NRO: Bush, Cheney deserve Nobel Peace Prize.
By on Oct 22nd, 2007 at 2:07 pm
NRO: Bush, Cheney deserve Nobel Peace Prize.
Commenting on Vice President Cheney’s latest threat toward Iran, National Review Online’s Tom Gross declares that Cheney and President Bush are “deserving of a Nobel Peace Prize” for their belligerent posturing:
They are super-mean about them now, but maybe, just maybe, one day peaceniks in America and Europe will recognize George W. Bush and Dick Cheney as the men who prevented World War Three. Surely then they would be deserving of a Nobel Peace Prize?
The NRO’s Kathryn Jean Lopez also encourages Lynne Cheney to run for President.
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Into what Orwellian wormhole have we all fallen?
October 22nd, 2007 at 2:08 pmThese people are so pathetically insecure – with their “Peace-prize envy”.
October 22nd, 2007 at 2:09 pmThere are no real straws to grasp as the neo-cons spin down into the vortex, they are left with imaginary ones.
October 22nd, 2007 at 2:10 pmthis is your First Amendment on drugs.
October 22nd, 2007 at 2:15 pmIn case you had any doubts the Right are insane.
October 22nd, 2007 at 2:17 pmTo be fair, we’ll have to give the award to every President since FDR because none of them launched WWIII either. And, anyway, I thought the neo-cons were convinced that WWIII was the Cold War and that we’re currently in the middle of WWIV — the West against Islamowhatchamacallit.
October 22nd, 2007 at 2:18 pmThat must a serious joke. The Nobel Prize prize committee are laughing their asses off from the thought of Bush and Supreme Leader Cheney as nominees. Is Barney the dog next for a nomination?
October 22nd, 2007 at 2:19 pmNRO: “Bush, Cheney deserve Nobel Peace Prize”….SHOVED STRAIGHT UP THERE ASSES BY AL GORE!
October 22nd, 2007 at 2:21 pmBut I thought that the right didn’t think much of the Nobel Peace Prize? Why should they care if that pair (of…you fill in the blank) got it?
October 22nd, 2007 at 2:22 pmfor a “peace” prize? lunacy!!!
October 22nd, 2007 at 2:23 pm…until the DXM wears off.
October 22nd, 2007 at 2:23 pmJesus H. Christ this country is evil
October 22nd, 2007 at 2:24 pmNope. Sorry. Uh-Uh. WAR crimes is NOT a qualification for a PEACE prize.
October 22nd, 2007 at 2:26 pmJesus H. Christ this country is evil
Comment by rocks911 — October 22, 2007 @ 2:24 pm
Not all of it – just 25% or so.
October 22nd, 2007 at 2:26 pmRaynman @ #1: The Twilight Zone.
October 22nd, 2007 at 2:27 pmThat’ll be the same year Paris and Britney share the prize for science.
October 22nd, 2007 at 2:30 pmIs Rush sharing his drugs with other comedians now?
October 22nd, 2007 at 2:30 pmRaynman @ #1: The Twilight Zone.
Comment by Uncle Ho — October 22, 2007 @ 2:27 pm
I thought it was “Tales from the Dark Side”.
October 22nd, 2007 at 2:31 pmIt’s so funny to watch all the right wingers cry and pout because they can’t win a Nobel Peace Prize, since none of them do anything to support PEACE
And Lynne Cheney for prez??? LOL LOL LOL LOL How pathetic is their field that they are resorting to suggestions like that!?!
October 22nd, 2007 at 2:31 pmAnd Lynne Cheney for prez??? LOL LOL LOL LOL How pathetic is their field that they are resorting to suggestions like that!?!
Comment by ShamRockNRoll — October 22, 2007 @ 2:31 pm
She is the best they have
October 22nd, 2007 at 2:32 pm/snicker
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WAR = Peace Prize?
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October 22nd, 2007 at 2:32 pmShe is the best they have
/snicker
Comment by Wayne
Rudy can be the veep.
October 22nd, 2007 at 2:38 pmThey’ll save a bundle on their wardrobes.
Is National Review a satire publication?
October 22nd, 2007 at 2:38 pmWayne; could be that too.
October 22nd, 2007 at 2:39 pmHow dare we we criticize the President when we’re at PEACE!
October 22nd, 2007 at 2:39 pmBush and Cheney are preventing WWIII ? Ok, so what have these two accomplished with their agendas so far? Destroyed a country, put America in trillions of debt, killed 3838 young lives, made America number one enemy with countries that were our allies, can’t even fix our own destroyed states.
I don’t think we can hold up under much more of this prevention, help whatever Bush and Cheney are doing for us.
October 22nd, 2007 at 2:40 pmWould they give a Nobel Peace Prize to the party/parties responsible for averting WWIII if the same parties were the ones responsible for almost starting it?
Is it terribly important to give Bush and Cheney a Nobel Peace Prize if the award is “meaningless” — as the sour grapes wingnuts have been calling it?
The National Review only plays to a small group of cult-like followers. They’re hardly mainstream.
October 22nd, 2007 at 2:44 pmThe war, therefore, if we judge it by the standards of previous wars, is merely an imposture. It is like the battles between certain ruminant animals whose horns are set at such an angle that they are incapable of hurting one another. But though it is unreal it is not meaningless. It eats up the surplus of consumable goods, and it helps to preserve the special mental atmosphere that a hierarchical society needs.
War, it will be seen, is now a purely internal affair. In the past, the ruling groups of all countries, although they might recognize their common interest and therefore limit the destructiveness of war, did fight against one another, and the victor always plundered the vanquished. In our own day they are not fighting against one another at all. The war is waged by each ruling group against its own subjects, and the object of the war is not to make or prevent conquests of territory, but to keep the structure of society intact.
The very word “war,” therefore, has become misleading. It would probably be accurate to say that by becoming continuous war has ceased to exist. The peculiar pressure that it exerted on human beings between the Neolithic Age and the early twentieth century has disappeared and has been replaced by something quite different. The effect would be much the same if the three superstates, instead of fighting one another, should agree to live in perpetual peace, each inviolate within its own boundaries. For in that case each would still be a self-contained universe, freed forever from the sobering influence of external danger.
A peace that was truly permanent would be the same as a permanent war. This — although the vast majority of Party members understand it only in a shallower sense — is the inner meaning of the Party slogan: War is Peace.
October 22nd, 2007 at 2:46 pmThis is what happens when conservatives are high on the crack.
October 22nd, 2007 at 2:46 pmNo one in this administration deserves a PEACE prize unless it stands for:
P reventing
October 22nd, 2007 at 2:48 pmE very
A merican
C ivil
E quality
The first time I have ever heard of a war being prevented by starting a war.
Jeez these people are silly.
October 22nd, 2007 at 2:50 pmComment by Bush is a four letter word — October 22, 2007 @ 2:46 pm
What is the source of 29? I am guessing 1984?
October 22nd, 2007 at 2:50 pm“They are super-mean about them now, but maybe, just maybe, one day peaceniks in America and Europe will recognize George W. Bush and Dick Cheney as the men who {started} World War Three.”
October 22nd, 2007 at 2:51 pmThe term “super mean” cracks me up.
October 22nd, 2007 at 2:58 pmWhere’d they get that killer weed they’re smoking; is it the gov’t- grown cronic I’ve heard rumors of?
October 22nd, 2007 at 2:59 pmDoes NRO stand for Non-Reality Organization?
Are they kidding? Bush and Cheney want to start World War III! Bush is all giddy and giggly at the prospect!
October 22nd, 2007 at 3:00 pmWell, the war criminal Henry Kissinger, responsible for the Cambodian military coup and invasion which led directly to the killing fields won a Nobel Peace Prize, so anything is possible.
October 22nd, 2007 at 3:02 pmUncle HO, I think you’re right — war crimes are not a qualification for the peace prize.
In fact, I think they’re actually a DISqualification for it.
October 22nd, 2007 at 3:03 pmWould the super-mean peaceniks be the same as the ones mocking a 12 year old boy’s voice, or the one mocking a man with Parkinson?
Yeah, peaceniks are the really, really mean ones in the world.
October 22nd, 2007 at 3:04 pmRudy can be the veep.
They’ll save a bundle on their wardrobes.
Comment by Nevar — October 22, 2007 @ 2:38 pm
I thought he would do better as First Lady
October 22nd, 2007 at 3:06 pmI thought he would do better as First Lady
Comment by Wayne
Better, Wayne!
October 22nd, 2007 at 3:09 pm(I was avoiding that one, ’cause it’s still lunch time here out west…)
15,
That 25% is doing it in the name of 100% of Americans.
October 22nd, 2007 at 3:10 pmIf by “preventing WWIII”, you mean “doing everything in their power to initiate it”, sure, they should be nominated.
Oh, sorry, wrong word. not “nominated”, I meant “indicted”.
October 22nd, 2007 at 3:10 pmI was under the impression, that in order to be eligible for the Nobel Peace Prize, you had to do something in a peaceful way. Starting wars, does no qualify as non-violent.
October 22nd, 2007 at 3:11 pmWow, those 24percenters sure are DILUSIONAL!
October 22nd, 2007 at 3:16 pmRemember the “minds” of these FREAKS are so small and they require so little.
The freaks they hire are a la “you’re doing a hecka of a job Brownie”.
Hey you in the white coats. Yup, those are the ones. Round up and lock ‘em up where they belong … the Asylum!
October 22nd, 2007 at 3:19 pmWell, DICK, I guess since Iran is a sovereign nation, like it or not I reckon they can do whatever the hell they want to.
What is that you’d tell Russia in 1940 if they told us that we couldn’t have a nuclear weapon? Would it consist of two words starting with the letters F and Y?
October 22nd, 2007 at 3:26 pmWell, the war criminal Henry Kissinger, responsible for the Cambodian military coup and invasion which led directly to the killing fields won a Nobel Peace Prize, so anything is possible.
Comment by Not the senator — October 22, 2007 @ 3:02 pm
Kissinger shared the Nobel with Vietnam’s diplomat, for ending the Vietnam war. Not that I agree with the choice for the prize that year, just to clarify.
October 22nd, 2007 at 3:30 pmLet’s see…
1. Starting unnecesary wars.
2. Torture.
3. Rendition.
4. Increasing the hatred in the world.
Yup, that’s more than worthy of a Nobel Peace Prize.
** eyes roll **
October 22nd, 2007 at 3:35 pmThere must be a mistake. I think Bush and Cheney are still in the running to receive the Nobel Piece-of-Shit Prize.
October 22nd, 2007 at 3:35 pmpresident lynne cheney. hmmm, what kind of lsd makes you hallucinate like that?
October 22nd, 2007 at 3:37 pmNobel has a “dickhead” category now?
October 22nd, 2007 at 3:40 pmfunniest thing ive read all day! killing for peace… is that like FU(KING for VIRGINITY?
October 22nd, 2007 at 3:43 pmBloviators bloviating about absolutely nothing.
Has anyone ran this by Billy Krisco? He usually has the last word on
what’s appropriate and forthcoming. Billy used the ‘bloviating’ phrase
to demean Al Gore’s award, so I’m not sure a Neoturd can accept it.
October 22nd, 2007 at 3:46 pmThere really are psychopaths among us.
October 22nd, 2007 at 3:47 pmWhy are these morons whining? The NPP has been given for this year. STFU!
I’m trying to concentrate on getting armed for the War on Christmas.
Sheesh…
October 22nd, 2007 at 3:51 pmIslamowhatchamacallit–Isn’t that a delicious candy bar?
October 22nd, 2007 at 4:00 pmI’m trying to concentrate on getting armed for the War on Christmas.
Sheesh…
Comment by Zooey — October 22, 2007 @ 3:51 pm
What you gonna do? Shoot a reindeer?
October 22nd, 2007 at 4:04 pmI don’t know about you, but I have to get my sleigh bombs ready.
October 22nd, 2007 at 4:06 pmWhat is with the right’wingers and their Nobel Peace prize envy?
One day it’s given to bloviators by bloviators, it’s an anti-American award, and a joke… the next Bush and Cheney deserve it.
What a weird, illogical lot.
Although, were it given to these two, then it would really be a joke.
October 22nd, 2007 at 4:07 pmWhat you gonna do? Shoot a reindeer?
Comment by Keith — October 22, 2007 @ 4:04 pm
Peppering Santa’s ass with birdshot would be a hoot! :-D
October 22nd, 2007 at 4:08 pmPeppering Santa’s ass with birdshot would be a hoot! :-D
Comment by Zooey — October 22, 2007 @ 4:08 pm
And you wonder why you only got a lump of coal last year!
October 22nd, 2007 at 4:12 pmwar is peace. up is down. black is white. if you don’t agree, you are aiding al qaeda.
October 22nd, 2007 at 4:23 pmPlease….please…….lynn cheney run for president. What a gift that would be.
October 22nd, 2007 at 4:32 pmAnd I thought the Nobel Prize was a peace prize. NRO should start the Chicken Hawk Prize with its own endowment. I am sure the President and the Vice-President and all the staffers at NRO would be eligible for the prize.
October 22nd, 2007 at 4:35 pmWow, the Reighwingers are sooooo JEALOUS of Al getting the Nobel Peace Prize that they are tripping over each other to claim that some Criminally Insane Fascist Pigs deserve it for KILLING near 4 thousand of our soldiers and 600 thousand Iraqis, that sure makes NEOCON sense to me.
Lynn “Early Western Lesbian Porno” Gal for President, oh man that one makes my sides hurt from laughing.
Buck Fush
October 22nd, 2007 at 4:40 pmYeah, those two deserve something, but it’s not a peace prize.
Heard of a new bumper sticker.
Impeach Bush . . . Torture Cheney.
October 22nd, 2007 at 4:44 pmInto what Orwellian wormhole have we all fallen?
Comment by raynman — October 22, 2007 @ 2:08 pm
Bizarro World!
You greet people by punching them
Stop signs mean go
People buy stocks that are losing money
War means peace (Bizarros are very Orwellian)
Bizarro Pretzel is President
In the Bizarro world, a cube-shaped planet known as “Htrae” (Earth spelled backwards), society is ruled by the Bizarro Code, which states that it is a crime to do anything well or to make anything perfect or beautiful.
October 22nd, 2007 at 4:54 pmIn other developments, NRO also proposes the following candidates for other Nobel Prize categories:
Lierature: Ann Coulter
Biology: Phillip E. Johnson for his Theory of Intelligent Design
Chemistry: Charles Frito for the invention of Cheetos
stay tuned.
October 22nd, 2007 at 5:25 pmI read through the 70 comments with tears in my eyes, I was laughing so hard. With ABSOLUTELY no intent to insult the other posters (I clicked on “Recommend” for a BUNCH of them), I gotta say that the Comment by ralph the wonder llama — October 22, 2007 @ 5:25 pm topped them ALL!
To the runner ups, congrats for giving my belly laugh for the day.
Ain’t it WONDERFUL when we are in the “troll-free” zone for 71 posts?
October 22nd, 2007 at 6:13 pmHey! I prevented, all on my own, WW2.5, WW4, WW5 and WW7-9. Thank goodness we won’t have to worry about them, eh? Where’s my Nobel?!?!?
Cheers,
October 22nd, 2007 at 6:55 pmAnd you wonder why you only got a lump of coal last year!
Comment by Keith — October 22, 2007 @ 4:12 pm
I stopped wondering years ago. ;)
October 22nd, 2007 at 9:24 pmPredictably, the conservative chattering class and its amen corner in the right-wing blogosphere are apoplectic about the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Al Gore. But their rage and angst about the Nobel Committee’s “politicized awards” for “mass exaggerators” and “deceptive rhetoric” isn’t merely a function of the inconvenient truth of the success of Gore’s global warming campaign. No, the rugged individualists of the right are just hopping mad that they never win prizes designed to recognize contributions to, well, the rest of humanity.
To remedy this perpetual slight, then, here are:
October 22nd, 2007 at 9:27 pm“Conservative Nobel Prizes We’d Like to See.”
Dick Cheney for First Lady!
October 23rd, 2007 at 11:16 pmMaybe Bush and Cheney will get the Nobel retroactively for sending the US into the gutter, thus removing the world’s last remaining military superpower.
October 24th, 2007 at 12:52 pm