Softening the tone will now get you a Nobel Peace Prize.

I know, I know, compared with George W. Bush, many would truly like to see Barack Obama succeed despite of the current evidence that he will do little to roll back the trashing of the US Constitution, protect civil liberties, provide his own countrymen with health care and curb the use of the US military-industrial complex to kill innocent civilians, but this has to be a page straight from Orwell's 1984 under the heading of war is peace.

Obama awared Nobel Peace Prize for 2009!  as Democracy Now reports it.

My reaction is similar to Glenn Greenwald's but he states it much more eloquently.

If this doesn't make a sham and a mockery of the Nobel Peace Prize, what will?  If they wanted to make an ironic statement to satirize the US regarding its claim to be a peace-loving nation, they should have given the prize to George W. Bush.

Peace out (the window)
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