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Obama Nobel win shocks Swedish peace group
The LocalEnglish-language Swedish news site (boldface emphasis added)  The Swedish Peace and Arbitration Society (Svenska Freds) has classified as "shameful" the decision by the Nobel Committee in Oslo to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009 to Barack Obama."The choice of Barack Obama as the recipient of the world's foremost peace prize is shocking," said the group's chairwoman Anna Ek in a statement. Ek conceded that the US president had sent "positive signals" with regard to his future commitment to global peace. "But at the same time Obama is the president of the biggest military power in the world and is waging two wars in the world. That should certainly disqualify him from a peace prize," said Ek. Social Democrat press spokesman Urban Ahlin also confessed to being caught off guard by the award. "I was quite surprised I have to say. The efforts Barack Obama has made for peace do not currently correspond to a peace prize," he told news agency TT. My opinion of the intelligence and good sense of Scandanavian peace hippies has gone up a bit after reading this. Posted by: Mike 2009-10-09 |
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