Challenge: Dubya wins the Nobel Peace Prize

A much better Afghanistant campaign and the opening up of Cuba with better relations with Iran?
 
I had actually heard his name thrown out amongst possible nominees recently for his work in pursuing peace in Israel and Gaza, and in fighting AIDS in Africa.
 

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I had actually heard his name thrown out amongst possible nominees recently for his work in pursuing peace in Israel and Gaza, and in fighting AIDS in Africa.

your joking right, mr Africa is a country and all the Mandelas are dead is going to get a NPP for fighting AIDS in Africa.
 
I'm sure people have nominated him... Perhaps if Iraq did have WMD...but, Hussein Kamil ordered them destroyed before the PoD...
 
This is bordering on ABS. I suppose if he never had Cheney pulling the strings and wasn't surrounded by ideolouges it might be possible. Maybe he could have tried to mediate a peace treaty between Israel and Syria
 
No 9/11. Bush focuses his efforts on Israel/Palestine, manages to get somewhere- not enough to solve the problem, most likely, but enough that it seems like a major step and gets him the prize?
 
I had actually heard his name thrown out amongst possible nominees recently for his work in pursuing peace in Israel and Gaza, and in fighting AIDS in Africa.

He was actually nominated, believe it or not, for what he'd done in the aftermath of 9-11.

http://www.snopes.com/rumors/nobel.asp

And it's worth noting, Obama has basically been nominated for his first steps towards undoing the damage Bush did. Plus hoping to give him a boost, as the committee did before with awarding Costa Rican President Arias the Peace Prize.
 
If there was no 9/11, and no "war on terror", perhaps he could manage it for his work against AIDS in Africa. Honestly, as an American Democratic Socialist, that's probably the only thing he did in his presidency (besides going after Bin Laden, even if he screwed that up :() I think he did right.


Perhaps if "Excellence in Brush-Clearing" was a category?
 
POD Jan. 20, 2001.

The 11 of september not only four aircrafts in the US were hijacked by al-Quaida terrorists, but also three norwegian aircrafts. The Norwegian Parlament, the Royal Castle and the Nidaros Cathedral were all destroyed just like the World Trade Center.

The reason for this were and are still unclear. A conspiracy against (or by) the norwegian oil industry and anger against the Nobel Peace Price are the most popular explanations, but intelligence agencies seems still be undecided on the cause. To attack the parlament only the day after the general election, when the parlament wasn't in session, is a sign that the Norwegian attack was secondary to the US attacks.

Hardly surprisingly Norway, after replacing its dead parlamentarians and crowning a new monarch, joined the War on Terror as a full partner. The following years saw some small terrorist attacks in Norway by immigrant muslims and the election 2005 resulted in a stronger center-right majority where the populist Progress Party joined the government.

Norway started to get highly negative publicity by joining with the US and since the war in Iraq raised the oil price, helping the Norwegian oil export. Michael Moore dedicaded half an hour of his movie Farenhit 911 to Norway in a highly unflattering way. Naomi Kleins book The Shock Doctrine took several examples of fascist shock tactics from Norway after 2001.

It is widely accepted that giving George W Bush the Nobel Peace Price by 2008 was both a reward for a fairly successful War on Terror, a thank from Norway to the US for past help and a finger to the global anti-war left.
 
Maybe developments between Israel and the Palestinians (POD could be Arafat not rejecting another moderate deal) could get him, or Bush could broker a lasting peace between Syria and Israel (not in the realms of fantasy).

Certainly Bush's legacy in Africa is one of the more endeering legacies.
 
POD Jan. 20, 2001.

That would require a Nobel Committee that actually valued actual accomplishments, which may be ASB. But then, if someone were to have posited a scenario in which BHO had gotten the Peace Prize at this point in his career, it would also have been considered ASB.
 
He was actually nominated, believe it or not, for what he'd done in the aftermath of 9-11.

http://www.snopes.com/rumors/nobel.asp

And it's worth noting, Obama has basically been nominated for his first steps towards undoing the damage Bush did. Plus hoping to give him a boost, as the committee did before with awarding Costa Rican President Arias the Peace Prize.

Ha! I knew this had happened. After reading the first posts I was starting to think I was insane, though... So yep. Keep him concentrated in Afghanistan instead of going after Irak and big chances are it's done (maybe after Bin Laden is caught?).
 
I posted this in another thread, but this might work:

First, the invasion of Afghanistan is hugely successful (and with some dumb luck) Osama Bin Laden is captured. Then, while giving some speech or during some public event, Bush is assassinated. With Katrina and the economic downturn coming, Cheney's (if he wins in 04) approval rating goes to all time lows which helps to contrast the relatively successful presidency of Bush before his assassination.

Since Bush's approval rating was above 90% after 9/11, these extra factors would definitely solidify his ratings in the public image. It might come to a point where the international community sees Bush as a martyr against Islamic fundamentalism and terrorism in general.

Generally, posthumous nominations are not allowed, but there is an exception where a person is nominated before the prize is given out and dies. So Bush is nominated in 2002 (as per OTL), gets assasinated, and after overwhelming support of the deceased president, he wins the Nobel Peace Prize.


It's a far reach, but not impossible or ASB.
 
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