Shoulder to shoulder, Blair and Bush nominated for peace prize

Guardian/UK ^ | 2/05/02 | Stuart Millar

[gitmogrunt]

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My sentiments exactly on that fateful day, no one could have said it better.

[ffrancone]

Peace through strength, demidawg. Peace through strength. In this world, the only peace that actually works.

This prize normally goes to the leftwing politician who does the most to posture about "peace." Different thing.

[Behind Liberal Lines]

Nominated doesn't mean they won it.

But still it's worth it just for the foaming from the looney left.

Think the Hildebeast will go and roll her eyes if Bush wins?

[concerned about politics]

Imagine it.
Bush and Blair .
The dumocraps said Bush wasn't qualified to be president, yet look at the job little Billy did!
Would we "feel Clintons pain?" HILARIOUS!

[concerned about politics]

PS...You all have to admit, it's only the terrorists who side with terrorists. Others would like to see them gone, "big time."
This would be really, really, funny. Clinton couldn't even buy his.

[A Vast RightWing Conspirator]

Bush+Blair(???) getting the 'peace' prize would confirm our complete conversion into a Orwellian society.

Clearly, we didn't make love or PEACE to the terrorists in Afghanistan. In fact, if I'm not mistaken, we gave them... hmmm... 'war'.

But, remember, people, WAR IS PEACE.

Given the above and their numerous other merits, I propose that Bush/Blair are also nominated for Miss Teenage U.S.A., the best/worst dressed men, at the top of Schindler's list and Dogs of the Year.

[Diddle E. Squat]

"Ooompah, loompah, doopity doo..."

[concerned about politics]

I think it's great they've been nominated.
A world without terror would be a good thing.
I pray the best for them, and I hope they win.
What they're doing is right. We were attacked, the enemy is terrorism.
God Bless 'em.

[Tex-Con-Man]

...and Guy Tozzoli, an engineer who helped design the World Trade Centre.

What the....for the Nobel peace prize? Did I wake up in rehab again?

[EternalHope]

Hillarious. Bush and Blair getting the peace prize? Somebody's idea of a sick joke.

Amazing, considering the source. But not hillarious.

Study history a bit. You'll learn an apparently obscure guy named Winston Churchill did much more for peace than Neville Chamberlin.

You may even learn a lesson Europeans, liberals, and "blue dog democrats" (demidogs?) have failed to learn: Appeasement never works.

[RetiredArmy]

Man this will bust Slick's balls if GW wins this. Priceless.

[cake_crumb]

"You don't suppose that tipped the scale in favor of Bush do you?"

I doubt it, since Clinton was lobbying for the Peace Prize in the year 2000...this is 2002.

I hope Clinton is STILL choking on crow over this.

<BIG, EEEVEEL GRIN> Imagine how the Clinton left would react if President Bush DOES get the prize! </BIG, EEEVEEL GRIN>

[Young Rhino]

If memory serves correct, wasn't Nobel's fortune made from dynamite and other explosives? If so, giving the peace prize to the only to western leaders with the cojones to create peace through military strength seems very appropriate.

[doug from upland]

I'm pretty sure that the two nominated leaders are largely responsible for freeing a nation from tyranny. Some of realize that the destruction of those doing evil is the best path to peace in this world.

[A Vast RightWing Conspirator]

Right. And 'peace through strength' is both smart and beautiful. Therefore the Miss Teen U.S.A. nomination. For both of them.

[cake_crumb]

Nice post, especially the part about the unloved, four-legged Clinton photo opportunities.

[Askel5]

Black is white, up is down, peace is forceful.

I'm loving the scorecard bit. A nice personal "man to man" spin on the misting of Muslims by the thousands.

[cake_crumb]

I don't understand the reference to Orwellian "war is peace" stuff in relation to Afghanistan.

Would all of you who keep making this statement have preferred that President Bush lobbed a few cruise missiles into an empty aspirin factory and called it a day? Perhaps he should have gone the "appeasement for peace" route?

None of you who are saying this can truly understand the nature of the foe we are trying to deal with, if you really believe that swift reprisal for the atrocities of September 11 disqualifies President Bush from winning a Nobel Prize for Peace.

Clinton's attempt at the Peace Prize: appeasement of Palestinians in the Mideast lead to a highly successful reign of terror, by individuals calling themselves "freedom fighters", for the past year and a half, with no end whatsoever in sight. Sure, appeasement worked MUCH better.

[Salman]

There are signs that Mr Blair and Mr Bush are up against tough competition to secure the $940,000 (£670,000) prize money and see their names added to an elite list which includes Martin Luther King, Mother Teresa and Nelson Mandela

...and, let's not forget, Yassir Arafat.

Did this guy have a problem when peaceful old Yassir got the prize? I don't know, but I doubt it.

[cake_crumb]

"A nice personal "man to man" spin on the misting of Muslims by the thousands"

That should be "misting Muslim TERRORISTS WHO WANT TO KILL ALL NON MUSLIMS, IN ORDER TO TAKE OVER THE ENTIRE WORLD by the tousands. I don't have a problem with that. Months ago, Usama called for the death of any moderate Muslim who aided the evil west in it's war on terror. I hope we "mist" many more terrorists.