Nobel Peace Prize Nominations of Note

Every now and again, a really valuable person gets nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Somebody with the dignity, reserve, and capability to enact really positive social change finally gets noticed with the simple nomination- demonstrating their even-headed personalities and good work to end major conflict around the world, peacefully.

This year, however, we have the great moustachioed man, the [temporary] US enjoy to the UN- John Bolton.

Two Americans who played a major role in exposing Iran's secret nuclear weapons plans have been nominated for the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize.

United Nations Ambassador John Bolton and longtime Iran investigator Kenneth R. Timmerman were nominated for their repeated warnings and documentation of Iran's secret nuclear buildup and revealing Iran's "repeated lying" and false reports to the International Atomic Energy Agency.

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Bolton and Timmerman were formally nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by Sweden's former deputy prime minister and Liberal party leader Per Ahlmark.

Ahlmark is meeting with journalists, opinion leaders and policymakers in Washington this week at the invitation of the Jewish Institute for National Security Afffairs (JINSA).

Congrats to the new nominees. Couldn't have happend to an individual more interested in solving internationl issues peaceably in the interest of all parties involved. Because we wouldn't be taking Iran to the Security Council [which, of course, the US, and therefore, Bolton is currently President of] because Iran had expelled UN investigators if it wasn't for their work, right? I mean, hey, if this all goes the right way, and all the cards land in the right places, Bolton and Timmerman may have been nominated for a Peace Prize which began and continues the march toward war- and, depending on what happens at the Security Council, of which Bolton himself will largely influence the outcome.

Lovely how that all ties up nice and tight, isn't it?

Truth told, had we spent intelligence and UN resources on Iran at the time of the buildup to the Iraq war, we'd probably all have a much better idea what the hell is happening over there. We also might have a less-extremist-ultra-conservative, combatative president in Iran, who might be more willing for diplomacy and less willing to blow everybody up.