Most bizarre decision in history of Nobel Peace awards?

October 12, 2012 15:03

Giving the Award to an organization is not unprecedented. Something called the International Peace Bureau won all the way back in 1910, and other past recipients include the International Red Cross, Doctors With Borders, and UNICEF.

However, the 2012 award is likely to go down as one of the questionable choices, like the awards for Yasser Arafat, Henry Kissinger, the International Atomic Energy Agency (after the the US had already gone to war in Iraq), and Barack Obama, who won after less a year in office as President. More

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