The winner of the nobel peace prize for the year 2009 is ...

Yes. We all know now. Barrack Obaamaa.
The joke of the year - Nobel Peace Prize 2009.

Nobel Peace Prize for a man heading a country which is fighting wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Iran! It makes the award itself insignificant and mocks the institution.
There are some questions. What is the criteria for the award? Is it possible that certain Noble Prizes are awarded for political reasons? What is the point of awarding the prize to Obama? What are his achievements?

Obama may have been a good choice for being nominated for the TIMES Man-of-the-Year Award in December 2009. But Nobel Peace Prize! There must be something to this error in judgement, or else how could it happen so many times over in the awarding of a prize relating to work for PEACE.

Al Gore - was it as a compensation to having lost the Presidential election? Otherwise what has Climate Change got to do with peace. Al Gore should have been given the BBC World Challenge Award 2007 not the Nobel Peace Prize.

Nelson Mandela - for having spent 27 years in prison? How was he instrumental in ending apartheid in SA, sitting in a prison? Yes he was peaceful all the 27 years. It was not the personal initiatives of Mr. Mandela and Mr. de Klerk that ended apartheid in SA. It were the circumstances that compelled them to. It was not an individual here who was responsible for founding democracy in SA. The democratic movement had that strength.

I am sure, there are many more examples.
And I am sure there is a better explanation to this announcement in the category of Peace.