Bill Clinton and Bradley Manning nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

[Jazzy]

A total of 231 nominees are up for the Nobel Peace Prize this year, the Nobel Institute said on Monday, with Bill Clinton, Helmut Kohl, the EU and US soldier and WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning known to be on the list.



Also on the list is jailed US soldier Manning, who has been charged with 22 counts in a US military court for turning over a massive cache of classified US documents to anti-secrecy site WikiLeaks.



Despite its current crisis the European Union is also among the candidates, as are Congolese doctor Denis Mukwege, Cuban dissidents Oswaldo Paya and Yoani Sanchez, and Russian rights group Memorial and its founder Svetlana Gannushkina.



Yet others include US political scientist Gene Sharp, known for his theory of non-violent resistance which inspired some of the key figures behind the Arab Spring, Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki who was brought to power in 2011 by the revolution in his country, and television news channel Al-Jazeera.



The winner or winners will be announced in October.



Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...ated-for-Nobel-Peace-Prize.html#disqus_thread



Question: What are your thoughts on these 'nominees'?

 

[nocturnal]

Can anyone enlighten me on what Bill Clinton did, other than go to N. Korea to get those journalists out (which was a farse to start with...)



I'm a Manning supporter myself, so I'm happy to hear that he's been nominated. But what about Assange?

 

[Jazzy]

Can anyone enlighten me on what Bill Clinton did, other than go to N. Korea to get those journalists out (which was a farse to start with...)

The name Monica Lewinsky comes to my mind. Oops...me bad. You asked what Bill Clinton did not who he did.

 

[Fatal Dawn]

He may have had the integrity of a prepubescent teenager but it's hard to deny the impact Clinton had on the economy coming out of the Great Depression, not to mention his military policies (don't ask, don tell).

Personally I'd like to see Giuliani on that list sometime.