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[GreenYes] Bush and Blair nominated for nobel peace prize
hey all,
sorry i keep sending you stuff without writing individually.  just wanted to 
give you yet another example of insanity.  it's kinda funny in a 
disappointing way.
hope you are all well!
~mark

{i checked this out on urban legends}

>
>TAKE ACTION! Protest the Nomination of George W. Bush and Tony Blair for
>Nobel Peace Prize
> >
> > http://www.eskimo.com/~cwj2/actions/bushblairnobel.html
> >
> > 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."
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > To take action, go to:
> > http://www.eskimo.com/~cwj2/actions/bushblairnobel.html
> >
> > 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
> >
>http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_1801000/1801773.stm
>
>


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