I know this is a little late, but I just heard about it. I must have had my head buried in the sand, but I did not know that George W. Bush had been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for 2004 (along with Tony Blair). They were nominated for going to war with Iraq (I wonder if I kick the shit out of the little kid across the street if I can be nominated next year).
Here are one and a half of the architects of the Iraq war being nominated for the prestigious Nobel Peace Prize. They were nominated by Jan Simonsen, an independent member of Norway's Parliament who said "they got rid of a dictator and made the world more safe". He made no mention of the lack of WMD nor the many, many lies we were told to take us into the war, nor of soldiers and the untold number of civilians killed. Instead he said "Bush and Blair definitely still deserve it".
Other nominees included: Pope John Paul II; the European Union (to mark its expansion to include former East bloc states); the Salvation Army; former Czech president Vaclav Havel; former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic and former Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler;
Incidently, the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize was won by Wangari Maathai of Kenya "for her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace"
I guess smarter heads did prevail.
The California Curmudgeon
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