Yeah - really. Nobel Peace Prize
The Nobel Peace Prize is an international joke. It is the only prize awarded by Norway (as opposed to the real prizes awarded by Sweden).
It seems that someone was vying for the Peace Prize -- from the
UK Telegraph:
Bashar al-Assad: The Nobel Peace Prize should have been mine
From the article:
The remark, which the Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar quoted, was made "jokingly" during a recent meeting with visitors at the presidential palace, the newspaper said.
However, it might be viewed as inappropriate when uttered by a president whose civil war has already cost more than 115,000 lives. A chemical weapons attack in Damascus in August, widely blamed on the Syrian government, reportedly killed more than 1,200 people.
They may not be the same tribe as you but those 115,000+ people were your citizens and had every right to
life,
liberty and the
pursuit of happiness... Oh, wait...
Scum sucking a**hole... Peace prize indeed.
Posted by DaveH at October 14, 2013 8:52 PM