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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.
'If nobody acted then Saddam Hussein could have produced weapons of mass destruction and, in five or 10 years, could have used them against Israel,' he said.
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My friend Caw tends to obsess about things. Once she walked by a dead racoon on the side of the road, and, when she saw a forest ranger the next day she had to have a talk with him about the possibility of rabies. She began to tell him "I walked by this dead racoon. Now, I don't know what killed it, but what if it was rabies? And what if I brushed against it? And what if some of the rabies virus transferred to my shoe?" The ranger stopped her right there and said, "You've got 3 "what-if's" in there, this is too tenuous to even bother thinking about."
An "if" and two "could have's" ... and only time will tell if Bush's actions have prevented a larger war, or will yet cause one.
Okay, that's my crankyness for the day. I hope. I'm really exhausted and can't actually sustain being morally offended for long. We had a nice cookout with Eor's cousin and brother, brother's wife and cousin's wife and kids. Six adults, two small children and three dogs. The kids were the amusement, but I suspect I provided the goofy scene of the afternoon - the hyper husky, one of Eor's brother's dogs, had to be put out on a chain at the other side of the yard as she would have knocked the little kids down by accident. I felt sorry for the pup, so went to visit her, and she quickly wrapped her line around my knees and then swooped up underneath it and jumped on me. I went down like a tree, laughing and getting my face licked off.
I suppose I should go find an e-card for my Mom, because I'm a loser and didn't send a real card. Oops, tea water must be hot, gotta have caffein.
tronella (Read the whole story here)quote:
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.
'If nobody acted then Saddam Hussein could have produced weapons of mass destruction and, in five or 10 years, could have used them against Israel,' he said.
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My friend Caw tends to obsess about things. Once she walked by a dead racoon on the side of the road, and, when she saw a forest ranger the next day she had to have a talk with him about the possibility of rabies. She began to tell him "I walked by this dead racoon. Now, I don't know what killed it, but what if it was rabies? And what if I brushed against it? And what if some of the rabies virus transferred to my shoe?" The ranger stopped her right there and said, "You've got 3 "what-if's" in there, this is too tenuous to even bother thinking about."
An "if" and two "could have's" ... and only time will tell if Bush's actions have prevented a larger war, or will yet cause one.
Okay, that's my crankyness for the day. I hope. I'm really exhausted and can't actually sustain being morally offended for long. We had a nice cookout with Eor's cousin and brother, brother's wife and cousin's wife and kids. Six adults, two small children and three dogs. The kids were the amusement, but I suspect I provided the goofy scene of the afternoon - the hyper husky, one of Eor's brother's dogs, had to be put out on a chain at the other side of the yard as she would have knocked the little kids down by accident. I felt sorry for the pup, so went to visit her, and she quickly wrapped her line around my knees and then swooped up underneath it and jumped on me. I went down like a tree, laughing and getting my face licked off.
I suppose I should go find an e-card for my Mom, because I'm a loser and didn't send a real card. Oops, tea water must be hot, gotta have caffein.