What a joke. Can you believe this?

“War is peace”

A surprising choice. I’ll say hi to Obama when he visits Oslo.

Although I think that Obama is relatively one of the better things that happened to America lately, I also disagree about him winning this prize. He has not done enough to deserve this. But it’s not his fault he won it, so it’s not something to hold against him.

The Afghanistan and Iraq things have grown to quite complicated matters, all started by our beloved mister Bush… However, as much as I hate war, I can understand why people feel that the soldiers should stay there (or even why more should be moved there). Also in our country (the Netherlands) there are lots of discussions about whether our soldiers should stay in Afghanistan or not. But what’s the other option? That’s allowing the Taliban to seize full power and control again and supress the population. And apart from that, our Dutch soldiers are apparently doing great rebuilding works and other developing projects (so they say themselves) so I do see the value of that (although other sources say that 90% of the schools built get destroyed within a few weeks after they’ve been built).

But the other hand, I don’t think the Taliban will ever give up so you might wonder if the whole operation won’t prove to be fruitless after all, no matter how much time/money/soldiers you invest in it. But Bush kind of left us an ethical and moral obligation to stay there and try to make things right, even though it sucks…

So yea in short… My point is that I understand that Obama will want to sent more soldiers.

: )

But Obama didn’t ask for this. He’s just doing his thing, being the president and all… It’s the guys in Oslo you should direct your anger at.

Apart from that, I believe it’s very hard for one man, even the president of America, to influence the well-being of citizens in all those countries since there are way too much factors and powers playing a role in that mess. You can’t expect him to bring peace to all those countries, simply because it’s not possible. He’s not the ruler of the world, just the ruler of America. Personally I think the United Nations should take the lead in the struggle for world peace.

at least he’s in good company now…along with Yasser Arafat among others…what a sham..

This is just a joke. He ‘won’ the peace prize because the public thinks so highly of him. Although I believe his popularity will soon dwindle. He is simply a puppet with a very effective marketing scheme.

Oh well.

Obama basically got this for being much more amicable to the international community than Bush was. Does that mean he deserves it? Eh, I don’t fancy it means much one way or the other.

I think it’s meant to encourage us. Seems fine to me…

Airspeed - 09 October 2009 11:27 PM

The only mistake Bush made was using the WMD reason for trying to get rid of Saddam.

Bush started two endless and costly wars which resulted in the unnecessary deaths of millions, tipped your economy down the toilet, and forever tarnished the reputation of your nation in the minds of many around the world and you think Obama is the bogey man?

Are you seriously suggesting ALL of your country’s problems are a result of Obama’s ONE year in office and not Bush/Cheney’s EIGHT years at the helm?

Do you really believe that everything in the USA was going swimmingly until January 2009?

Step. Away. From the crack pipe, Sir.

*shakes head*

Obama - Nobel Peace Prize? Nah. Not yet.

Bush started two endless and costly wars which resulted in the unnecessary deaths of millions, tipped your economy down the toilet, and forever tarnished the reputation of your nation in the minds of many around the world and you think Obama is the bogey man?

Are you seriously suggesting ALL of your country’s problems are a result of Obama’s ONE year in office and not Bush/Cheney’s EIGHT years at the helm?

Do you really believe that everything in the USA was going swimmingly until January 2009?

Step. Away. From the crack pipe, Sir.

*shakes head*

Obama - Nobel Peace Prize? Nah. Not yet.

Well put.
+1

Kodara, just for conversation and some perspective do you think the people in your part of Europe would have made anti-war statements during WWII while the Nazi

peekaboo - 17 October 2009 04:38 PM

Bush was guided by God.

Politics and religion do NOT go well together… Religion is something in which people should find inner peace and trust, not something which should have a huge influence on politics’ decision making. I mean, the Bible is just a 2000-years old fairy-tale book. Literal interpretations are bullshit and luckily science has caught up with it a long time ago. I do not believe the Bible is the word of God, and therefore I think it’s silly to live by rules that some bishops thought of 2000 years ago. Times change, ways change, rules change. However s

@ topic

Methinks he has yet to earn the award…we’ll see.

That prick doesn

It seems like us Norwegians make ourselves the village idiots of Europe every single time people listen to us.
I can just make a broad statement. The *one* person of the five, who made it so that Obama was selected for peace prize, is a real good example of everything that makes me shake my head about my country. Classic na