominated for the Noble Prize, for the Nobleman who does the most heroic effort to cover the inbred POS King’s back. Keep the serfs down, taxes up….
Like the Sheriff of Nottingham.
October 11th, 2007 at 5:54 pmI figure that Petraeus is behind Hitler and Stalin, but ahead of GWB and Deadeye in the Nobel Peace Prize polls.
October 11th, 2007 at 6:38 pmHi all.
October 11th, 2007 at 9:26 pmI nominate the Arabs in Darfur. By slaughtering tens of thousands, they actually are easing starvation for the survivors.
October 12th, 2007 at 12:03 amPeace Prize? Must be kidding!
October 12th, 2007 at 1:33 amIsn’t he (Petraeus) part of the gang responsible for almost 4,000 American casualties and over 50,000 wounded?
By the way, I think that each soldier who returns wounded from the war should go first to the White House, to take a picture with George Bush and Cheney.
Those pictures should be exposed in the Oval Office and in the VP’s office, to daily remind the gang of how many people were killed because of their “special interests.”
I wasn’t aware the Nobel prize for lyingbastard was awarded.
October 12th, 2007 at 2:13 amBULLSHIT !!
∞
October 12th, 2007 at 2:15 am… Huh … so the National Enquirer changed it’s name to the New York Sun…
October 12th, 2007 at 3:55 amPRIZE FOR SUBTLE CONGRESS INSTEAD
October 12th, 2007 at 9:08 amI’ve seen nothing here so far about the bipartisan Congressional resolution condemning Ottoman Turkish genocide of Armenians. Turkey has already recalled their ambassador to the US. Turkey just MIGHT shut down the US logistics route to Iraq. Most supplies heading into Iraq are hauled through Turkey. Ruining US-Turkey relations and shutting down that supply route will be a subtle and effective way of starving the US military machine and ending the occupation, eh?
Big shock that fox started talking about this not long after.
They are both after all controled by Murduch.
October 12th, 2007 at 7:36 pm