You're kidding me

From Power Line:

Mohamed ElBaradei and his International Atomic Energy Agency have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. ElBaradei's fecklessness in dealing with the Iranian nuclear threat surely was a big point in his favor. But I suspect that his opposition to the removal of the terrorist-sponsoring butcher Saddam Hussein put him over the top. That plus the fact that Carter recently won the award and Arafat is dead.

ElBaradei interpreted the award as a message to "keep doing what you're doing." What he's doing is providing the very faint illusion of a response to Iran's development of nuclear weapons.

You can bet Regime Change Iran has some thoughts on this:

The United States, which has severely criticized him in the past, reacted relatively warmly on Friday to the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to Mohamed ElBaradei and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
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Only last December, the White House sought to limit El Baradei to a two-year term, but relented in June for a lack of an alternative candidate. "You work with what you've got," a State Department official said at that time.

I've said before, the Nobel Prizes in Peace and Literature are not serious awards. They're simply part of the bag of goodies the far Left likes to use to rewards its own for opposing more conservative principles.

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Michelle Malkin calls it what it is.

Psycmeistr speaks plainly about this one.