Someone wants to nominate Bush for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Excuse me while I vomit.

Their reasoning: terrorism dropped 44% between 2001 and 2002, to the lowest level since 1969.

Uh huh. They’re also probably forgetting that the U.S.A. is not the only country on this planet (which I find a lot of Bush lovers forget) and they probably don’t read a lot of international news to know that OTHER COUNTRIES SUFFER TERRORIST ACTS TOO. Why don’t you ask someone in the Kashmir region of India about their life in 2002, especially after Jerry Falwell’s remarks caused the deaths of a number of people there? Oh yes… there’s also the Abu Sayyaf rebels in the Phillipines who kidnapped the Burnhams. We’re not even starting to get into what has happened in Africa and Latin America in 2002 — all of which the U.S. did *NOTHING* about.

I’m sure this person and their minions also neglected to read the commentary on Carter getting the prize: Carter’s awarding of the prize was the Nobel people thumbing their nose at Bush. Clinton (whose morals shall not come into play in this entry) did more for peace than Bush did. He helped broker the peace deal between Israel and PLO in 1993 and he did quite a bit for the cause in Northern Ireland. Bush declared war on a 3rd World country in violation of the U.N. charter to look for weapons of mass destruction that *STILL* haven’t been found. And people want to give him a frickin’ prize????

Terrorism dropped in the U.S. between 2001 and 2002 — well… DUH! ANY year other than 1941 and 1995 was more safe for the U.S. I mean, you have a major terrorist attack on American soil — you think the government *isn’t* going to be more vigilant from then on???

*retreats off to read some Barbara Kingsolver and work on a Canadian citizenship application*

Oh yes…

“To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
– Theodore Roosevelt, 1918

(Thanks Brian. Now get off the computer and do something else!)