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The anger being voiced over Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize is simply laughable.
Now I'm just waiting for these people to spontaneously combust from their own toxicity.
Let me ask you a question. IF you were nom for this award and you have actually worked hard and been helded in a prision for 17 years to fight communism in China.
How would you feel if Obama beat you? After you were inprision for 17 years just for urging reform?
If you are able, mentally and physically, to backtrack through the posts, who and what I am responding to, you will certainly see the subject was Afghanistan.
It is certainly typical on your part to focus on a post, totally ignoring the context.
As I said before, I guess YOU need to see the "word" in every post to follow along.
Remedial reading is in order.
You post "facts" which have in the past been found to incorrect.
The latest incorrect "fact" being message 571.
You posted a message (571) making a factually incorrect assertion, namely that more people had died during Obamas tenure, compared to the previous 7 seven years.
And as for remedial reading - try constructing sentences with the correct grammar and syntax configuration, before trying to lecture me.
OK?
And while he is waffling and thinking about the political ramifications, troops are dying and the situation is getting worse and morale is in the toilet.
Since he's been in charge, more American deaths have ocurred than in the previous 7 years.
So let's send good after bad...right? Maybe I'll backtrack to earlier posts while Bush was in office and see how adamant you were then in your insistance that Afghanistan got the attention it so needed. So quick to send someone else's kid to be killed. Amazing!
You post "facts" which have in the past been found to incorrect.
The latest incorrect "fact" being message 571.
You posted a message (571) making a factually incorrect assertion, namely that more people had died during Obamas tenure, compared to the previous 7 seven years.
And as for remedial reading - try constructing sentences with the correct grammar and syntax configuration, before trying to lecture me.
OK?
It is a FACT, more soldiers have died in Afghanistan, this year, than in any previous 7.
The conversation was about Afghanistan - it is not my fault you were not able to follow it and have, once again, made yourself look foolish by focusing on phantom posts.
My syntax and grammar are perfectly fine - IF one is able to follow and comprehend the posts correctly.
So let's send good after bad...right? Maybe I'll backtrack to earlier posts while Bush was in office and see how adamant you were then in your insistance that Afghanistan got the attention it so needed. So quick to send someone else's kid to be killed. Amazing!
Iraq?
Link?
Supply the message number in this thread, where I posted the word Iraq?
Now.
Clearly, this out of context post from you was an attempt to bring Iraq into the discussion, mainly because you could not comprehend and follow the posts that went before.
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Originally Posted by Indurain View Post
ahem,
Have 4,500 died since January 2009?
Link please.
NOW.
Have I cleared up your confusion regarding the flow of posts now?
Some people are born embarrassed, and they stay that way through their lives.
The price can be rewarded for :
1. Past accompishements
2. Intentions and cause
Quite obviously Obama got it for #2.
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In awarding President Obama the Nobel Peace Prize, the Norwegian committee is honouring his intentions more than his achievements.
After all he has been in office only just over eight months and he will presumably hope to serve eight years, so it is very early in his term to get this award.
The committee does not make any secret of its approach. It states that he is being given the prize "for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and co-operation between peoples."
The committee "attached special importance to Obama's vision of and work for a world without nuclear weapons." But it also mentioned the UN, climate change and the "strengthening" of democracy and human rights.
The reference to democracy will be noted - perhaps wryly, perhaps with some resentment - by the neo-conservatives, as the spread of democracy, especially in the wider Middle East as they called it, (incorporating Afghanistan) was one of their rallying cries. The Norwegian committee was not impressed and it will probably be a case of vice versa.
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THE ONION to stop publishing. States, "We simply cannot top the announcement of Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize."
