Nobel War Prize

Ok, I'm driving to work yesterday morning and listening to NPR on the radio when I hear the most ridiculous news - Obama won the Nobel Peace prize for "promoting" peace in international relations. Stunned, shocked, dazed, wasn't good enough explanations for the fury that was soon welling up inside. This was made especially true after spending the night earlier researching the Afghanistan conflict and the resultant civilian deaths, yes civilians, you know those people who have nothing to do with fighting, like women and children, farmers, bus drivers, etc. I've been cataloging hundreds of photo's of the victims that are ghastly in scope, and sickening in retrospect that I find it appalling that the president wins a peace prize while conducting bombings and strafes small villages in 50 cal cannon fire. Little children burned beyond recognition, women missing limbs, old men with their bodies ripped in half, and all of them neither Taliban or Al Queda. A president that since coming to power has BROADENED the war in the Middle East, adding troops to Afghanistan, sending unmanned drones into Pakistan, and spending even more tax paying dollars into the military coffers. I mean can anybody seriously see Obama as a equal to mother Theresa, Jimmy Carter, Dalai Lama, Elie Wiesel, and Martin Luther King? All these people spent years striving for peace, and what is Obama's call to fame? First black president? What? Talk is cheap, what have you done sir?

I'm disgusted over it, and I have no respect for the Norwegians and their decision. The prize means nothing to me now and ever more.

I wrote this in latoc regard a very contentious post: http://www.doomers.us/forum2/index.php/topic,54394.135.html

This isn't about giving him a chance, this argument is whether he deserve it or not. It should be blatantly obvious he does not! Yeah, sure, he got it, fine, I and I bet a bunch of other people no longer hold the Nobel peace prize as anything significant anymore. They've turned the whole award into a political joke. Obama is spending our country into oblivion and you're still asking us to give him a chance? Obama is still waging a relentless and infinite war with people half way around the world regardless of who gets hurt and who had nothing to do with 9/11. We're attacking the Taliban, Islamic pashtuns who controlled Afghanistan - we put them in power decades ago, and they were accused of harboring terrorists. Then, without UN approval, we bombed them to oblivion and invaded their country to replace the government with what amounts to a puppet government. This is about controlling nations, opium, resources, etc, not about terrorism. If it was about terrorism, we would be bombing the fuck out of Iran, Syria, SA, Egypt, Pakistan, India, China, NK, Malaysia, and on and on...they all harbor terrorists. Don't for one minute try to play off Obama as being a nice guy. This guy is as militant as ever! Military budgets have increased since he got into office...increased! His answer for everything is to spend more of our tax dollars and borrow from other countries to inflate, inflate, inflate, and more than anything he's inflated the military coffers. How's that for deserving a peace award?

Talking about a world with no nuclear weapons is a damn pipe dream, he knows it too, but it's all for political aggrandizement. I don't see him calling for Israel to remove their nukes like he is for Iran. You're right though, we'll have to live with it, just like we'll have to live with the inflation, the tax increases that are coming, the wars that our children will have to go off and die over, etc, etc, etc. Obama's zeal for all the things we so fervently abhor on the latoc (bank bailouts, tarp, dual tiered big pharm healthplans, patriot acts,) should've been enough to recognize this snake that has slithered into the White House. We don't realize it now, but we elected a smart evil person vs. a dumb evil person, and I ask you: who would you want to live under? I couldn't stand Bush, but I am afraid that the old monkey's last words will go down in infamy: "Some day, my actions will be vindicated."

Below are just some of the pictures that I have compiled that illustrate the human tragedy that the world's Nobel Peace Prize winner has wrought.