Tony Blair wins 2010 Liberty Medal award for work on peace

[muriel_volestrangler]

Source: The Guardian

Tony Blair, in his inevitable career progression from world leader to elder statesman, picks up another award, this time the 2010 Liberty Medal, a prize given annually by the National Constitution Centre in Philadelphia.

In announcing the $100,000 prize, Philadelphia's mayor Michael Nutter praised Blair's "relentless pursuit of a long-elusive peace in Northern Ireland as British prime minister and his dedication to the Middle East peace process".
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Blair's peace efforts in the Middle East presumably don't encompass his support for the US invasion of Iraq in 2003. Philadelphia blogger Duncan Black noted: "I guess Tony Blair won this for his success in helping to liberate souls from the earthly existence."

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/richard-adams-blog/2010/jun/30/tony-blair-liberty-medal-award-2010

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Indeed, the press release goes on for many paragraphs, without mentioning Iraq in any form. Maybe it should be renamed the Collective Amnesia Medal, or the Basil Fawlty Medal ("whatever you do, don't mention the war!").

I'm so pleased to see that to give Blair a medal for 'liberty', you must be a Nutter, though.

[bemildred]

1. I think I'm going to puke. nt

[rurallib]

2. Ironically ironic

Next: Tony Hayward wins environmental award.

[bongbong]

3. Irony already died

Remember the ancient chestnut "Irony died the day Kissinger got the Nobel Peace Prize."?

[marasinghe]

7. thanks for the memories.

so tony joins henry in the 'mass murdering elder statesmen with peace prizes' hall of fame.
the award for the chimp in the low expectations category should be coming through any day now.

[valerief]

9. War is peace, after all. nt

[katty]

4. surely they jest?!!! WTF?!

[EmeraldCityGrl]

5. Another attempt to rewrite history. Blair is a murderer and all the medals

in the world won't change that.

[Tempest]

6. Another medal that isn't worth a crap

Just like the Medal of Freedom that Bush handed out to war criminals.

[valerief]

8. It must a some kind of joke award, right? nt

[dixiegrrrrl]

10. It was a consolation prize. They wouldn't let him enter the Crufts show

in the poodle group.

[amandabeech]

26. Standard, miniature or toy?

Personally, I think that Tony'd fit right in with the toy group.

[dixiegrrrrl]

43. Agreed.

[PSPS]

11. Medals ain't what they used to be. (Obama and his "Nobel peace prize" too.)

[billymayshere]

12. This is a joke right?

[IcyPeas]

13. ummmm, President Obama won the nobel prize for peace...

[ProudDad]

28. And Obama used the opportunity

to justify the extension of his shiny new FUCKING WAR...

At least Kissinger had the good taste not to PISS ON THE PRIZE WHILE RECEIVING IT...

:nuke:

[Solly Mack]

14. ROFSMAO

[BumRushDaShow]

15. WTF is wrong with my city?

:banghead:

[rpannier]

16. Past medal winners include

1997 CNN International

2000 Dr. James Watson and Dr. Francis Crick, co-discoverers of the structure of DNA (joint prize)
Great discovery. But a prize from an organization dedicated to increasing public understanding of the U.S. Constitution and the ideas and values it represents?

2002 Colin Powell, U.S. Secretary of State

2003 Sandra Day O'Connor, Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court

2004 Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan

2006 George H.W. Bush and William J. Clinton, former U.S. Presidents (joint prize)

2009 Steven Spielberg

[liberation]

17. Shouldn't organization be even remotely acquainted with the meaning of the achievements

they give medals for?

[ProudDad]

29. Hey, 2 out of the 8 ain't that bad...

NOT!

[No Elephants]

32. Speilberg must be at least a little embarrassed to be in that group.

[Nihil]

37. What an interesting list of "winners"?!

> 2002 Colin Powell, U.S. Secretary of State
> 2003 Sandra Day O'Connor, Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court
> 2004 Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan
> 2006 George H.W. Bush and William J. Clinton, former U.S. Presidents (joint prize)

In this respect, Blair fits right in as he is a treacherous, two-faced
murdering SOB who was the primary enabler of G.W.Bush *outside* the USA.

:mad:

[mike_c]

18. words fail me....

:puke:

[Lucky Luciano]

19. Since when does The Onion qualify as Latest Breaking News??!! nt

[No Elephants]

33. Beat me to it.

My thought was "I didn't realize The Onion was an acceptable source for the LBN forum."

[regnaD kciN]

20. In other news, Ted Bundy has won a posthumous award...

...for his landmark efforts in population control.

[No Elephants]

34. I thought you were going to say the Gourmand Award.

[regnaD kciN]

40. No -- that went to Jeffery Dahmer

[undeterred]

21. I guess there must not have been many to choose from.

[rpannier]

22. Probably like that Discovery Greatest American Ever quiz

bLIAR probably beat out
Limbaugh, Arnold, sarah palin and michael savage

[Mudoria]

23. Ranks up there with the Nobel for Obama

Undeserved in both cases.

[Odin2005]

24. Calling George Orwell!

[conspirator]

39. War is Peace. Amen n/t

[Fool Count]

25. The biggest injustice is that he did not share it with Saddam Hussein

(posthumously).

[ProudDad]

27. First Kissinger, then Obama and now this

Satire is truly, truly dead...

[go west young man]

30. Rumor has it that Hitler will posthumously received the Ghandi award for kindness.

And Glenn Beck will be delivering it accompanied by Santa Claus and Jeffrey Dahmer. Mother Theresa is expected to sing "Whoop there it is" during the ceremony.

[go west young man]

31. In all seriousness this award was essentially given to Blair by the

Annenberg Foundation who built and run The National Constitution Center. They also came up with factcheck.org whic is incredibly sad and ironic. Considering the amount of philanthropy work they do in the world one would have to ask "what the fuck were they thinking" giving this award to Blair who lied us into a war that cost a half a million or more lives? The Annenberg Foundation should be ashamed.

[No Elephants]

35. And Obama was on the board of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge. Where's Kevin Bacon in all this?

http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/he_lied_about_bill_ayers.html

[No Elephants]

36. Sad news; funny thread.

[Demonaut]

38. eradicating peace?

if anything he' still in debt to humanity for the Iraq war...just not as much as before

[LeftishBrit]

41. How very Orwellian.

Freedom is Slavery. War is Peace.

But a Nutter is still a Nutter!

[Romulox]

42. Just like Obama got a "peace prize" and then commenced to SURGE! into Afghanistan.

The Onion is irrelevant because the real headlines are a farce.