Bush/Blair Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

[Nie Trink Wasser]

http://asia.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=politicsNews&storyID=2706011


Bush, Blair Nominated for Nobel Prize for Iraq War
Thu May 8, 2003 10:28 AM ET
By Alister Doyle
OSLO (Reuters) - A Norwegian parliamentarian nominated President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair for the Nobel Peace Prize on Thursday, praising them for winning the war in Iraq.

'Sometimes it's necessary to use a small and effective war to prevent a much more dangerous war in the future,' Jan Simonsen, a right-wing independent in Norway's parliament, told Reuters.

'If nobody acted then Saddam Hussein could have produced weapons of mass destruction and, in five or 10 years, could have used them against Israel,' he said.

An award to Bush and Blair would be a U-turn after the Nobel Committee awarded the 2002 prize to former U.S. President Jimmy Carter last October. At the time, the committee chairman called it a kick in the shins to Bush's Iraq policies as Carter had been calling for a diplomatic solution.

Simonsen said the war had 'made it possible to create democracy and respect for human rights in a country which for so many years has been ruled by one of the worst dictators in modern times.'

The Nobel Grammy.

[Gem]

Looks to me like the Nobel peace prize is being used as a political tool.

[Nie Trink Wasser]

Originally posted by Gem
Looks to me like the Nobel peace prize is being used as a political tool.


unless of course, it's a leftist

[Cain]

Hey, Kissinger won a Nobel Prize on fraudulent grounds, so we shouldn't find it surprising. Still, I highly doubt one will be awarded to Bush and company (you know, those 40 other allies in the "coalition of the willing" that gave us their, um, support).

[Ove]

Well if they could give it to Arafat/Begin/Sadat then why not Curious George and Tony, his puppy.;)

Next step is probably that they will give it to Osama because he has NOT comitted any terror acts for 5 months in a row. ;)

[reprise]

this is an award for which Adolph Hitler was also once nominated.

BTW, Bono is one of the 2003 nominees - the world just keeps getting weirder.

[karl]

Originally posted by reprise
this is an award for which Adolph Hitler was also once nominated.

BTW, Bono is one of the 2003 nominees - the world just keeps getting weirder.

Odd nominees aren't exactly relevant to the validity of the Peace Prize, since all members of national assemblies and state governments, and all university professors of social sciences, law, history, philosophy and theology (!) have the right to nominate whomever they feel like. In theory, Tariq Aziz could have nominated Saddam Hussein prior to the fall of the Iraqi government. But it is unlikely that the Norwegian Nobel Committee, who is used to wading through a lot of garbage nominations each year, would have picked him as the most deserving candidate.

http://www.nobel.se/peace/nomination/nominators.html

[Lothian]

It seems strange to me that the nominator proposes the pair because

Originally posted
If nobody acted then Saddam Hussein could have produced weapons of mass destruction and, in five or 10 years, could have used them against Israel,' he said.


when the two of them only went to war because they claimed that Saddam HAD weapons of mass destruction not that he could have them in 5 - 10 years.

[ithinksoiam]

I think these Nobel awards have long outlived any usefulness. Yeah, give a peace award to warmongers! Yeah, thats the way to go boys!

[subgenius]

Alfred Nobel created the awards, in part, to assuage his guilt over the fact that his invention (dynamite) would be used so extensively in warfare.