Obama got the Peace Prize for not being George W Bush (or, more to the point, not being under the thumb of the likes of Cheney and Rumsfeld). Towards the end, C

Obama got the Peace Prize for not being George W Bush (or, more to the point, not being under the thumb of the likes of Cheney and Rumsfeld). Towards the end, Cheney was pushing Bush to _invade Iran_. Now "you are sane, and not under the control of anyone insane" is, granted, a fairly weak justification for a Nobel prize, but given the anxiety at the time...