NORWEGIAN WITH A SENSE OF HUMOR

Via TBogg, and I can't believe I read this:

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.

Surely this one will be laughed out of the first meeting. The way Iraq folded like a tent, and the lack of WMD's found in Iraq leads many of us to question Simonsen's choice of the word "necessary".

Looking at the list of past Peace Prize winners, I fail to see any of them who won for starting a pre-emptive war. It would be the equivalent of nominating Moussolini for his invasion of Ethiopia in the 1930's.

On the plus side, maybe this means Hitchens will go after Bush from time to time.