Barack Obama Awarded Nobel Peace Prize

[fish5133]

My heads definitely screwed now. Says in Bible days will come when people will call evil -good and good - evil

[TonyGosling]

Like Kissinger before him - presumably for orchestrating the Chilean Coup - was also awarded the nobel peace prize.
I guess they are really scraping the very bottom of the barrel to try and find ways of giving these crooks and fascists some media credibility.

[Andrew.]

[scubadiver]

The BBC HYS message board is slightly negative

LINK TO BBC

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[Caz]

Obama is in good company.

Since 9/11 truth was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize last year, I looked into the person who actually did get it.

This peace loving man: Martti Ahtisaari.

http://www.zimbio.com/pictures/JlDJaLpRNFM/Nobel+Peace+Prize+Concert+2 008/2xdEPtZ9EK-/Princess+Mette-marit+Of+Norway

He also received the Felix Houphouët-Boigny Peace Prize on 2 October last year, endorsed by Henry Kissinger:

http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=43500&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SE CTION=201.html

[QuitTheirClogs]

Surprisingly good article in The Times

Comment: absurd decision on Obama makes a mockery of the Nobel peace prize
Michael Binyon - Times Online October 9, 2009
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article686 7711.ece

The award of this year’s Nobel peace prize to President Obama will be met with widespread incredulity, consternation in many capitals and probably deep embarrassment by the President himself.

Rarely has an award had such an obvious political and partisan intent... the prize risks looking preposterous in its claims, patronising in its intentions and demeaning in its attempt to build up a man who has barely begun his period in office, let alone achieved any tangible outcome for peace.

East-West relations are little better than they were six months ago... There is a further irony in offering a peace prize to a president whose principal preoccupation at the moment is when and how to expand the war in Afghanistan.

The spectacle of Mr Obama mounting the podium in Oslo to accept a prize that once went to Nelson Mandela, Aung San Suu Kyi and Mother Theresa would be all the more absurd if it follows a White House decision to send up to 40,000 more US troops to Afghanistan.

Mr Obama’s prize is more likely, however, to be compared with the most contentious prize of all: the 1973 prize to Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho...

The achievements of all* previous winners have been diminished.

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* even Henry Kissinger’s - surely not?

[cem]

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http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2009/10/10/peace-prize-winner-obam a-we-will-target-al-qaeda-wherever-they-take-root/

Peace Prize winner Obama: We will target al Qaeda wherever they take root



1) The 2009 Nobel Peace Prize goes to US President Barack Obama (9 October 2009)
2) Obama: We will target al Qaeda wherever they take root (6 October 2009)
3) Obama agrees to keep Israel’s nukes secret (2 October 2009)
4) The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Resolution on Israeli Nuclear Capabilities (18 September 2009)

from the archives:

1) Israeli President Peres: The best way to deter Iran from continuing its nuclear program is to threaten it with a ‘nuclear response’ (April 2009)
2) European mayors’ petition against the deployment of US nuclear weapons (December 2007)

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http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2009/press.html


excerpt from: The Nobel Peace Prize for 2009

The Nobel Peace Prize website, 9 October 2009

[TonyGosling]

Obama to tackle Afghan war head-on in Nobel speech
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE5B84QN20091209

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama will frame the war in Afghanistan as part of wider pursuit for peace when he accepts the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo on Thursday, a U.S. official said..............

.................."He believes that part of the reason he won this award was not simply about him, it's the fact that there's a hunger around the world for constructive American leadership and this is an affirmation of that," the official said when asked whether Obama would strike a note of humility.

Obama would also say that "in order to achieve our goals the United States has a responsibility to take action on the most pressing challenges that we face, but all nations have a responsibility as well," the official said.

Two leading human rights groups, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, on Wednesday criticized Obama's pragmatic approach to foreign policy, saying too often it was at the expense of human rights promotion, especially in countries such as China, the United States' biggest creditor.

[scubadiver]

[xmasdale]

He spent most of his acceptance speech trying to justify his stepping up of the 9/11 wars. If we compare his laureateship to that of Henry Kissinger (& Le Duc Tho), Kissinger and Le negotiated the ending of the Vietnam war, whatever their other misdeeds, but Obama has not brought peace anywhere. That makes Kissinger more deserving of this prize than Obama, though I hate to admit it.

When will the public stop being infatuated with this man simply for making pretty speeches and being clever enough to win the presidency despite being black?

The Americans have a biscuit called Oreo, which is dark chocolatey brown on the outside and pure white on the inside. Seems like Obama comes out of an Oreo packet.

War is the new peace. Black is the new white. Up is the new down.

[xmasdale]

Le Duc Tho, to give him his due, modestly declined to accept the prize.

Obama's modesty stopped at making remarks about how undeserving he is (an observation I agree with him about) during his acceptance speech about the need to intensify the 9/11 wars.

[blackbear]

xmasdale...."Kissinger and Le negotiated the ending of the Vietnam war"

A different view on Kissinger

AlicetheKurious

....how Kissinger insinuated himself into a position to deliberately sabotage American peace negotiations in Vietnam, at a catastrophic cost to the people of that country, its neighbors and the United States;.....

http://rigorousintuition.ca/board/viewtopic.php?t=25940&postdays=0&pos torder=asc&start=0

The recent release of 40-year-old tape recordings of President Lyndon Johnson complaining about “treason” by Richard Nixon’s campaign for sabotaging Vietnam peace talks in 1968 also reflects darkly on one of Washington’s enduring Wise Men, a person whose views are still sought and respected: former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.

http://consortiumnews.com/2008/122808.html