WTF? Obama Gets the Nobel Peace Prize?
By Dave Lindorff
It¹s 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.
We¹re 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.
The Nobel Committee claimed that during Obama¹s short period as
president, the US ³is now playing a more constructive role in meeting the
great climatic challenges the world is confronting. Democracy and human
rights are to be strengthened."
Well, certainly when compared to the prior presidency of George
W. Bush, that statement is correct, but that¹s not saying much. After all,
under President Obama, Guantanamo¹s 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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