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Obama to Accept Nobel Peace Prize as War President

by snuffysmith | December 9, 2009 at 10:54 am

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How ironic can it get. Its a shame, not to mention the height of irony that the presentation and acceptance of this award comes a week after Obama announces the Afghan Surge Deployment of 30,000 combat troops to Afghanistan.

President Obama will accept the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway tomorrow.

The award, which the Nobel committee said was for Obama's "extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples," comes as he presides over wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and faces an American public that is increasingly skeptical about the U.S.-led efforts there.

Obama will walk a delicate line in his acceptance speech, and the White House said he will acknowledge that he accepts the peace prize as a war president. Aides said he will address Afghanistan and the decision to add troops there and present it in the overall context of the award he is accepting.

The Nobel Peace Prize has become the all-time oxymoron.

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snuffysmith

at 15:25 on December 9th, 2009

“It’s not necessarily an award he would have given himself.”

--Presidential adviser David Axelrod, a senior adviser to Mr. Obama, regarding the Nobel peace prize; image: Chair of Norwegian Nobel Committee with Obama photo

snuffysmith

at 19:14 on December 9th, 2009

Not Satire: Obama to Invoke Aghanistan in His Nobel SpeechThe president plans to speak about war during his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech in Oslo on Thursday. Perfect.