Putin Wins a Peace Prize for a Decision to Go to War - New England Patriots Forums

***IcyPatriot*** · 11-27-2011, 10:35 AM

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/16/wo...utin.html?_r=1

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BEIJING — The Chinese committee that awarded this year’s Confucius Peace Prize minced no words in honoring the winner, Vladimir V. Putin, prime minister of Russia.

It praised his decision to go to war in Chechnya in 1999.

“His iron hand and toughness revealed in this war impressed the Russians a lot, and he was regarded to be capable of bringing safety and stability to Russia,” read an English version of the committee’s statement. “He became the antiterrorist No. 1 and the national hero.”

Not only that, it applauded him for “acting as the propagandist of current political events” while still in high school, and for being selected to join the K.G.B. while in college, “which made true his teenage dream of joining the K.G.B.” Much later, of course, came the “large-scale military action towards the illegal armed forces in Grozny, Chechnya.”

PatriotsReign · 11-27-2011, 11:02 AM

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Originally Posted by IcyPatriot

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/16/wo...utin.html?_r=1

Are you surprised China would do this Icy?

Condoning suppression within one's own borders is right up China's alley! As is spying upon your own citizens. Putin is "China's kind of guy"!

***Harry Boy*** · 11-27-2011, 11:41 AM

Didn't they give Obama THE LOON NOBEL PEACE PRIZE, he's got 3 or 4 wars going and he's "droning" civilians, didn't he just send Troops to Africa?

***IcyPatriot*** · 11-27-2011, 12:49 PM

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Originally Posted by PatriotsReign

Are you surprised China would do this Icy?

Condoning suppression within one's own borders is right up China's alley! As is spying upon your own citizens. Putin is "China's kind of guy"!

Helps explain why they are buddies ... China cannot launch wars but Russia can.

Not that we are any better ... that needs to be said also.

PatriotsReign · 11-27-2011, 01:01 PM

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Originally Posted by IcyPatriot

Helps explain why they are buddies ... China cannot launch wars but Russia can.

Not that we are any better ... that needs to be said also.

Imagine the world without militaries and wars...

"Some people say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one...."

***Nikolai*** · 11-27-2011, 02:12 PM

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Originally Posted by PatriotsReign

Imagine the world without militaries and wars...

Might actually be a dated reference, but oh well...

As for Putin, yeah, bang up job waging peace in Chechnya. Were it not for a brilliant (and rather fortuitous) operation by the FSB in 2006, that war would still be going now and we'd be talking about Al Qaeda's new base in the Caucasus.

***DarrylS*** · 11-27-2011, 02:23 PM

Confusius Peace Prize, sounds like the Confusius Cluster Fock..

Confucius Peace Prize - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Dissident Liu Xiaobo had won the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize two months earlier and that award ceremony was held on December 10;[10] the awarding of the prize to Liu was viewed negatively in China, with some in the government arguing that Liu did not promote "international friendship, disarmament, and peace meetings", the stated goal of the Nobel Peace Prize.[

In September 2011, the Ministry of Culture stated that it would be disbanding the organisers of Confucius Peace Prize and cancelling the prize.[3] The Ministry cited a news conference on September 17 that had not been approved, and the improper used of the ministry's name.[6] The Chinese Folk Art Association was quick to blame a "rogue department" for the debacle surrounding the award.[4]

Despite the cancellation, on November 15, 2011, The Guardian reported that the original organizers had formed a new committee, the China International Peace Studies Center, in Hong Kong, where they awarded the second Confucius Peace Prize to Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin. Putin beat out Angela Merkel, Bill Gates, Jacob Zuma, Kofi Annan, Yuan Longping, the Gyaincain Norbu (one of the Panchen Lamas), and Soong Chu-yu for his opposition to NATO involvement in the 2011 Libyan Civil War as well as his decision to go to war in Chechnya in 1999.[1

Real World · 11-27-2011, 03:40 PM

China must be on the board at Nobel.

The Brandon Five · 11-27-2011, 08:50 PM

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Originally Posted by PatriotsReign

Are you surprised China would do this Icy?

Condoning suppression within one's own borders is right up China's alley! As is spying upon your own citizens. Putin is "China's kind of guy"!

The Russians can also help teach them how to take sex slavery to the next level (Russian mafia are brutally efficient at it). All those surplus males are going to create a lot of demand.