# Invade a country - get nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invade-a-country-get-nominated-for-the-nobel-peace-prize/174355>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [May 10, 2003, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invade-a-country-get-nominated-for-the-nobel-peace-prize/174355 "2003-05-10T18:35:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2003, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invade-a-country-get-nominated-for-the-nobel-peace-prize/174355/21 "2003-05-12T21:15:09Z")

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> Also, remember that we just had Cuba join the Human Rights Commishion of the UN.

True, although it’s because there’s an alphabetical, rotating membership, not because everyone admires Cuba’s commitment to human rights.

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> If Dubya scores off this nomination, it’ll surely piss Jimmy Carter off as well. He had to wait 20 years after his term in office to get his.

LOL, also, Carter actually had to work for peace to get the thing. 😉

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**Author:** ![Dryga\_Yes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/838e76/32.png) [@Dryga\_Yes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dryga_Yes)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2003, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invade-a-country-get-nominated-for-the-nobel-peace-prize/174355/22 "2003-05-12T22:14:24Z")

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> …and one part to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses.

–quote from Alfred Nobel’s will.

Even if you think the war was justified, you’d have to have the mental capacity of a chimp to claim that the Iraq war fits in with the guidelines for the peace prize. Absolutely ridicolous.

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**Author:** ![ElJeffe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/958977/32.png) [@ElJeffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElJeffe)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2003, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invade-a-country-get-nominated-for-the-nobel-peace-prize/174355/23 "2003-05-12T22:53:08Z")

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> LOL, also, Carter actually had to work for peace to get the thing.

Seriously. Kissing Arafat’s and Castro’s asses for two decades can take a lot out of a man.

Jeff

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**Author:** ![Dissonance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85f322/32.png) [@Dissonance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dissonance)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2003, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invade-a-country-get-nominated-for-the-nobel-peace-prize/174355/24 "2003-05-13T02:49:18Z")

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> Perhaps my factories will put an end to war sooner than your congresses: on the day that two army corps can mutually annihilate each other in a second, all civilised nations will surely recoil with horror and disband their troops.

–Alfred Nobel

Odd sentiment for a ‘pacifist’ who was raking in the ducats from said factories.

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**Author:** ![Blalron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/35a633/32.png) [@Blalron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blalron)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invade-a-country-get-nominated-for-the-nobel-peace-prize/174355/25 "2003-05-14T23:41:55Z")

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War is Peace

Freedom is Slavery

Ignorance is Strength

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**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2003, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invade-a-country-get-nominated-for-the-nobel-peace-prize/174355/26 "2003-05-15T02:38:34Z")

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Soundbites are a good substitute for hard thinking.

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**Author:** ![lander2k2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@lander2k2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lander2k2)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2003, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invade-a-country-get-nominated-for-the-nobel-peace-prize/174355/27 "2003-05-15T03:09:13Z")

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**Sam Stone** :  
Quotes from 1984 have been reduced to “sound bites” now? Man we are in trouble.

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