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BUSH AND BLAIR PAIR UP FOR PEACE PRIZE
Sky News ^
| 02/01/2004
| World News
Posted on 02/01/2004 7:35:15 PM PST by Sunshine55
Tony Blair and George Bush have been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for waging war on Saddam Hussein.
They have been put forward by a Norwegian politician who said ousting the dictator had reduced the threat of a war with weapons of mass destruction.
It also laid the foundation for the development of democracy in Iraq, he said.
The five-member Norwegian awards committee will announce the winner on December 10.
The move has been condemned by anti-war campaigners. Andrew Burgin of the Stop the War Coalition said: "This is completely unbelievable. It shows the stupidity of this peace prize that it is given to people for starting wars rather than stopping them."
The nominees are also believed to include Pope John Paul II and the European Union itself.
Nominations closed earlier. Although the list is secret those making the nominations often announce who they have put forward.
Mr Blair and Mr Bush have been nominated several years in a row, this time by Jan Simonsen of the right-wing Party of Progress.
Last year's winner was the Iranian lawyer and human rights activist Shirin Ebadi.
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: blair; bush; nobelpeaceprize; peaceprize
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To: Sunshine55
What Yassir Arafat isnt in the running again this year?...
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posted on
02/01/2004 7:37:45 PM PST
by
joesnuffy
(Moderate Islam Is For Dilettantes)
To: Sunshine55
"This is completely unbelievable. It shows the stupidity of this peace prize that it is given to people for starting wars rather than stopping them." He'd rather see Arafat get it. Again!
To: Sunshine55
Just watch, Saddam and Osama will share the award this year.
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posted on
02/01/2004 7:40:02 PM PST
by
MediaMole
To: TruthShallSetYouFree
"This is completely unbelievable. It shows the stupidity of this peace prize"
He should've quit while he was ahead!
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posted on
02/01/2004 7:41:09 PM PST
by
God luvs America
(Howard Dean is a deranged lunatic!!)
To: Howlin
Check this out!
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posted on
02/01/2004 7:41:44 PM PST
by
Mo1
(Join the dollar a day crowd now!)
To: joesnuffy
>>
Andrew Burgin of the Stop the War Coalition said: "This is completely unbelievable. It shows the stupidity of this peace prize that it is given to people for starting wars rather than stopping them." $20 bucks says this guy wanted to give the Nobel "peace" prize to Yassir "Suicide Bombers" Arafat and George "put more murderers on the streets to kill again" Ryan.
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posted on
02/01/2004 7:43:28 PM PST
by
BillyBoy
(George Ryan deserves a long term...without parole.)
To: Sunshine55
It shows the stupidity of this peace prize that it is given to people for starting wars rather than stopping them." Wonder what this anti-war activist has to say about the hundreds of thousands of people that Saddamn slaughtered..? I guess he's rather we'd left Hussein to carry on exterminating people. That's some peace.
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posted on
02/01/2004 7:45:07 PM PST
by
mewzilla
To: 1Mike; 3catsanadog; ~Vor~; ~Kim4VRWC's~; A CA Guy; A Citizen Reporter; abner; Aeronaut; AFPhys; ...
Well, who else is running that they can give it to?
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posted on
02/01/2004 7:45:09 PM PST
by
Howlin
(If we don't post, will they exist?)
To: Howlin
George Galloway?
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posted on
02/01/2004 7:45:53 PM PST
by
mewzilla
To: mewzilla
Well, hell, Saddam IS still alive, isn't he? Maybe they can give it to him and OBL.
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posted on
02/01/2004 7:47:46 PM PST
by
Howlin
(If we don't post, will they exist?)
To: BillyBoy
Actually I have heard George Ryans name bantered around for this award.
Ever hear of the "license for bribe scandal"?
Prairie
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posted on
02/01/2004 7:54:37 PM PST
by
prairiebreeze
(WMD's in Iraq -- The absence of evidence isn't evidence of absence.)
To: Sunshine55
**Tony Blair and George Bush have been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for waging war on Saddam Hussein.**
Hooray for our guys!
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posted on
02/01/2004 7:55:36 PM PST
by
Salvation
(†With God all things are possible.†)
To: Howlin
Heaven forbid if Kofi Annan gets on that list! *shudder*
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posted on
02/01/2004 8:01:24 PM PST
by
BigSkyFreeper
(All Our Base Are Belong To Dubya)
To: joesnuffy
Arafat, or maybe the stooge Jimmy Carter for being a total dupe about Korea. Yeesh! I hope President Bush and PM Blair DO get it for all that they've done to further peace and democracy.
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posted on
02/01/2004 8:04:26 PM PST
by
alwaysconservative
(Democrats recycle: bad ideas, bad policies, bad people.)
To: Howlin
Wow! Hillary and Bill are going to be seething about this. Hehehehe!
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posted on
02/01/2004 8:17:49 PM PST
by
CyberAnt
("America is the GREATEST NATION on the face of the earth")
To: CyberAnt
Bill Clinton hired a PR guy to lobby for him over in Stockholm, what irony if Bush and Blair win.
To: mewzilla
"They don't hate Bush because they hate the war. They hate the war because they hate Bush."
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posted on
02/01/2004 8:27:26 PM PST
by
onedoug
To: woodyinscc
It's because of that PR thing that I hope Bush and Blair win.
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posted on
02/01/2004 8:50:56 PM PST
by
CyberAnt
("America is the GREATEST NATION on the face of the earth")
To: MediaMole
Naw, I think they pick Carter again, just this time, he may have to share the Nobel peace prize with Castro, or will it be N. Korea pres. Kim Jong Il?
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