Bush and Blair Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize (sad but true)

[CookieD]

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/040130/325/eksp5.html

This is not that significant. Many people get nominated. It's just sad, that's all.

Friday January 30, 01:03 PM

Bush and Blair nominated for Nobel peace prize
By Alister Doyle

OSLO (Reuters) - President George W. Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair are among nominees for the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize before a Sunday deadline for nominations despite failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

"Nominations are pouring in," said Geir Lundestad, director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute. He said he gets letters and up to 1,500 e-mails a day from people either supporting or denouncing candidates.

Among nominees are the European Union to mark its expansion to include former East bloc states. Pope John Paul, the Salvation Army, former Czech President Vaclav Havel, Chinese dissidents are also among nominees.

"Bush and Blair definitely still deserve it," said Jan Simonsen, a right-wing independent member of Norway's parliament who nominated the two for the 2004 prize shortly after the U.S.-led war toppled Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in April.

"Even though they haven't found those weapons they got rid of a dictator and made the world more safe," he told Reuters on Friday, sticking by the choice. "They got rid of a madman."
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[The_Casual_Observer]

1. Who nominated them?

Does it cost money to nominate someone?

[bambo53]

4. The real question is

how many people do you have to blow up to win this farce of an award?
Yasser Arafat comes to mind...

[The_Casual_Observer]

14. The article is a farce

I suppose that my wife could nominate me and I could call the local papers and announce that I am a Nobel nominee.

[calimary]

24. Howdy Doody perhaps? Limbaugh in one of his drug-hazes?

[ET Awful]

2. Yup lots of people get nominated . . .

some pretty nasty folks. Like the little german dude with the moustache.

[AtTheEndOfTheDay]

3. War is Peace

1984

[Kat45]

21. You beat me to it! That would have been my response.

:-)

[TacticalPeek]

5. At first I thought this must be The Onion.

Then I remembered Kissinger.


(Perhaps, if aWol gets it, Jimmy will give his back.)

[noonwitch]

12. I can understand Kissenger being nominated better than Bush

Not that I would support either one being nominated. Kissenger may have been part of atrocities in southeast Asia, but he did spend a lot of time and energy trying to negotiate peace in Israel. He laid the groundwork for what Carter completed in the Camp David Accords.

[Stanchetalarooni]

6. Perhaps the Nobel ain't shit!

Perhaps it has been co-opted along with any other "Institution" that chooses to endure rather than evolve.
Sounds vaguely like the Homeland, eh folks?

[wellst0nev0ter]

7. Nominated For What? Best Fiction? (eom)

[Goldom]

8. so where

is this email to denounce nominees?

[IADEMO2004]

9. One Norwegian Loon does not a Nobel Peace Prize make

It will never happen

[TacticalPeek]

10. LOL!

:toast:

[calimary]

25. I recall that bush actually was nominated by some such loon last year.

True. Didn't go very far. In fact, when they gave out the award, they used the wording of the announcement to take a whack at bush.

[liberalnurse]

11. If they get it then I know I've slipped into a

parallel universe and I can't find my way home....:scared:

[Whoa_Nelly]

13. Dupe...hoewever, you CAN write to the Nobel committee and protest

Original post:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=338435

Do write and protest even the consideration of those criminals, Bush and/or Blair.

State why Bush or Blair should NOT be even considered for the prize...there are so many reasons: Thouands dead, global destabilzation both politically and economically, the push to create more nuclear arms in the US, the lies told to the world to justify invading a sovereign nation...and am sure there are many more.

And when you do write, maybe consider and name who you think should receive the prize.

Here's all the contact information for the committee:



The Nobel Committee 2004

The Nobel Committee consists of five members and the secretary of the Nobel Assembly. The members are elected for a period of three years. Each year, ten associate members are elected for a term running from March until October. The Nobel Committee is the working body of the Nobel Assembly.

Members, 2004: Göran Hansson (Chairman),
Björn Vennström (Deputy Chairman), Bertil Fredholm, Erna Möller, Lars Terenius,
Secretary: Hans Jörnvall

Office
Agneta Sjövall
Ann-Margreth Jörnvall

Mail address: Nobel Forum, Box 270, SE-171 77 Stockholm, Sweden
Visiting address: Nobels väg 1, Karolinska Institutet
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
Email: [e-mail]

Copyright© 2004 The Nobel Foundation

http://www.mednobel.ki.se/mednobel/committee.html

[Zero Gravitas]

15. Those Wacky Norwegians

who says Scandinavians don't have a sense of humor?

[KoKo]

16. Those PNAC'ers have been hard at work lobbying, I guess.

:-( It's really disgusting, actually.

[stevedeshazer]

17. Col. Sanders nominated for Chicken Advocate Of The Year!

Jeez.

[Ivote]

18. I f anybody can be nominated for

the Peace Prize why cant we name
Gen. Clark for what he did in Kosovo

[mistertrickster]

19. Bush nominated Blair and then Blair nominated Bush . . . not that

hard to understand hehehe

[Demeter]

20. Absolutely! They Get the Booby Prize!

Can't think of two bigger or more deserving boobies alive right now!

[loudnclear]

22. If this happens, other recipients should turn in their medals.

They should keep the money but turn in the medals.

[sungkathak]

23. Peace award for "war criminal"?

Bush and Blair continueusly being accused of War criminal.

Quote, "Blair faces new 'war crimes' accusation
By Severin Carrell
18 January 2004

An eminent panel of legal experts is to accuse Tony Blair of committing war crimes in Iraq in a formal complaint to the International Criminal Court in The Hague.
The panel, which includes law professors from universities in Britain, Ireland, France and Canada, will claim on Tuesday there is compelling evidence that the Prime Minister broke international law and UN treaties by invading Iraq last year.

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=482331

[MikeG]

26. I nominate Ken Lay for the economics prize.

[lazarus]

27. dupe

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=338435