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    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.'

    However, Geir Lundestad, the director of the Nobel Institute where the five-member committee meets, said Simonsen's proposal would have to wait for the 2004 award because the deadline for nominations for 2003 passed on February 1.

    The secretive five-member committee names the annual winner in mid-October. More than 160 people and organizations have been nominated for the 2003 prize, including Pope John Paul, Irish rock star Bono and Cuban dissident Oswaldo Paya.

    'I'm not especially optimistic that Bush and Blair will win but I think it's worth a try,' Simonsen said. He said he would encourage like-minded parliamentarians in other countries to also nominate Bush and Blair.

    Nobel committees have frequently honored the United Nations instead of unilateral action by member states. The United Nations did not give an explicit mandate for the war amid opposition from countries including France, Germany and Russia.

    The 2001 Nobel Peace Prize went to the United Nations and U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan.

    Thousands of people around the world, including members of national parliaments, professors of history, law and politics and former laureates can make nominations for the prize. The nomination process is secret, but people sometimes publicize their choice.
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  • #2
    ROTFLMFAO no no please stop it

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    • #3
      Tom Lehrer is gonna have to retire all over again.
      Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...

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      • #4
        I don't think there's any danger in them winning it though.
        Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...

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        • #5

          maybe they forgot to read Bush's published report in 2000 about how the US has to engage in a new "pro-active" military campaign.

          If he wins I just might sh1t myself...
          To us, it is the BEAST.

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          • #6
            Bet it was the sae Norgewian parlamentarian who nominated Bush for last years bit.

            Unlikely Bush and blair would win.
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            • #7
              I supported these wars and continue supporting ousting dictators. But.. this has got to be a joke
              In da butt.
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              • #8
                they could also get the one for biology for creating wmd out of thin air or the one for literature for those creative UN reports. all cards are open really

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                • #9
                  Let them win. After all they secured the peace and proved the anti-war crowd wrong.
                  For there is [another] kind of violence, slower but just as deadly, destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night. This is the violence of institutions -- indifference, inaction, and decay. This is the violence that afflicts the poor, that poisons relations between men because their skin has different colors. - Bobby Kennedy (Mindless Menance of Violence)

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                  • #10
                    Fez, they proved anti-war crowd wrong how?
                    In da butt.
                    "Do not worry if others do not understand you. Instead worry if you do not understand others." - Confucius
                    THE UNDEFEATED SUPERCITIZEN w:4 t:2 l:1 (DON'T ASK!)
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                    • #11
                      Haven't you been paying attention Pekka? I mean, every single reason to be against the war has been proven wrong!

                      To us, it is the BEAST.

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by Pekka
                        Fez, they proved anti-war crowd wrong how?
                        Don't provoke him! (probalby too late anyhow)
                        If you don't like reality, change it! me
                        "Oh no! I am bested!" Drake
                        "it is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong" Voltaire
                        "Patriotism is a pernecious, psychopathic form of idiocy" George Bernard Shaw

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                        • #13
                          If they won, I could see lots of other NPP winners returning their medals (not the million dollars though, since they'll most likely have spent it).

                          Oh, and Fezzie, we weren't proven wrong. As yet, no evidence of WMDs have turned up nor evidence of substantive contacts between the Ba'athist and al-Qaeda. So far, we appear to be correct.
                          Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by Sava
                            Haven't you been paying attention Pekka? I mean, every single reason to be against the war has been proven wrong!
                            Sig material

                            I am just baiting you guys.. you know that.
                            For there is [another] kind of violence, slower but just as deadly, destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night. This is the violence of institutions -- indifference, inaction, and decay. This is the violence that afflicts the poor, that poisons relations between men because their skin has different colors. - Bobby Kennedy (Mindless Menance of Violence)

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by chegitz guevara
                              Oh, and Fezzie, we weren't proven wrong. As yet, no evidence of WMDs have turned up nor evidence of substantive contacts between the Ba'athist and al-Qaeda. So far, we appear to be correct.
                              You correct? Ultimately highly unlikely.
                              For there is [another] kind of violence, slower but just as deadly, destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night. This is the violence of institutions -- indifference, inaction, and decay. This is the violence that afflicts the poor, that poisons relations between men because their skin has different colors. - Bobby Kennedy (Mindless Menance of Violence)

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