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Writing today for AdelaideNow, Downer said the decision to award the prize to Obama "was a political decision of gross stupidity".

 

Obama "has not had anything like enough time for his policies to bear fruit," he further wrote.

 

According to Downer, if Obama had refused the prize "he would have helped preserve the integrity of the Nobel Peace Prize and also demonstrate a disarming degree of modesty."

 

Downer lists a number of "real heroes", such as Zimbabwe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, who has fought the rule of Robert Mugabe, who he says would be more deserving of the award.

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espite the prize being "a hideous display of cynical politics", Downer writes that "the blame does not all lie at President Obama's feet".

 

According to news.com.au, Downer blames the Nobel Prize Committee made up of Norwegian politicians.

 

He singles out Norway's former prime minister and foreign minister Thorbjorn Jagland, who Downer says was "a real party-political player" and "a fool".

 

Downer recounts the run-in he had with Jagland over stopping the Norwegian ship the Tampa from landing on the Australian mainland with rescued asylum-seekers.

 

Jagland has made "the worst decision in Nobel Peace Prize history" and "done done real damage to the institution," Downer writes. (ANI)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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