Bush and Blair Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

It's Official: Bush and Blair Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize!!!!
For protecting world peace! Great news!

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The Nobel Peace Prize awards committee reported a record 173 nominations for 2004, with known candidates including President Bush, jailed Israeli nuclear technician Mordechai Vanunu and the pope.

Committee secretary Geir Lundestad said the preliminary list includes 129 individuals and 44 organizations, and is likely to be expanded when awards committee members forward their own nominations at their first meeting of the year on March 2.

Last year, there were 165 nominations, and the award went to lawyer and human rights activist Shirin Ebadi, the first Iranian and the first Muslim woman to win.

The committee accepts proposals postmarked by Feb. 1.

``This year, there are not that many new names,'' Lundestad said. ``But we see that as the prize becomes more global, the nominations also become more global.''

The five-member Norwegian awards committee keeps the names of nominees secret for 50 years, releasing only the number with no other information.

However, those nominating candidates often announce their choices, this year including Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair for protecting world peace; the European Union; French President Jacques Chirac; former Czech President Vaclav Havel; Pope John Paul II; former U.N. weapons inspectors Hans Blix and Mohamed ElBaradei; Vanunu, for exposing his country's nuclear weapons program; Cuban dissident Oswaldo Paya; and U.S. Sen. Richard Lugar and former Sen. Sam Nunn for their Cooperative Threat Reduction Program, which is intended to dismantle nuclear weapons left over from the Soviet Union..
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