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Carter Wins Nobel Peace Prize, Bush Rebuked Fri Oct 11, 1:32 PM ET By Alister Doyle OSLO (Reuters) - Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday by a committee whose head called the decision a deliberate slap in the face for the current U.S. government over its policy on Iraq. Carter, a Democrat who was president from 1977 to 1981, was awarded the $1 million prize from a record field of 156 candidates for decades of work to resolve conflicts from the Middle East to North Korea, and from Haiti to Eritrea. The secretive five-member prize committee praised Carter, 78, for 'decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development.' The prize, named after Swedish philanthropist Alfred Nobel, was widely hailed abroad as honoring an elder statesman who has been praised more since leaving office than when president. 'It's great. He deserves it,' said U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, who shared the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize with the United Nations. The committee praised Carter for an 'outstanding commitment' to human rights and for everything from his battle against tropical diseases to his help for developing nations. The prize will be handed over on December 10 in Oslo. Carter came close to winning the award in 1978 when Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat shared the prize for the peace accord that he brokered. The committee that year wanted to give Carter the prize but he had not been formally nominated by the February deadline. SLAP IN THE FACE FOR WASHINGTON The chairman of the committee, Gunnar Berge, used the prize to make a scathing attack on President Bush's campaign to topple Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. U.S. lawmakers gave Bush solid bipartisan support on Thursday for a strike on Iraq. Carter said last month it would be a 'tragic mistake'
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