Bush was given consistent and accurate information from all of the primary sources; the CIA, NSA, MI6, British Army, US military ……all the same message, and it’s all very well documented by the mainstream media. Oh, and there was also the UN. Bush ignored everything.
Wouldn’t it be interesting if they got a Nobel for acting against the will of the UN …
Cite please.
Istara:
I agree. Let’s also see what happens in Israel/Palestine before giving any awards.
sqweels:
You won’t get me to deny that. 
Jeff
We have ways to make people like you deny cynicism!
Bring in the comfy chair! {…evil chuckle…}
Tom Lehrer said that political satire became superfluous when Henry Kissinger won the Nobel Peace Prize.
These nominations remind me of the novel “1984” and the slogan “War is Peace”.
Today Bofors Defence exclusively manufactures armaments (and are owned by american United Defense). Back in Alfred Nobels days it was a mixed affair.
There are a lot of nominations for Nobel’s Peace Price - about 150 or so this year. I doubt the Bush&Blair nomination will make it past the first triage.
My guess is that this nomination is mainly aimed at Norwegian voters. Nesvik is a member of Parliament from the Progress Party, which is the only party in Norway which has been in favour of the war all the way through. Most Norwegians have opposed the war so far, but I guess the Progress Party hopes people are changing their minds now that the war is over. The nomination is a way to remind voters of their pro-war stance.
hildea: Aha, he’s from the progress party!
It should be noted then that “the progress party” is by many regarded as a populist (and rightist) party. They originally rose to fame by preaching a more tough stance on immigration, and as far as I know this is still central to their agenda.
The “Le Pens” of Norway in a way.
The story that Skopo linked to is from last year, but lo and behold, another member of the Norwegian parliament nominated Bush and Blair again this year. In this case it’s Jan Simonsen, who used to be part of the so-called “Progress” Party, until he got kicked out in one of their charming public squabbles. He’s, ahhh, an original.
This isn’t the first odd nomination the Nobel Peace Prize Committee has received, and it won’t be the last. It isn’t even in the running for the oddest, really - Hitler was nominated repeatedly, and in fact during the Second World War the NPPC decided not to award the prize several times to keep the occupying Nazis from forcing their hand.
Is there a way for somebody’s Peace Prize to be rescinded if they wind up deliberately wrecking the achievement for which they were granted the prize in the first place? I’m thinking of David Trimble here.
agh, you mean it’s 2003 already? :smack:
Damn, i didn’t even consider that the story i came across was from last year–like i said, i saw this Norwegian legislator on CNN, did a search on BBC, found a story about a Norwegian legislator nominating B & B for the Nobel peace prize, and assumed it was the same story.
I saw it was from February, but didn’t look at the year. Thanks for catching that, flodnak.
Actually, the president Chirac has been nominated too, from what I heard, probably by people thinking exactly the opposite than their colleagues who nominated Bush and Blair.
Amongst the people I heard about as nominees, my personnal favorite would be Vaclav Havel who is one of the very rare international personnality I’ve a great respect for. But there might be (there probably are, actually) less well known and much more deserving candidates I never heard about.
Usually, I’m not impressed at all by the recipients of the Nobel prize for peace. Giving it to such people as Kissinger, as previously pointed out, for instance…:rolleyes: Actually, I think that extremely few politicians would qualify, according to my standards, because, even if they manage to acheive something important at some point, their whole history often include some unsavory decisions and actions (see Arafat example above, once again).