Via Sonic...
One has ordered his forces into battle more times than any other postwar British leader. The other threatens military action against "evil" nations and keeps a scorecard of dead al-Qaida leaders, marking each fatality with an X.
Now, Tony Blair and George Bush have received international recognition for their unswerving willingness to use force: a nomination for the 2002 Nobel peace prize.
| Makes a lot of sense to me, not that it'll ever fly... |
The prime minister and US president have been jointly nominated for the accolade by a rightwing Norwegian politician who believes their military campaign against terrorism meets Alfred Nobel's criteria that the winner "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".
| Hard to hold a peace congress when you're sitting in the middle of a pile of rubble, isn't it? |
Harald Tom Nesvik, who represents the Party of Progress in the Norwegian parliament, said yesterday: "The background for my nomination is their decisive action against terrorism, something I believe in the future will be the greatest threat to peace. Unfortunately, sometimes you have to use force to secure peace."
| It's kind a a right-wing thing, I guess — libs wouldn't understand — but, if somebody declares war on you and you do nothing, they're going to win. If you do something, but then stop because you want to be "nice", they'll do something awful to you again. If you keep hitting them and hitting them, until they're eventually pounded into paste, then they're all dead, so there's no fighting left to do. That's called "peace." |
Mr Nesvik has nomination rights as a member of a national legislature. The committee keeps the names of nominees secret for 50 years, but those making nominations often make their choice public. The full list of nominees will not be completed until later this month. |