- It's not a much of a travesty as when Henry Kissinger,
a war criminal of the first order who was an architect of the latter stages
of the Indochina War, and was personally responsible for the slaughter
of well over a million innocent people, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973,
while that war was still raging, but the awarding of the latest Nobel Peace
Prize to President Barack Obama is travesty enough.
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- We're
talking about a man whose practically first act upon taking office early
this year was to escalate the ugly and pointless war in Afghanistan with
the addition of some 20,000 troops, and who, even as the Nobel committee
was discussing his award, was meeting with his military and political advisors
to consider expanding that war even further, both in Afghanistan and across
the border into Pakistan.
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- The
Nobel Committee claimed that during Obama's short period as president,
the US "is now playing a more constructive role in meeting the great
climatic challenges the world is confronting. Democracy and human rights
are to be strengthened."
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- Well,
certainly when compared to the prior presidency of George W. Bush, that
statement is correct, but that's not saying much. After all, under President
Obama, Guantanamo's terrorist prison is still in operation and is holding
people whom even the government admits are guilty of nothing. Under President
Obama, the US has also blocked the Goldstone Report which condemns Israel
of war crimes in its recent assault on Gaza. And under Obama, the US military
in Afghanistan has continued to slaughter disproportionate numbers of civilians
through its wanton use of aerial bombardment, pilotless Predator drones,
and antipersonnel weaponry....
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