UK New Statesman Mehdi Hasan on Obama Nobel Peace prize: "Is this a joke?"

News Type: Opinion — Seeded on Sat Oct 10, 2009 9:11 AM EDT

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UK New Statesman Mehdi Hasan: "[Obama] emulating his predecessor's policies on human rights, civil liberties, Afghanistan and a whole host of other issues, the bloody Norwegians go and give him a Nobel Peace Prize.

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Gideon Polya

Key quote:

"And then of course, there is Henry Kissinger. His receipt of the prize in 1973, in the wake of his war crimes against Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, prompted Tom Lehrer to famously remark: "Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Prize."

Consult UNICEF (see: UNICEF ) and you will discover that 338,000 under-5 year old Occupied Afghan infants die each year, 90% avoidably and due to war criminal non-supply of life-sustaining food and medical requisites unequivocally demanded of Occupiers by Articles 55 and 56 of the Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War (see: Articles 55 and 56 of the Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War ) .

Thus 0.9 x 338,000 = 304,000 under-5 year old Occupied Afghan infants die avoidably each year due to US war crimes under Obama - that's 304,000/365 = 833 per day or 833/day x 262 days = 218,000 avoidable Occupied Afghan under-5 infant deaths in the 262 days in which Obama has been in office.

By this utterly disgusting decision - awarding a Nobel Peace Prize to Obama who has killed over 200,000 innocent infants in Occupied Afghanistan alone (so far) - the Nobel Peace Prize Committee is saying, like Big Brother in George Orwell's "1984", that "War is Peace".

Of course Obama is a relative newcomer to the war criminal US Alliance mass infanticide in Occupied Afghanistan (and Occupied Iraq, Occupied Palestine, Occupied Haiti, Occupied Somalia, NW Pakistan) – the whale-killing, war crime accessory, Orwellian Norwegians overlooked the lengthier complicity of Bush, Blair, Brown, Harper, Merkel, Sarkozy, Howard, and Rudd in the mass murder of Muslim Asian children (UN Population Division data indicate that post-invasion under-5 infant deaths in the Occupied Palestinian, Iraqi and Afghan Territories total 0.2 million, 0.6 million and 2.3 million, respectively: Pro-Zionist Western Genocide Denial).

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#1 - Sat Oct 10, 2009 9:17 AM EDT

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The Spirit

Sounds like somebody needs to find a better place to live -- maybe North Korea. They can always use another mouthpiece in their propaganda machine -- especially someone so well-versed in 1950s Soviet rhetoric.

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#3 - Sat Oct 10, 2009 10:07 AM EDT

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rgh234

There were people who dedicated their lives with limited resources to accomplish a lot in terms of real progress towards betterment of the world. Instead, they give it to someone whose only accomplish toward peace is the "piece" of America he gave away to foreign car manufacturers with the cash for clunkers program or the piece of America given to China with out of control spending and the purchasing of our debt.

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3 votes

#4 - Sat Oct 10, 2009 10:14 AM EDT

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Beauty

Mehdi Hasan is perhaps the joke. The problems of our times (directly/indirectly linked to the movement of the dollar) will take decades to solve, that is, if they can be solved at all. His so called bloody Norwegians, according to an annual report by the United Nations found that Norway has the highest standard of living for its citizens. What is stopping them from using their leisure time to climb out of the cave of ignorance like philosopher kings and the guardians in Socrates' Republic to deliver the prize? Obama is a refresing change in everything USA and fostering that is perhaps a first step in stopping the status quo.

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#5 - Sat Oct 10, 2009 10:30 AM EDT

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Gideon Polya

No, warmonger, war criminal, mass murderer and mass pedocide Obama has passively murdered over 200,000 under-5 year old Occupied Afghan infants in his first 260 days in office as surely as if he had personally bayonetted each and every one of them (for details and documentation see "Happy families for mass murderer Obama but 0.3 million infants die in US-occupied Afghanistan EACH YEAR ": Happy families for mass murderer Obama but 0.3 million infants die in US-occupied Afghanistan EACH YEAR ) .

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#5.1 - Sat Oct 10, 2009 5:45 PM EDT

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Beauty

"Obama has passively murdered over 200,000 under-5 year old"

Using the same logic meant, the US or the people known as Americans have passively murdered over 200,000 under-5 year old would be bad inference. Yes, it would be nice to pull out of Afghanistan and ... yawn...yawn... IMO Obama should be focused on immediate pull out of a lost cause. GB, Clinton and GWB spent eons on unsolvable problems, yet people expected a 1yr old admin to keep everyone happy. Could this prize be a repudiation of Mr Obama's predecessors? How can one defend a statement such as warmonger, war criminal, mass murderer and mass pedocide Obama?

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#5.2 - Sun Oct 11, 2009 5:48 AM EDT

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