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The Sydney (ap)Peace(ment) Prize : Comments

By Jonathan J. Ariel, published 28/11/2007

Hans Blix’s Peace Prize does not appropriately reflect his history of excusing Saddam Hussein’s tyranny for 12 long years.

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Sour grapes all the way down.
Perhaps Jonathan is upset that the prize wasnt awarded to the great peace (piece)#1-makers George Bush or Cheney or Rumsfield?

Also where does terror really come from?
Does it only come from them?
Are we really the good guys?
How come the good guys account for over 50% of the worlds armaments trade? The USA being by far the biggest player and "peace"-loving Britain being one of the big players.

#1 piece-makers Shock and awe certainly made lots of bloodied PIECES or mince-meat out of thousands of human bodies.

If anyone still thinks (or ever did) that we invaded Iraq out of "humanitarian" concerns then they are seriously deluded.

Meanwhile this reference gives a very sobering assessment of the state of the world.

1. http://www.ispeace723.org/anthroposphere2.html

It is interesting that those on the "right", wherever they are culturally and geographically, are all actively promoting the various pathologies criticised in this essay.
Posted by Ho Hum, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 9:29:06 AM
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George Patton was definitely a hero of the moment in his time and place of Europe in World War 2

We now live in a totally different world.
A world where the multiple contexts of any and every particular crisis are completely different to anything that has occurred previously, including World War 2.

And lets not forget it was the collective psycho-pathology of European white man that gave us both of the world wars. It wasnt just the Germans who were insane.

A quantum world in which everything is interconnected via instantaneous communication and rapid mass world wide travel.

A world in which one false move could easily trigger off multiple escalations and cause world war three, which will be the last world war.

Indeed the author of the reference in my first post has pointed out that there have been numerous occasions in the past 15 years or so when WW3 almost started. The Kosovo crisis. Two or three times in Iraq. Two or three times in Israel/Palestine. And even that event a few years back when a USA spy plane crash landed in China.
Posted by Ho Hum, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 9:49:17 AM
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Wow, up to your usual standard Jonathon! Perhaps you'd better do us all a favour by deconstructing Bernie Banton and exposing his role in maligning the good corporate citizens at James Hardie. Should be a natural for an "economist and financial analyst" with a Masters in Bull.... and Acrimony.
Posted by mike-servethepeople, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 10:24:12 AM
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Silly Hans was looking in the wrong place for WMD (or was he?):

http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Israel/index.html

For in the entire middle east, there is only one facility which is entirely devoted to the perfection of nuclear weapons. Here the artisans of the apocalypse lovingly perfect their art - away from the prying eyes of snoopy old El Baradai - cosseted by averted eyes and political sleight of hand.

At Dimona, hypocrisy has no currency.

http://www.jfkmontreal.com/dimona.htm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3640613.stm

Here's another hitpiece on Blix, but a little less thinly disguised:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1839127/posts

In expert hands, hypocrisy is a weapon -

- because it is so injurious to the human soul and spirit.
Posted by Chris Shaw, Carisbrook 3464, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 10:33:26 AM
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You're right. Great piece. Hans Blix reminds me of Neville Chamberlain too. He'd appease Hitler's Germany (if he hadn't been killed by those "wicked" American warmongers)
Posted by History Buff, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 3:51:58 PM
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Ho Hum,

Sour Grapes? There can be little doubt that Hans Blix was not very good at his job, which was to find and eradicate WMD. The sole reason for the soft-lefters support for Blix was that he stood up to the coalition which wanted to get on with the job of regime change in Iraq.

Your pathetic comments that the author would prefer to see Bush win a peace prize is infantile in the extreme. Perhaps you can try and address the concerns of the article.

You will notice that the world’s largest economies are also generally the largest suppliers of military hardware, excluding of course Germany and Japan for obvious reasons. The soft brained among us may imagine that the weapons manufacturing results in the large economies. Clearly it is the other way around. Advanced and highly technical economies are more likely to manufacture high tech weaponry.

No one thinks we invaded Iraq for purely humanitarian reasons. There were many influencing factors in the decision to invade Iraq. To narrow it down to any one thing is making a complex issue simple for a political purpose.

Ho Hum>> And lets not forget it was the collective psycho-pathology of European white man that gave us both of the world wars.

Are you joking or are you just insane? It is easy to argue that WW2 had its genesis in Versailles in 1919, however in both cases German expansionism was at the root of the problem. To suggest that all European white men were responsible for both wars is not only racist, it is FEEBLE in the extreme.

Chris,

Wrong again. The Iranians are attempting to produce nuclear weapons at this very moment. Israel’s nukes are, in any case, irrelevant to a discussion on Hans Blix.

The very real failure of the IAEA to detect Iraq’s nuclear weapons program makes their current assessment that Iran is still years away from making a bomb all the harder to take comfort in.

Whats even more astounding is the recent claims by some soft-lefters that Saddam NEVER had any WMD programs
Posted by Paul.L, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 4:32:06 PM
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