Bush & Blair = Nobel Prize Nominations

They say that satire died when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, but if a Right-wing Norwegian MP has his way, the Nobel committee will be spitting on its grave.

Harald Tom Nesvik, a member of the Norwegian Parliament from the Right-wing Party of Progress, has nominated U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair
and U.S. President George W. Bush for the Nobel Peace Prize for "decisive
action against terrorism, something I believe in the future will be the greatest
threat to peace." According to the provisions of Nobel, the winner of the
Nobel Peace Prize "shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity
between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for
the holding and promotion of peace congresses."

Tony Blair has ordered more military actions than any U.K. leader since World
War II, with at least one military action every year since 1998. George W.
Bush has urged budgets massively increasing the size and funding of the U.S.
standing military, continued and deepened U.S. military aid for the on-going
civil war in Colombia and Israeli military occupation of Palestine, and
initiated a war not only against Afghanistan, but an undefined, open-ended
"War on Terrorism" which administration officials daily threaten to expand to
other nations such Iran, North Korea, and Iraq.

Vice President Dick Cheney told the Washington Post that the campaign of
warfare the President has launched "may never end. At least, not in our
lifetimes." Both Bush and Blair have refused to work with multilateral
consultation and diplomacy through peace congresses, with Bush's refusal to
secure UN Security Council approval before initiating the war in Afghanistan,
and Blair's refusal to place the British troops occupying Sierra Leone under
the command of United Nations Peacekeeping forces.

Urge the Nobel Institute to reject the nomination of Tony Blair and George W.
Bush. Reckless and ever-expanding pursuit of war is not peace, and awarding
the Peace Prize for massive world-wide military campaigns would be a slap in
the face of peace and justice activists world wide.

For more Bush and Blair's nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize, see:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,645075,00.html

To take action, go to:
http://www.eskimo.com/~cwj2/actions/bushblairnobel.html

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