Is this a bad joke...?

Read the Center for Cooperative Research piece first, then imagine Bush winning the Nobel Peace Prize.

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.

I guess it proves that anybody can be nominiated.

Full story here.