Big Night in History: Peace Prize Winner Escalates War on Afghanistan

[elehhhhna]

Ironical, no?

[jaxx]

1. No.

[kimmerspixelated]

2. Never looked at it like that.

A great but sad point.

[Morning Dew]

3. rec just for that thread title

ironicalicious, indeed.

[elehhhhna]

5. ironitastical, really. nevr thought i'd see it in this lifetime

or dimension.

freaky.

[theophilus]

35. I guess you weren't paying very close attention. Each day is a new day huh? n/t

[SammyWinstonJack]

4. K&R

[MadHound]

6. The mind boggles at the irony.

What a sad statement this makes.

[ixion]

7. yeah, that sad fact crossed my mind as well

tragic irony. :(

[polichick]

8. Yep - pretty crazy stuff. nt

[tabatha]

9. Please could you listen to what

Joe Sestak said on the Ed show today - the radio show.

[inna]

13. what did he say?

just curious. i almost never listen to radio.

[tabatha]

24. Today's archive should be up sometime.

http://www.bigeddieradio.com/archive/

[tinrobot]

10. Person campaigns for more troops in Afghanistan, gets Nobel Peace Prize.

He's doing exactly what he promised in the campaign.

Seems like the Nobel Prize committee and many people here on DU have selective memory.

[frylock]

16. i think that the nobel prize committee and many people here on du were led to believe..

that this guy is pretty smart. i also think that the nobel prize committee and many people here on du thought that obama might be persuaded to change his position once it was realized what a charlie foxtrot a troop escalation would be. i know for a FACT that most people here on DU didn't go for the stalwart and resolute bullshit when bush used it. i also happen to believe that a percentage of people here on DU don't give two shits about policy as long as it's their guy calling the shots.

[AndrewP]

20. Like it's a sporting event

[quiet.american]

11. .... and announces drawdown starting in 2011. (Yes, I know no one wants to hear that.) nt

[redqueen]

14. CHICKENHAWK!!!!111!

BAWK!

[tan guera]

27. conveniently just before

the election. Can you say political? Also, I don't believe it for a second.

[moodforaday]

29. And if you believe that

I'm sure you still expect Gitmo to be closed by next year.

[jpak]

12. Bullshit

yes

[Mari333]

15. Republicans are high fiving him

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/01/bush-officials-rnc-praise_n_375400.html

[Raine]

17. He campaigned on escalating the war

WHY is this a suprise, the one thing he is doing that he said he would.

[moodforaday]

31. Who's surprised?

The escalation isn't surprising. Our masters want more war and they always get what they want. It's not surprising, it's just wrong.

I'd say the peace prize was a surprise to me. It taught me to be even more cynical than I had been.

[AndrewP]

18. I thought about that right away. Yeah, it's really fucked up.

[TwilightGardener]

19. On the plus side, the prize didn't unduly influence policy.

[Echo In Light]

21. Uniquely American

Unfortunately

[FrenchieCat]

22. Yeah.....excuse him for ending two wars he didn't start!

Sorry you won't get it till it's done,
guess Norway folks are more prescient than insulated
Americans who think they are always right about everything fucking thing,
even when they aren't.

[moodforaday]

30. Yeah, because expanding a war

is really ending it. We just have to kill some more people before we can stop killing them. War is peace or, to borrow from another Du-er, escalation is withdrawal.

They used to say that Bush would have to eat a baby alive on TV before his supporters would turn against him. I guess this is true about many supporters of *any* leader. Not a reason to be optimistic about what history awaits us.

[arcadian]

34. He ended two wars? What delusional world do you live in?

You have truly lost it.

[SammyWinstonJack]

23. This should earn him a second peace prize, no?

:evilgrin:

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

25. He should send it back with an apology. And, they should award to someone who deserves it.

[Individualist]

26. K&R

[MissDeeds]

28. I just posted this on another thread

Beyond BS.

K&R

[PufPuf23]

32. Seven new military bases in Colombia

AFRICOM expansion

Complicit in military coup of populist president in Honduras.

The PNAC global foot print design inches along regardless of political leaders.

[Matariki]

33. He should be pressured to return it.