Bush, Pope Nominated for Nobel Peace

[smirkymonkey]

By DOUG MELLGREN, Associated Press Writer (1 hour, 6 minutes ago)

OSLO, Norway - "President Bush, Pope John Paul II and the two U.N. officials at the heart of the effort to find weapon of mass destruction in Iraq (news - web sites) are among the nominees for the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize.

Tuesday's nominating deadline brought the number of candidates for the prestigious prize to 194 — 50 organizations and 144 individuals, said Geir Lundestad, secretary of the secretive awards committee. The winner of the $1.3 million award will be announced in mid-October....



This year, those nominated include Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair (news - web sites), French President Jacques Chirac, former Czech President Vaclav Havel, the pope, the European Union (news - web sites), former chief U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix and Mohamed ElBaradei, who still heads the International Atomic Energy Agency.



Sen. Richard Lugar and former Sen. Sam Nunn were nominated for their program to dismantle nuclear weapons left over from the Soviet Union."

I cannot believe this! Why not nominate Mel Gibson already?

What I'd like to know is who is doing the nominating?? How can the self-proclaimed "War President" be nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize??

Excuse me now, I have to go hurl :puke:

[kalian]

1. And you're not kidding....

Un-friggin-believable... :eyes:

[54anickel]

2. Oh for Crissake, someone has their head up their butt, or Shrubs! n/t

[Pale_Rider]

3. From the BBC ...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/1801773.stm

UK Prime Minister Tony Blair and US President George W Bush have been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by a Norwegian politician.
Harald Tom Nesvik, a member of the right-wing Party for Progress, said that he had nominated the two world leaders for fighting terrorism and promoting world peace.

As the article points out, its extremely unlikely that the dynamic duo will win.

[smirkymonkey]

9. Obviously, Norway has a problem

with idiot politicians as well. Isn't there a lot of OIL in Norway?

[Pale_Rider]

11. Yep, alot of oil and gas ...

... and also heavily into telecom and shipping interests as well.

[MagicEye]

29. And wasn't the head of Norway who just declared....

 open season on Whale hunting!  

UUUGGGHH! 

excuse me while I just go chop my head off.

[muriel_volestrangler]

18. not 'will win' ...

but "didn't win". That BBC article is dated 2002.

[FlashHarry]

4. No surprise. He was nominated before. No chance in hell. N/T

[saigon68]

21. CHIMPANZEE McSHRUB = No Chance

After all he's only killed 30,000 or so Iraqis.

[LSparkle]

5. Chirac est mon choix!

[saigon68]

24. Chirac, oui naturellement, il est un chef qui a dit la vérité.

Je vote Chirac

[Uber Llama]

6. How can you make up such an aweful lie?

Have I fallen down the Rabbit Hole? That is the most Carrollian thing I have ever heard! Here comes a Hookah-smoking caterpiller! I can't see straight! should I kill myself now? Why don't they nominate Orwell's Big Brother, Minitrue obviously chooses who is nominated?

[patricia92243]

7. I think I'm going to spit up!

[Liberal Veteran]

8. In other news..Critics hail Gigli as a masterpiece...

...and predict that the movie will go on to win many Oscars.

[Junkdrawer]

10. Yeah, and, Charles Manson was beatified for cannonization...

makes as much sense.

[central scrutinizer]

12. precedent is already set

Henry Kissinger, the ole carpet bomber hisself, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973, prompting Tom Lehrer to declare that satire was dead since it couldn't top that.

[Mikimouse]

15. Maybe Henry was trying to follow Lehrer's song about...

Poisoning Pigeons in the Park? Or perhaps emulating The Old Dope Peddler?

[wjittermoss]

13. Both of these nominations are ridiculous!!

I am not quite sure which one is the more ridiculous!

[shtinkycat]

14. unbelievable!

Did I nap and wake up in 1984?? War is Peace?? Please reassure me that he has NO chance of being awarded.

[smirkymonkey]

25. That's how I feel...like

I am going mad, or is it that the world is completely mad. Honestly, I don't know if I can take much more. My personal sense of reality has become so warped that I feel as though I have lost my bearings.

Hearing about things like this make everything seem meaningless.

[PaDUer]

16. There's NO way

they can put that puke up on the same ladder as the pope! What an insult!

[fujiyama]

17. Remember...

Yasser Arafat and Henry Kissinger won that worthless award.

It's meaningless.

[erpowers]

22. I disagree

The award is not worthless. It is true that some of the people who get the award do not deserve it, but it is good to honor people who try to promote peace. It is extremely sickening that Bush was nominated, but you have to understand who he was nominated by, some right-winger from Norway. Also you must take into account when he was nominated. I think it came about in 2002. So at that time he seem like he might actually be fighting a war on terror. Since then just about everybody knows the truth. I doubt he will ever be nominated again. If it happens again and he wins then I might be willing to say the award is worthless, but for now it still has meaning just think of Jimmy Carter.

[WarNoMore]

32. You took my response

to the tee.

[Darranar]

19. War is Peace. n/t

[mumon]

20. Why not nominate Saddam Hussein?

I kept thinking about the lady who won for best actress at the Oscars: she should have thanked Aileen Wurnos, because without her, she wouldn't have been able to do the movie...

So, if they're going to nominate Bush, they should share the award with Saddam Hussein. Two peas in a pod.

[Manix]

23. A warmonger for a Peace prize? Are they nuts!!

nt

[primavera]

26. No doubt nominated by Karl Rove...

Who does get to nominate candidates for the Nobel Peace Prize? One would have thought that the humiliation of being so soundly rebuffed last year would have made whomever came up with this hair-brained nomination think twice.

[PartyPooper]

27. The Nobel "Piece Prize" goes to Junior.

He's the biggest piece of s*** the world has seen in the past 50 years!

:grr:

[enki23]

28. again?

big deal. it's not like he'll win.

[Davis_X_Machina]

30. Don't get your panties in a twist....

...literally thousands of people can nominate for the Nobel Peace Prize:

From their website:

Right to submit proposals for the Nobel Peace Prize, based on the principle of competence and universality, shall by statute be enjoyed by:

1. Members of national assemblies and governments of states;
   
2. Members of international courts;
   
3. University rectors; professors of social sciences, history, philosophy, law and theology; directors of peace research institutes and foreign policy institutes;
   
4. Persons who have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize;
   
5. Board members of organizations who have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize;
   
6. Active and former members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee; (proposals by members of the Committee to be submitted no later than at the first meeting of the Committee after February 1) and
   
7. Former advisers appointed by the Norwegian Nobel Institute.
   

One right-wing nutcase in the Norwegian parliament nominates Bush every year....big deal.

Tom DeLay and Instapundit are both eligible nominators, by the way.

[smirkymonkey]

33. I don't have my "panties in a twist"

I just think it is absolutely bizarre that someone could nominate a person who is the biggest threat to world peace that humanity has ever known.

[Davis_X_Machina]

34. When you've got tens of thousands of nominators...

...and two per cent of the general population is stark raving mad, it would be remarkable only if Bush were not nominated.

I'm trying to get my state rep to nominate Pedro Martinez for defusing the threat to peace and stability posed by an incensed and out-of-control Don (the Gerbil) Zimmer last fall.

[smirkymonkey]

37. Only 2%?? I am beginning to think that

it's more like 60% to 70% of the population is stark raving mad. The world just gets more and more insane every day. :)

[MikeGalos]

31. Calm down

Anybody can be nominated. The requirements for running for dog catcher are higher than the Nobel nomination for the Peace prize (unlike the science prizes). All it takes is a written nomination by somebody who is considered qualified (and for the Peace prize that's almost anybody involved in any political or charitable organization). Oh, and you can't nominate yourself.

Now, getting the award is a very different matter.

[Dirk39]

35. Where's Saddam, where's latecomer Louis-Jodel Chamblain,

where's Guy Philippe?
They're not fair and balanced.

Now I know, what I say on judgement day: I wasn't nominated for the Nobel Peace Price in 2004.

Dirk

[Forkboy]

36. two of my favorites!

[SiobhanClancy]

38. Has Ian Paisley been nominated too?

It would make as much sense.

[Barkley]

39. Know Justice, Know Peace!

Chief U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix and Mohamed ElBaradei, heads the International Atomic Energy Agency are my favorites.