Friday, May 09, 2003

ABCNEWS.com : Bush, Blair Nominated for Nobel Prize for Iraq War

HOMINA, HOMINA, HOMINA WHAT!!!!!!! You start a unilateral war on the premise of stopping the proliferation of WMD, then after winning admit there may be none, and that wasn't the actual reason, and you get nominated for Nobel PEACE Prize? Thank God the Norwegian Parliament member who put forth the nomination was three months late.

"OSLO (Reuters) - A Norwegian parliamentarian nominated President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair for the Nobel Peace Prize on Thursday, praising them for winning the war in Iraq.

'Sometimes it's necessary to use a small and effective war to prevent a much more dangerous war in the future,' Jan Simonsen, a right-wing independent in Norway's parliament, told Reuters."

Fortune.com - Magazine - Rummy's North Korea Connection

Okay if I was a conspiracy theorist and paranoid I could spin quite a few scenarios around this story. Most would involve big business, world domination, and the spreading of Democracy through pre-emptive military action. That's only IF I was a conspircy theorist and paranoid.

"Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld rarely keeps his opinions to himself. He tends not to compromise with his enemies. And he clearly disdains the communist regime in North Korea. So it's surprising that there is no clear public record of his views on the controversial 1994 deal in which the U.S. agreed to provide North Korea with two light-water nuclear reactors in exchange for Pyongyang ending its nuclear weapons program. What's even more surprising about Rumsfeld's silence is that he sat on the board of the company that won a $200 million contract to provide the design and key components for the reactors."