"The Coalition is a network of churches, businesses and individuals cooperating together to solve humanitarian issues through the PEACE Plan, an effort to mobilize 1 billion Christians to Promote reconciliation, Equip servant leaders, Assist the poor, Care for the sick and Educate the next generation."

As well as give spiritual cover to a mass-murderer. This award is another ridiculous attemptat salvaging some bit of legacy for The Worst President in US History. How many children died of Aids, because Bush's policy of NOT helping countries that allow contraception? Is it best not to talk of those poor unfortunates?

Rick Warren should just keep to making sure gays can't marry. He's horribly out of his depth, and this specious award proves it.

Did pastor warren jump the shark or is this a big colossal joke.

George Bush is a butcher, ordering the deaths of up to a million Iraqi and Afghan citizens. He has done NOTHING on AIDS other than give lip service to funneling money requested by prior administrations. His "faith based" policies of abstinence over condoms has resulted in thousands of new cases of HIV.

Attempting to portray this hideous man as anything but the despicable sociopath he is shows what you and your delusional belief system are made of- nothing, nothing at all.

You condemn people to death with your cheer leading of intolerance and mythology. Karma will find you. And you'll deserve every painful moment.

This is a joke, right?

A "Peace" prize to someone responsible for the murders of hundreds of thousands of innocent people, for destroying the physical, emotional, and familial lives of military personnel who were trapped into fighting an illegal, immoral war, who promotes torture, and whose policies have plunged the international communities into economic disaster thereby raising the levels of poverty throughout the world is nothing less than insane, if not evil. Warren needs to widen his warped perceptions about what it means to be a responsible leader and a spokesperson for Christians. His and Bush's hypocrisies and false piety surely have influenced more people to turn away from Christianity than to be drawn to the examples and teachings of the true Prince of Prince.

Either this is a bad joke, or evangelicals are a joke. Get real!

We have been blessed by a President who has been much maligned by the press, but has continued to do incredible things and save lives in the untold background. May God continue to pour his blessings upon the Warrens and President George and Laura Bush for their commitment to dire needs here at home and abroad.

Uh, god, what are they thinking? To echo another comment I read, "Giving George W the metal of Peace is like giving a pornstar a medal for abstinence."

an award?from one self promoting fraud to another!

I've got to say, giving a "peace" award to Mr. Bush reflects a spirit of self-sacrifice. I'm certainly impressed. But you might want to take a second out to make an honest assessment of exactly *what* you're sacrificing in so doing. Do you really want to sacrifice fundamental human decency?

Good God,the idea that any organization could Present Bush with a "Medal of Peace" is an abolute farce. More seriously, it's a slap in the face to the hundreds of thousands who have been lost loved ones due to this war monger's distain for human life.

My husband is a missionary physician who opened up a clinic last year in a remote part of Indonesia. He was not anticipating many HIV/AIDS patients. Unfortunately, he and his staff (he's the only doctor) diagnose up to four patients a day with HIV. For many, death comes within weeks or months, even days, and the ages range from babies to middle age. NGOs and governments here are going all out with education - money is being spent on T-shirts, banners, parades, offices, trucks, salaries -- but people are still being diagnosed with HIV.

The work of treating these victims (yes - many are victims of rape, of being the first or second or third spouse, of being used as a prostitute) does not seem to be interesting/challenging/rewarding enough for people to help financially. Many NGOs (evangelically oriented) when approached for help to build a separate building (currently, 3 staff occupy one room at the clinic) for treating/caring/counseling HIV patients, to assist with medications (not only ARVs but to help with all the other symptoms and illnesses that come with a lowered immune system), and staff salaries, say they only are interested in educating and preventing HIV.

It is baffling - how about treating those who are suffering?

OK - here’s the scoop. Before the 2004 election the ‘Good’ Pastor sent 150,000 Baptist pastors throughout America his personal endorsement of George W. Bush based on stem cell research, euthenasia, abortion, and the typical right wing religious fanatic wedge issues. This fact is well documented. So, the president used the pastor to get himself re-elected, and unfortunately, the rest is history. In return, Bush appropriates millions of dollars in payback for Warren’s personal pet project (Aids). So now Warren gives Bush this humanitarian honor. What a fiasco. This president is the author of an immoral criminal war, the disastrous handling of Katrina, the destruction of the American middle class, and is nothing more than a fascist thug. Giving him this honor is like giving Sadaam Hussein the Nobel prize.

From the definition above- "the five global giants recognized by the Coalition, including pandemic diseases, extreme poverty, illiteracy, self-centered leadership and spiritual emptiness."
Um, George W. deserves a medal for these? Wow.
Just plain, WOW! How bout a medal for making the sun rise, too?

Rick Warren has the presidents mixed up - IT IS PRESIDENT JIMMY CARTER AND MRS ROSLYN CARTER who travel the world to help with disease prevention, treatment and clean water through the CARTER FOUNDATON which is funded by many generous Americans, many who are Christians. YES, doctors are trained as well in the native African countries from the Carter Foundation.
Rick Warren saw only his network of Purpose Driven Churches until his wife Kay had breast cancer. All of the people doing this training were "let go" and the Warren's finally saw the world - but NOT the U.S.
The U.S. mothers who have no prenatal care and little else in life have children who die at birth or in their first year - this happens MORE in the U.S. than in any industrialized democracy. YES, all the other industrialized democracies have government sponsored health care. In these countries the children are less likely to die from preventable diseases as are the senior citizens -the U.S.ranks near the bottom or at the bottom. George W Bush would not even sign the bill for CHILDREN's health care in the U.S. Then YOU would award him for WHAT, Rick Warren, the aid that was set up by George W Bush's predecessor - except that Geo W. Bush took away aid from countries that practiced birth control. President Bill Clinton continues his work of caring for AIDS in the world through the Clinton Foundation.
YOU, RICK WARREN, are one of the people who will pull young people and old people away from churches - because churches will be blamed for your GREED for the LIMELIGHT in giving George W Bush any kind of award more than MASS MURDER, LIER, INCOMPETENT, TAKING AWAY AMERICA'S GOOD NAME BY TORTURE AND GITMO.
SHAME ON YOU, RICK WARREN.

You HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING!!! Dr. Warren and friends are sadly misinformed or just plain hateful, bigoted so-called christians!! You are awarding an honor to the single person that has brought more misery, death and destruction to this planet than Hitler--YOU ARE OUT OF YOUR MIND!! And you and your ilk certainly deserve a special place in the hell for continuing to create the false illusion that this President by all reasonable people on the planet have found him craven, detached, spiteful, illiterate, crass and hopelessly deluded as you are sir.

In a word: disgusting.

It is insulting to the intelligence of people. We are all aware of the evil of Bush and his zionist supporters.

There is an old saying, "Lie down with dogs, get up with fleas." While I don't know who this Pastor is and never head of the religious group he has founded; I certainly know what he is through his associations.

I left a comment yesterday that was under moderation. I would like to know why it did not post? I don't really expect to hear back from you so called Christians - you are as a big hyposcrites as
Warren and Bush anyways. Oh, and God Bless.

It was posted yesterday...Admin

Where do you start? Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

President Bush does deserve credit for spending more on AIDS than has been done before. Unfortunately, it still pales beyond the need. Unfortunately, some of the effort gets tangled up with ideology rather than simply saving lives.

However, no serious person can say that President Bush has been a man of peace either at home or abroad. He has been one of the most divisive presidents we've ever had. About the only thing that he has brought Americans together around is the idea that he is among our worst presidents ever. Even for PEACE; reconciliation has not been a priority of this administration, he has assisted in the expansion of the number of the poor, health care has worsened and education has not improved. The only leaders he has equipped are those who blindly serve him.

Expressing appreciation is one thing. But, hyperbole is not going to improve this president's place in history. Instead, it only diminishes Rev. Warren.

The slap at the president-elect by Mr. Morgan wasn't helpful either. After all, the numbers of HIV-infected are going up, not down.

hmm... yes. Maybe those bomb raids commanded by G.W. Bush killed a lot of people infected with HIV/AIDS. This is the only way I could believe in such a "tale".

Bush given a Medal of PEACE!!!!

The world has finally gone completely and utterly crazy!! Bush is complicit in the murders of millions, lied over the reason to invade and occupy Iraq and Afghanistan.

the mere fact that the new world order uses this insulting level of propaganda helps me make peace knowing that only seniors and handicapped people buy into this psychological operation to preserve icing on scum.

What a farce. But I suppose that something in the realm of Public Relations has to be done for what will historically be known as the worse presidencey in the history of these United States. It's just too bad that in choosing George W., for this award, they've managed to set the bar so low.

Get an award for alleviating pandemic diseases, extreme poverty, illiteracy, self-centered leadership and spiritual emptiness??? Bush represents and has promoted these very things: pandemic disease--a president that eschews science, cuts funding for research, and supresses research that does not fit his intolerant world view; extreme poverty--deregulation, the largest gap between rich and poor in this country, blaming the poor for their situation, no help during Katrina, no debt relief to foreign countries, keeping women "barefoot and pregnant" through no funding for birth control or family planning, and so on; illiteracy--no child left behind, pulling funding from the schools that need it the most, endorsing lies over science, spreading logical fallacies, funding war, not education, and so on; self-centered leadership--refusing to listen to anyone else, claiming to be above the law, and claiming to have a mandate from God???; spiritual emptiness--a man who makes petty remarks and denigrates others for truly making a difference, who lies to start a war, a man with no humility or true empathy. He is spiritually bankrupt along with all those in denial with him.

Unbelievable, unbelievable? This coming from a Christian and Christian organization? Indeed the world is upside down, good is evil and evil is good. Satan must be laughing in his lair.

And conservatives have the "mean spirited" rap! I have never seen such venom from commentators who would generally support humanitarian efforts such as AIDS relief. One commentator lamblasts the war in Iraq, then compares Bush to evil erradicated in Saddam Hussein. Bush is painted as immoral and dishonest when he based his decisions on the same intelligence that led many Democrats in Congress to support intervention. If he had not pursued the origination of terror, he would have been accused of being soft on terrorism and inviting another attack (which has not happened). It is clearly personal rather than professional. It would be much more productive to argue the issues without consigning places in hell and tagging "worst president" when history has not had time to digest such recent events.

I think Rick Warren is trying to play both sides of the aisle. He needs to be reminded about the purity of the gospel he represents. True, president Bush has done some good in Africa. You should also remember that Bush's efforts are targeted to pave the way for multinationals to gain access to African oil. But to speak of peace and Bush in the same sentence is simply deceit.

This is partially true as Mr George bush have done lot of good things for the Global warming and other issues.
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