... i have heard in a long long time.

bush has been nominated for a Nobel peace prize!

wonder how much that cost?

... it doesn't take much to get nominated. This from the Hindustani Times:

Bush and Blair are thus known to be on the list, having been proposed by Jan Simonsen, a member of the Norwegian parliament.

Formerly of the far-right Progressive Party but now an independent, Simonsen said that the duo ought to be honoured "for having dared to take the necessary decision to launch a war on Iraq without having the support of the UN."

I agree, the irony is incredible. A peace prize for being warmongers. A quick google search pulled up lots of sites already organizing protests of the nomination (the Hindustani Times was the topmost news site that came up, interestingly).


bush has been nominated for a Nobel peace prize!

wonder how much that cost?

... i have heard in a long long time.

bush has been nominated for a Nobel peace prize!

wonder how much that cost?
why is that ironic......... :confused: didn't yasser arafat(sp?) actually get one???? :rolleyes:

George and Blair getting a nod for the award shows how "1984" we have become.. I'm waiting for "War is Peace" to become the national motto. When FDR and Churchill stopped the Nazis, they didn't get the prize, because war does not "promote fraternity among and within the nations." The Nobel Peace price has never gone to anyone for waging war no matter how just. Again FDR and Churchill didn't get it but Hull did. Hull masterminded getting food and infastructure back to war torn Europe.

To quote an article in the Cornell Daily Sun "There has never been a war fought for a purpose other than peace because every war is fought to win. Wars are fought to promote one nation's well being, often at the expense of another and the peace that results is -- more often than not -- unworthy of the kind of canonization the Peace Prize represents. Peace is every nation's profession, but it is the United Nation's reason for existence. To praise Bush and Blair for disregarding the U.N.'s advice and rulings in favor of their own plans is to mangle the significance of the Peace Prize until it becomes meaningless."

It's somewhat less ironic however when you consider that the award itself is in honor of a man who made his money by inventing dynamite & the blasting cap. While being useful in industrialization it was even more useful in blowing up people.

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