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Name This Person
I ordered the killing of many thousands of civilians, directed the use
of weapons of mass destruction and later was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Who am I? (Hint: not Muslim.) |
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"Stuf4" wrote in message om... I ordered the killing of many thousands of civilians, directed the use of weapons of mass destruction and later was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Who am I? Was going to say Winston Churchill but in addition to being the Butcher of Tonypandy, using chemical weapons against the Kurds and wrecking the British economy in the 1920s it was a literature prize, not a peace prize that he won... He probably won that prize like the 1951 election - someone else finished with more votes but some failure in the system gave it to him. (Hint: not Muslim.) |
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"Stuf4" wrote in message
. com... I ordered the killing of many thousands of civilians, directed the use of weapons of mass destruction and later was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Who am I? ....Your mother, obviously. Kids, *please* don't respond to this troll any further. This is his standard tactic - he starts what appears to be a normal thread, then turns it into a bull**** conspiracy theory. Don't fall for it, just put the worthless little ******* in Killfile Hell and be done with him. Please. OM -- "No ******* ever won a war by dying for | http://www.io.com/~o_m his country. He won it by making the other | Sergeant-At-Arms poor dumb ******* die for his country." | Human O-Ring Society - General George S. Patton, Jr |
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I hereby name this person Stuffie.
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From John Hearsey:
"Stuf4" wrote I ordered the killing of many thousands of civilians, directed the use of weapons of mass destruction and later was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Who am I? Was going to say Winston Churchill but in addition to being the Butcher of Tonypandy, using chemical weapons against the Kurds and wrecking the British economy in the 1920s it was a literature prize, not a peace prize that he won... He probably won that prize like the 1951 election - someone else finished with more votes but some failure in the system gave it to him. Churchill was indeed a man of many accomplishments, weapons of mass destruction being one. Artistic painting being another. (Hint: not Muslim.) Another hint: this thread not being labeled as Off Topic was intentional. ~ CT |
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From Rusty Barton:
On 4 May 2004 21:29:22 -0700, (Stuf4) wrote: I ordered the killing of many thousands of civilians, directed the use of weapons of mass destruction and later was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Who am I? (Hint: not Muslim.) Mikhail Gorbachev. If we were to pin down the Nobel laureate who also starred in a Pizza Hut commercial, then Gorby would be it. Story- http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1997/12/03/email/pizza/ Photo- http://www.savannahnow.com/images/120901/full_gorby.jpg ....though I'm not sure how the other two accomplishments apply. Please elaborate if you have specifics. (The person I'm thinking of was dead long before Gorby's rise to power.) ~ CT |
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From Rusty Barton:
On 6 May 2004 06:35:45 -0700, (Stuf4) wrote: I ordered the killing of many thousands of civilians, directed the use of weapons of mass destruction and later was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Who am I? Mikhail Gorbachev. If we were to pin down the Nobel laureate who also starred in a Pizza Hut commercial, then Gorby would be it. Story- http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1997/12/03/email/pizza/ Photo- http://www.savannahnow.com/images/120901/full_gorby.jpg ...though I'm not sure how the other two accomplishments apply. Please elaborate if you have specifics. The Soviet war in Afghanistan killed tens of thousands of civilians. It was still going on during Gorbachev's time in office, although he ended it. (Going by this, it seems to me a stretch to say that he ordered the killing of many thousands of civilians.) Gorbachev had control of the Soviet arsenal which includes WMD. There were reports of limited use of chemical weapons in Afghanistan by the Soviets. (If it were confirmed that WMDs were used, then I'd want to know Gorbachev's level of involvement.) You could also say the same thing about George C. Marshall. I'd say much more about George Marshall. Civilians on the other side in World War II were killed while he was Chief of Staff of the Army. The Germans and Japanese started bombing civilians first, we just gave them some of their own medicine. From 1941 on, he was a member of the committee that supervised the atomic studies by American and British scientists. He passed on orders from President Truman to use the atomic bombs (WMD). Those probably saved lives in the long run by avoiding the invasion of Japan. After the war George C. Marshall won the Nobel Peace Prize. Here's his bio from the Nobel website: http://www.nobel.se/peace/laureates/...shall-bio.html Curiously, there's no mention about his involvement with weapons of mass destruction (from either WWI or WWII). Assuming that the Nobel people are aware of Marshall's background, we might conclude that they don't want to promote the popular notion (popular in the USA at least) that Marshall's nuclear bombs were used to save lives. ~ CT |
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