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Date Posted: 12:36:36 05/04/02 Sat
Author: Buffy's vampire
Subject: Re: The Nobel Peace Prize
In reply to: Ralph Hamilton 's message, "The Nobel Peace Prize" on 10:07:52 05/04/02 Sat

>Hi BV,
> it is worth noting that Tom Lehrer, the
>American physics professor, turned protest-song
>folksinger, gave up singing protest-songs, at least a
>decade ago. He went back to teaching mathematics.
>
> In a recent interview, he elucidated his reasons for
>this.
>Basically, he reckoned that irony lost its bite, when
>Henry Kissinger won the Nobel Peace Prize.
>
>Tom Lehrer i tok, "inap tasol"......Ralph.

It is enough that the BV speaks in irony, Ralph. Well detected. Kissinger should be tried for crimes against humanity. The awarding of the NPP to Arafat was a cynical use of northern European 'distance' to make a statement to the United States.

Pol Pot should have been in line for one as well, if you use the bases for which the prize was awarded to Kissinger and Arafat. They start a war, and then moan about it and then try to end what they started and they get a prize.

The Nobel Peace Joke!

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