By Debra Sweet
Barack Obama just joined the esteemed company of other US winners of the Nobel Peace Prize, notorious peace-niks Henry Kissinger and Theodore Roosevelt.
What do you think about the Peace Prize going to Obama? SIGN ours, or WRITE your own LETTER to the EDITOR here.
Note that Barack Obama is about to sign the biggest war-funding bill in world history; almost certainly will go with the generals and send 40,000 more troops to Afghanistan; is destroying the Kyoto climate negotiations; is refusing to release detainees already cleared and holding them indefinitely; and is directing the rush production of a huge "bunker busting" bomb to attack Iran?
Glen Greenwald, this morning: "Already this year, [Obama] not only escalated the American war in Afghanistan, but has ordered air raids that have produced things like the destruction pictured here.
That was from a May airstrike in which over 100 Afghan civilians were killed by American jets — one of many similar incidents this year, including one only a week ago that killed 9 Afghan civilians. How can someone responsible for that, and who has only escalated that war, possibly be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in the very same year that he did that? Does that picture above look like the work of a Nobel Peace laureate?"
I’m seeing comments today that indicate some people against the war are hoping — against hope — that this prize will force Obama to be more peace-like. But the Nobel Committee once again kept the world status-quo in place, and gave the prize to Barack Obama only to re-enforce his use of "multi-lateral" negotiations, (i.e. superpower bullying) instead of the Bush doctrine style of unilateral invastion.
Write this as a petition , get as many as you can to sign in the next couple days then send to you congress,senate reps (pass it on).;
Whereas the true purpose of our middle east occupation is for Oil, Oil pipelines, and CIA opium under the guise of bringing the inhabitants democracy and ridding us of terrorism. We just need to kill over 1,300,000 (one million, three hundred thousand) of their innocent civilians, women and children and impose on them marshal law to bring them this democracy.(and disperse 340 tons of highly radioactive depleted uranium over their land)
By doing so we ourselves become the terrorists, and breed world over hatred against our nation that may last for generations.
Whereas tax payers pay $trillions$ to fund this never ending war, it profits not those taxpayers, but the war profiteers, the military machine, big oil, and bankers, and is putting our country in great debt.
Whereas humanitarian and rebuilding efforts would be a more effective tool in diplomacy than trying to bomb them into submission.
And that main reasons given for entering this war were lies.
In the last election we voted for change, now we demand it.
We, the under signed, hereby ask that you do all within your power to REMOVE ALL USA MILITARY FORCES FROM IRAQ, AFGHANISTAN, AND NOW PAKISTAN IMMEDIATELY!!!
((Thanx, Rev.))