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Submitted by LatinsforPaul on Sat, 10/10/2009 - 12:06
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The Nobel War Prize
by Paul Craig Roberts

It took 25 years longer than George Orwell thought for the slogans of 1984 to become reality.

"War Is Peace," "Freedom Is Slavery," "Ignorance Is Strength."

I would add, "Lie Is Truth."

The Nobel Committee has awarded the 2009 Peace Prize to President Obama, the person who started a new war in Pakistan, upped the war in Afghanistan, and continues to threaten Iran with attack unless Iran does what the US government demands and relinquishes its rights as a signatory to the non-proliferation treaty.

The Nobel committee chairman, Thorbjørn Jagland said, "Only very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world’s attention and given its people hope for a better future."

Obama, the committee gushed, has created "a new climate in international politics."

Tell that to the 2 million displaced Pakistanis and the unknown numbers of dead ones that Obama has racked up in his few months in office. Tell that to the Afghans where civilian deaths continue to mount as Obama’s "war of necessity" drones on indeterminably.

No Bush policy has changed. Iraq is still occupied. The Guantánamo torture prison is still functioning. Rendition and assassinations are still occurring. Spying on Americans without warrants is still the order of the day. Civil liberties are continuing to be violated in the name of Oceania’s "war on terror."

Apparently, the Nobel committee is suffering from the delusion that, being a minority, Obama is going to put a stop to Western hegemony over darker-skinned peoples.

The non-cynical can say that the Nobel committee is seizing on Obama’s rhetoric to lock him into the pursuit of peace instead of war. We can all hope that it works. But the more likely result is that the award has made "War Is Peace" the reality.

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They must know something that the world does not know.

Submitted by SteveMT on Sat, 10/10/2009 - 20:45.

"Secrecy is Transparency!"

Obama would like that addition to the Orwellian three tenets and your one above.

I cannot believe

Submitted by 2bfree on Sat, 10/10/2009 - 14:02.

My eyes. Absolutely UNBELIEVABLE. They gave the Nobel PEACE PRIZE to this man? A man who continuing the illegal occupation of a country that HAS DONE NOTHING.

Even the Obamanites are saying this is not right. You give a peace award to someone who rallies AGAINST WAR YOU IDIOTS!!!

Good Grief.

I think we can safely say

Submitted by ladalang on Sat, 10/10/2009 - 13:20.

The propaganda of Hitler legend has been out done! I would never in a million years have thought this could happen. I stand in awe and disgust, Nobel is obsolete!

comments@nobelprize.org

let them know what you think!

my letter

Submitted by ladalang on Sat, 10/10/2009 - 13:29.

You realize you have taken Obama well past Hitler propaganda! Obama, the person who started a new war in Pakistan, upped the war in Afghanistan, and continues to threaten Iran with attack unless Iran does what the US government demands and relinquishes its rights as a signatory to the non-proliferation treaty. So to you war equals peace? Obama is the single reason I feel our country is lost as we know it. He's the scariest human being on the planet and has single handedly brainwashed a nation of idiots. Obama has continued Bush's war efforts and even stepped them up. I think according to your logic, Bush is deserving as well. Nobel is a laughing stock and has been since Gore won. You are a joke and each new winner screams of your devotion to propaganda and lies. You wouldn't know peace if it bit you in the ass!

You really should try to get your facts straight.

Submitted by amerianna on Sat, 10/10/2009 - 19:59.

In the late 1980s, the United States partnered with Pakistan to supply mujahedeen fighters with weapons and training to defeat the Soviets in Afghanistan. Then the United States abandoned the region, leaving the Pakistanis, in Clinton's words, "awash in drugs...and jihadists who had been trained up in conjunction with us."

Now the Americans are back. But, rightly, the Pakistanis are wondering if this time they will stay.

This week Qureshi urged the United States not to repeat history, but rather to articulate a "long-term commitment" for the region.

That's exactly what the United States is trying to do with an aid package worth $1.5 billion a year for five years for social and economic development and with discretionary military spending. By building roads, schools and democratic institutions, the United States hopes to combat both Islamic extremism and anti-Americanism.

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Wow amerianna....

Submitted by LatinsforPaul on Sat, 10/10/2009 - 20:31.

Are you pro-intervention? Do you agree on how Obama is bombing and bribing Pakistan?

Ron Paul 2012 for Peace

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Ron Paul 2012 for Peace

another awesome article from Paul Craig Roberts

Submitted by legalizeliberty on Sat, 10/10/2009 - 12:53.

LatinsforPaul Thanks for posting this.
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