I (one who started thread) heard a year ago Bush would be nominated. He's already acknowledged the photos of him in flight gear on the carrier will be used in the 're'election campaign, so how could you argue with a guy in a warrior's outfit who just won the Nobel Peace Prize? This can't be written off so lightly. Blair, too, has aspirations. He wants to be President of the EU.

The idea of the Peace Prize for those two belongs in Orwell's Ministry of Truth, where war is peace. Or so it seems.