Bush, Blair Among Peace Prize Nominees

[Wraywolf]

Bush, Blair Among Peace Prize Nominees
By DOUG MELLGREN, AP



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Blair and Bush were praised for their efforts in removing Saddam Hussein from power.

OSLO, Norway (Feb. 1) - President George Bush, British Prime Minister Tony Blair and the European Union were among known nominees for the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize as the nomination deadline expired Sunday.

The five-member Norwegian awards committee, which keeps the names of candidates secret, accepts nominations postmarked by Feb. 1.

Last year there were a record 165 nominations for the prize, which went to Iranian lawyer and human rights activist Shirin Ebadi.

Even though the committee keeps the nomination list secret for 50 years, those making the nominations often announce their candidate.

Norwegian lawmaker Jan Simonsen of the right-wing Party of Progress has nominated Bush and Blair several years in a row, including this year.

Simonsen wrote that by removing Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, they lessened the chance of a war using weapons of mass destruction in the Middle East and laid the foundation for the development of democracy.

Norwegian experts, including Stein Toennesson, director of the Peace Research Institute-Oslo, last year gave Bush and Blair no chance of winning, mainly because a vast majority of Norwegians, including members of the awards committee, were deeply opposed to the war in Iraq.

Former Labor Party leader Thorbjoern Jagland, also a former Norwegian prime minister, nominated the European Union for ensuring peace and security in Europe.

Others believed to be nominated include Pope John Paul II, the Salvation Army and former Czech President Vaclev Havel.

The committee is appointed by but does not answer to Norway's parliament. It will announce its decision in mid-October.

The Nobel Prizes are always awarded Dec. 10, the anniversary of their creator Alfred Nobel's death. The peace prize is awarded in Oslo, and the other prizes in Stockholm, Sweden.

The prize includes a $1.35 million cash award.


02-01-04 15:49 EST



If you ever needed proof that there is no god, here it is.

[MorganaFang]

Ironic... Peace through war....

[kat]

And yet, where's this peace that they're being awarded for?

[Hellcat]

And yet, where's this peace that they're being awarded for?


Hmmmmmm, and the supposed evidence for the foresaid weapons of mass destruction is still under debate- funny how they never actually turned up isn't it?

[Hellcat]

And yet, where's this peace that they're being awarded for?

Perhaps that's a typing error- maybe they've been nominated for the dumbell Peas Prize?

[kaycee]

Maybe the Iraqi people are more at peace without Saddam ruling their country and hording all their food for himself.

There may be still war going on there now, but I feel in the future, that country will be a peaceful one. Hopefully for the people's sake.

[GhostBat]

Funny how there are plenty of others ruling countries just as badly as Saddam did, but Bush does nothing about them.

Perhaps cause Iraq has all the oil? :eek:

[lachrymal]

....

they can't be serious with this.
bush started a war with another country supposedly for the benefit of that country's people despite the fact the majority obviously opposed to it, and he's getting rewarded for it?

[Carnal]

Isn't it interesting. Mr. Look at me John Howard who spent the whole War on Terror kissing George W's butt and generally misrepresenting Australian interests gets no mention. That must really piss the little lap dog off. Also...

PEACE PRIZE FOR GEORGE BUSH!!!!!! FUCK THAT SYSTEM!! :banghead:

I just don't believe so many people can be so stupid. George Bush is an evil man who only got presidency because of his family and wants to destroy any country that might one day oppose him. I feel sorry for all you Americans. I hate that that retarded midget John Howard calls himself our Australian representative but to be represented by him must be terrible.

[Xzengrim]

Bush basically used 9/11 as a propaganda tool to justify his rectifying his father's grudge against Iraq. He threw the country into a war that was opposed by most of us here, and practically all of the rest of the world. He told us that Iraq was partly responsible for 9/11, that they had weapons of mass destruction and were engaging in genocide, and that any day now Iraq was probably going to attack us with smallpox. Turns out, he lied on all accounts... but he still managed to fsck over the entire middle east and then divide the spoils of war up among his oil buddies. Not to mention that the whole time the country was watching the war on CNN, he was giving his friends the rights to cut down our national forests, shoot wolves in the head, and fsck over the poor just to line his own pockets.

BUSH MAKES ME FSCKING ASHAMED TO BE AMERICAN!! IF HE WINS I SWEAR TO GOD I WILL RENOUNCE MY STATUS AS AN AMERICAN!!!

We should have a draft, here on the boards. The non-USA weres can draft members to be citizens of their own countries instead of America. I'd be happy to be picked up by Britain or Canada.

I'm not kidding.

[Kirin Fenrir]

If that happens, Grim, I think you can count on Darkwolf drafting GoddessWolf. Any other takers?

[Ves]

If memory serves Hitler won the Nobel Peace Prize as well, or was it Man of the Year or something along those lines.

[Darth Cluich]

If memory serves Hitler won the Nobel Peace Prize as well, or was it Man of the Year or something along those lines.

Hitler never got the Nobel Peace Prize, but yes, he was Time's Man of the Year in 1938. Time, though, doesn't name someone for being a great humanitarian but rather for their impact on the news that year.

Other Teddy Bears that have gotten the honor:

Ayatollah Khomeini (1979)
Nikita Krushchev (1957)
Josef Stalin (1939 & 1942)

As for Bush and Blair getting nominated, that's not some sign of the Apocalypse or anything. In 2002, the year Jimmy Carter won it, the Prize Committee received 156 nominations, which can come from former laureates, committee members, members of national governments and legislatures, some university professors, and other selected organizations. All it takes is one looney out of that bunch to throw in a nomination that hasn't a chance in hell of actually winning. In fact, Bush and Blair were nominated last year and didn't win.

[YoungFang]

My personal opinion without all the great distrust and hate I feel for Blair & Bush is that they did not go to war with Iraq for peace. Even though war is the complete opposite of peace some wars have to be fought so that peace in some sense can remain. However the motivation behind this war was clearly not peace so they should even be nominated. If I saw one of them help out Zimbabwe and get rid of Mugabe I might shift by opinion a little .. but you know there are very little resources there so I doubt it.

[Hellcat]

Bush basically used 9/11 as a propaganda tool to justify his rectifying his father's grudge against Iraq. He threw the country into a war that was opposed by most of us here, and practically all of the rest of the world. He told us that Iraq was partly responsible for 9/11, that they had weapons of mass destruction and were engaging in genocide, and that any day now Iraq was probably going to attack us with smallpox. Turns out, he lied on all accounts... but he still managed to fsck over the entire middle east and then divide the spoils of war up among his oil buddies. Not to mention that the whole time the country was watching the war on CNN, he was giving his friends the rights to cut down our national forests, shoot wolves in the head, and fsck over the poor just to line his own pockets.

BUSH MAKES ME FSCKING ASHAMED TO BE AMERICAN!! IF HE WINS I SWEAR TO GOD I WILL RENOUNCE MY STATUS AS AN AMERICAN!!!

We should have a draft, here on the boards. The non-USA weres can draft members to be citizens of their own countries instead of America. I'd be happy to be picked up by Britain or Canada.

I'm not kidding.


I Hellcat, of Britain hereby declare Xzengrim as a drafted citizen of this wet and windy country, who will be offered the the same rights as any other British born Briton (that does not include the rightsgiven to refugees, or any other persons of foreign origin who want to claim money from the DSS that they are not entitled to) from this day forth and not ending until the demise of the foresaid drafted citizen, or until he can no longer stand the British climate, or wants to run back to the United States of America with his tail between is legs. (please remember that Tony (lap-dog) Blair is our current Prime Minister)

[PureMoonlite]

Patting themselves on the back!