John Bolton for the Nobel Peace Prize

If anyone one is interested, you can make a list of the ironies assaults on our intelligence in the following US Newswire piece:

Two Americans who played a major role in exposing Iran’s secret nuclear weapons plans have been nominated for the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize.

United Nations Ambassador the Mustache John Bolton and longtime Iran investigator Kenneth R. Timmerman were nominated for their repeated warnings and documentation of Iran’s secret nuclear buildup and revealing Iran’s “repeated lying” and false reports to the International Atomic Energy Agency.

Bolton was formerly U.S. Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security and was author of the Proliferation Security Initiative, an international effort to interdict shipments of weapons of mass destruction and related materials, which led to the eventual breakup of the secret nuclear network directed by Pakistan nuclear scientist A. Q. Khan. Bolton repeatedly warned of Iran’s nuclear plans.

Timmerman, an independent researcher, has written extensively on Iran’s nuclear activities for more than 20 years. His report for the Simon Wiesenthal Center in 1992 first detailed Iran’s ties to A.Q. Khan. His most recent book, “Countdown to Crisis: The Coming Nuclear Showdown with Iran,” was published last year.

Bolton and Timmerman were formally nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by Sweden’s former deputy prime minister and Liberal party leader Per Ahlmark.

Ahlmark is meeting with journalists, opinion leaders and policymakers in Washington this week at the invitation of the Jewish Institute for National Security Afffairs (JINSA).

Bolton has about as much chance of winning the Nobel Peace Prize as I have of winning the Olympic Gold Medal in gymnastics. But this is good for a laugh.

Also, Bolton had virtually nothing to do with developing the Proliferation Security Initiative.