sorry, but this is so full of cracklefucks...
a man accepts a peace prize and justifies war in the same breath.
what were these guys thinking when they nominated him?
i like the guy and all, but i dont think he deserves a peace prize. i know i dont deserve one if i endorse a war..why should anyone else?
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Barack Obama justifies war in Nobel Peace Prize speech | News.com.au
Barack Obama receives Peace Prize
Says war is sometimes justified
He needs to live up to honour, say some
MORE than 6000 people marched in Oslo today after Barack Obama accepted the Nobel Peace Prize, urging him to live up to the accolade after a speech justifying war.
The crowd marched in a peaceful, torchlight procession aimed at denouncing nuclear weapons and ended up outside Mr Obama's hotel in the Norwegian capital, police and organisers said.
The US president - who in his acceptance speech said "war is sometimes necessary, and war is at some level an expression of human feelings" - waved to the crowd from his hotel balcony for several minutes with his wife Michelle, protected by bullet-proof glass.
Some of the demonstrators carried banners reading No to Nuclear Weapons or bearing peace symbols.
Another 3000 protesters took part in a demonstration organised by the Norwegian Peace Initiative, calling for an end to the war in Afghanistan, a controlled arms trade, a halt to nuclear weapons and the end of Israeli settlements.
"Yes, Yes, Yes We Can, Stop the War in Afghanistan," they chanted.
"We are here to give Obama a push so that he acts in the spirit of the Peace Prize, that he takes concrete measures to stop the war in Afghanistan," said one of the organisers for the Norwegian Peace Initiative, Benjamin Endre Larsen.
He also urged Mr Obama to implement rules "to control the arms trade", pursue nuclear disarmament "at a quick pace", and pressure the Israeli government "so that the settlements stop on the West Bank".
In his speech, Mr Obama said: "Our actions matter, and can bend history in the direction of justice.
"I am responsible for the deployment of thousands of young Americans to battle in a distant land. Some will kill. Some will be killed,'' he said.
"And so I come here with an acute sense of the cost of armed conflict - filled with difficult questions about the relationship between war and peace, and our effort to replace one with the other.''
He said war was "never glorious, and we must never trumpet it as such'', bur he argued that it could "sometimes be not only necessary but morally justified''.
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