The President of Bolivia and a political leader in Russia have launched a campaign to revoke Obama’s 2009 peace prize honor after the U.S. attack on Libya.
Liberal Democratic Party of Russia leader and Vice-Chairman of the State Duma Vladimir Zhirinovsky released a statement today calling for the Nobel Prize Committee to take back the honor bestowed on President Barack Obama in 2009.
Zhirinovsky said the attacks were “another outrageous act of aggression by NATO forces and, in particular, the United States,” and that the attacks demonstrated a “colonial policy” with “one goal: to establish control over Libyan oil and the Libyan regime.” He said the prize was now hypocritical as a result.
Bolivian President Evo Morales echoed the call: “How is it possible that a Nobel Peace Prize winner leads a gang to attack and invade? This is not a defence of human rights or self-determination.” Morales won the Gaddafi International Prize for Human Rights in 2006.
Obama is also administering wars in two other nations, Iraq and Afghanistan. In his most recent attack on a foreign nation — Libya — he failed to present his plan to the United States Congress.
On March 22nd, 2011 at 6:25 pm
The Nobel Committee should oblige. Congress has a right to scrutinize war and the sole power to declare it.
On March 23rd, 2011 at 11:56 pm
Obama may not deserve his nobel prize, but Morales and Zhirinovsky are not exactly model citizens either.
Dave
On March 31st, 2011 at 10:47 am
The purpose of the Nobel “Peace” Prize is to reward UN stooges who kill the most soldiers: “to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, the abolition or reduction of standing armies” (Excerpt from the will of Alfred Nobel) – http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/