this showed up in my emailbox this morning--
>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:
>the guardian's article
>
>To take action, go to:
>this site
alas!
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