War is peace, right?

Apparently by committing an act of war, you can be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize:

President George Bush, British Prime Minister Tony Blair and the European Union were among known nominees for the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize as the nomination deadline expired Sunday.

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Norwegian lawmaker Jan Simonsen of the right-wing Party of Progress has nominated Bush and Blair several years in a row, including this year.

Simonsen wrote that by removing Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, they lessened the chance of a war using weapons of mass destruction in the Middle East and laid the foundation for the development of democracy.

They don’t have a prayer of winning, but the fact they were nominated says a lot about the nomination process. Full Story.