TAKING THE PRIZE

ONE OF DICK Cheney’s sparring partners on WMD in Iraq just won the Nobel Peace Prize. [story]  No word on where Cheney placed in the running behind El Baradei.  Cheney, if you will, will clearly reconstitute his efforts to win the prize in the future.  We don’t want the next smoking gun of Cheney’s attempts to win the prize to be a nuclear cloud.

EL BARADEI HAS NEVER been proven to have not referred to Richard Cheney as  “the dick.”  Rumors that Nobel Prize winner El Baradei said the dick could never win the prize have not been confirmed in Prague.  Nor could rumors that ElBaradei said Iraqi agents met with the dick. The dick was unavailable for comment.

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[Maha] Mohamed ElBaradei, you might recall, is the same guy who, before the Iraq invasion, did everything but stand on his head and whistle Dixie to warn that Saddam Hussein did not have nuclear weapons capability (see old Mahablog post on this here).

[Just One Minute] People will remember El Baradei from last October, when the WaPo suggested he might be trying to influence the US election.  (OK, we had been screaming that as well, and let's note the denial.)
Needless to say, for the Nobel Committee that was not a bug, it was a feature.

THE HERETIK REMEMEMBERS El Baradei and Dick Cheney hopes the world forgets him as soon as possible. 

THE FAILURE [Jay Tea/Wizbang] The International Atomic Energy Agency has to be one of the biggest jokes in the world today. Charged with enforcing the Non-Proliferation Treaty and shepherding research and development of nuclear power into peaceful paths, they have a stellar record of accomplishments.
Unfortunately, that stellar record is of failures.

[Firedog Lake] Poor Bushie. If he had only listened to ElBaradei back in 2002 about Iraq having no working nuclear program, instead of Cheney's band of merry neocons who said we would find nukes and WMDs everywhere (um...good call, that...not), we might not be so bogged down in Iraq.

THE HERETIK BELIEVES it doesn’t matter whether Bush listened to El Baradei.  Bush was too busy not listening to everybody else as well.  Not listening is hard work.

Comments

[Tom Maguire]

Cheney, if you will, will clearly reconstitute his efforts to win the prize in the future.

I disagree. And you'll find the CIA, for example, and other key parts of our intelligence community disagree.