Obama receives Nobel Prize for warfare achievements!
Obama acknowledged the odd paradox that he was being honoured as a Nobel Peace Prize winner on Thursday, a week after ordering 30,000 more US troops to Afghanistan, arguing that sometimes peace could only be wrought through strength.
The leader of the two gory wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the authorizer of an expansion of drone attacks on Pakistan's troubled tribal regions during his 1 year period office, who also failed to provide accountability on torture and allowing such policies to continue in the US, held the finest World Peace Prize during the Nobel Prize ceremony in the Oslo ceremony Hall, where he delivered a ‘justification speech' in which he mention the term "war" 44 times!
On that very stage, Obama gave a ‘4 thousand word speech' giving excuses and defending US wars waged worldwide in the terms of different US presidents, legitimizing warfare as a means of attaining peace.
President Barack Obama has warned that he would not hesitate to wage war if it was "morally justified."
"I'm responsible for the deployment of thousands of young Americans to battle in a distant land. Some will kill, and some will be killed," Obama said on Thursday, during the0 glittering ceremony in Oslo, Norway.
"So, I come here with an acute sense of the costs of armed conflict -- filled with difficult questions about the relationship between war and peace, and our effort to replace one with the other."
This is while avalanches of criticism and disapproval showered Obama, who certainly won't be either receiving any awards from Americans for job creation, fiscal responsibility, or backing up rhetoric with concrete action as all he has presented so far is high expectations and speeches.
While Obama was receiving his prize, several thousand people marched through Oslo to denounce nuclear weapons and the war in Afghanistan.
In Palestine, former Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei said Palestinians made a mistake in thinking that President Barack Obama would change US policy significantly.
As for Pakistan and Afghanistan, critics have questioned the wisdom of giving a Noble Peace Prize to US President Barack Obama who is blamed for the recent surge in violence there, as independently conducted polls show that there was widespread anger and resentment following the prize giving ceremony in troubled parts of Pakistan and Afghanistan, where many blame Washington for instability in the region.
On his part, former Poland President and Nobel Prize laureate shocked Leac Walesa when asked about the latest Obama win stated that there hasn't been any contribution to peace yet and the prize came too fast. He said: "He's proposing things, he's initiating things, but he is yet to deliver."
Former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton said that President Obama should decline the Nobel Peace Prize and then ask to be considered again in three or four years when he has a record.
As for American journalist, Nicholas Kristof, he said the prize still seems very premature.
He asked: "What has he done? ... Shouldn't the Nobel Peace Prize have a higher bar than high expectations? Especially when there are so many people who have worked for years and years on the front lines, often in dangerous situations, to make a difference to the most voiceless people of the world."
Two key White House aides were both convinced they were being hoaxed when they heard the news. "It's not April 1, is it?" one said.
In New York City, Peace activists have carried mock coffins through the city to protest against Obama's receiving of the Nobel Peace Prize. Walking to a slow drumbeat, they carried black cardboard coffins, the first of which was draped in the US flag.
According to polls, even though some American citizens and international personals hailed Obama for winning the Nobel prize, yet the majority, even inside the United States view he does not deserve it, especially in light of the lack of any improvement in the US internal economy and policy as well as the tangible progress toward the vital goals of bringing peace to the Middle East, as his popularity dropped by more than 50% amid skyrocketing levels of worries and disappointment.
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