h Posted October 4, 2002 Report Share Posted October 4, 2002 Bush, Blair nominated for 2002 Nobel Peace Prize DOUG MELLGREN Associated Press OSLO, Norway ---- President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair have been nominated for the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize for fighting terrorism and securing world peace, a Norwegian lawmaker announced Monday. Harald Tom Nesvik, a member of parliament from the right-wing Party of Progress, said he has nominated the two leaders who have been at the forefront of the war in Afghanistan. "The background for my nomination is their decisive action against terrorism, something I believe in the future will be the greatest threat to peace," Nesvik said. "Unfortunately, sometimes ... you have to use force to secure peace." Nesvik has nomination rights as a member of a national legislature. The Oslo-based awards committee accepts nominations postmarked by Feb. 1, so proposals continue to arrive and a final number is not expected until late in the month. Last year, 136 individuals and groups were nominated. The $943,000 prize was shared by the United Nations and its secretary-general, Kofi Annan. The committee keeps the names of nominees secret for 50 years. However, those making nominations often reveal their choice. The Sept. 11 terror attacks on the United States and the aftermath were expected to influence this year's nominations, because those events were too late to be considered in last year's award. Other Sept. 11-related nominations mentioned, but not confirmed, include former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and Guy Tozzoli, an engineer who helped design the World Trade Center. Also Monday, two Christian Democratic members of Norway's parliament announced their nomination of the Salvation Army, adding to a list that includes Rome-based Catholic group Church of Sant'Egidio for peace and humanitarian efforts and the Mission of Mercy humanitarian group for work in Latin America. The Nobel Prize winners are named in mid-October and the awards are always presented on Dec. 10, the day their founder, Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, died in 1896. The peace prize is awarded in Oslo, and the others in Stockholm, Sweden. http://www.nctimes.net/news/2002/20020205/55625.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Low Roller Posted October 4, 2002 Report Share Posted October 4, 2002 FUCK THAT SHIT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ms.Huxtable Posted October 4, 2002 Report Share Posted October 4, 2002 Please, please, please tell me that's an onion article. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weezy Posted October 4, 2002 Report Share Posted October 4, 2002 the irony is painful... The Nobel Peace Prize used to actually mean something, now they're making a mockery of it. If they award it to the war-mongers, then the Nobel 'Peace' Prize will have no more integrity than a Cracker-Jack prize. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gentlemonkey Posted October 4, 2002 Report Share Posted October 4, 2002 nice suckup tech. it'll probably land him a cushy diplomat job for the US or UK, or when they take over the world, he will be a high officer in the UNited Kingdom of States.. .. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davey Boy 2.0 Posted October 4, 2002 Report Share Posted October 4, 2002 Well in a way it's understandable, what with americans catching the anti-terrorism fever. Hell you gotta figure that Dubbya's double-talk and lowest-common-denominator propaganda has to be hitting home for a lot of right wing mental cases- many of whom are in the position to be able to nominate people for the Nobel Peace Prize..... any bets on did the nominating? I'll get the ball rolling: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcO Posted October 4, 2002 Report Share Posted October 4, 2002 If George W. Bush wins an award for peace, will one of you please come over to my place and kill me? Just fucking kill me. Steve? Trevor?? Anybody??? Thanks in advance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weezy Posted October 5, 2002 Report Share Posted October 5, 2002 Iraq's Latest Offer: Bush, Saddam Duel Friday, October 4, 2002 By SAMEER N. YACOUB THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BAGHDAD, Iraq -- An Iraqi official offered an unusual suggestion Thursday for solving the U.S.-Iraq standoff: Saddam Hussein and President Bush should fight a duel to settle their differences and avoid a war. U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan would be the referee, Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan said. It should be "a president against a president, a vice president against a vice president, and a minister against a minister in a duel." Iraq has two vice presidents. Ramadan did not say whether he or Taha Muhie-eldin Marouf might take on Dick Cheney. source here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaimoe Posted October 5, 2002 Report Share Posted October 5, 2002 Osama gets my vote. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thumpin Posted October 9, 2002 Report Share Posted October 9, 2002 an absurd world. Makes Twin Peaks look normal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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