Protest the Nobel Peace Prize nomination of George W. Bush and Tony Blair!

March 3, 2002

***TAKE ACTION! Protest the Nobel Peace Prize nomination of George W. Bush

and Tony Blair!

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

***PLEASE WRITE YOUR E-MAIL, MAIL OR FAX PROTESTS TO THE NOBEL PRIZE

COMMITTEE!!!

general e-mail: postmaster

(1) Norwegian Nobel Institute

Address: Drammensveien 19, NO-0255 Oslo, Norway

Phone: +47 22 12 93 00

Fax: +47 22 12 93 10

E-mail: postmaster

- Director

Lundestad, Geir, Ph. D.,

Professor of History, University of Oslo

Direct: +47 22 12 93 01

E-mail: gl

(2) Nobel Peace Prize Center

Jarmund, Grete, Project Manager

Direct: +47 22 12 93 31

E-mail: gj

(3) The Nobel Foundation

Sturegatan 14

Box 5232

SE-102 45 Stockholm

Sweden

Tel +46 8 663 0920

Fax +46 8 660 3847

- Michael Sohlman: Executive Director

e-mail: michael.sohlman

- Åke Altéus:Deputy Executive Director, Finance and Accounting

e-mail: ake.alteus

- Barbro Svensson: Secretary to the Executive Director

e-mail: barbro.svensson

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Shoulder to shoulder, Blair and Bush nominated for peace prize

Stuart Millar

Tuesday February 5, 2002

The Guardian

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.

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 " .

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. "

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.

There are signs that Mr Blair and Mr Bush are up against tough competition to

secure the $940,000 (£670,000) prize money and see their names added to an

elite list which includes Martin Luther King, Mother Teresa and Nelson

Mandela.

Other unconfirmed September 11-related nominations are believed to include

Rudolph Giuliani, the former mayor of New York, and Guy Tozzoli, an engineer

who helped design the World Trade Centre.

The winner will be announced in October.

Mr Blair's nomination appears to have brought little cheer to Downing Street.

Last night a No 10 spokeswoman said: " I think it would be a matter for the

committee to consider any nomination. I don't think it would be a matter we

would comment on. "

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Peace, No War!

War is not the answer, for only love can conquer hate!

Please visit our global antiwar information, resource site:

www.PeaceNoWar.net

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