[CitizensTruth] Peace - Nobelian or Orwellian?

[Mike Kirk]

The Nobel War Prize     Posted By Paul Craig Roberts On October 9, 2009 @ 11:00 pm

It took 25 years longer than George Orwell thought for the slogans of 1984 to
become reality.

"War Is Peace," "Freedom Is Slavery," "Ignorance Is Strength."

I would add, "Lie Is Truth."

The Nobel Committee has awarded the 2009 Peace Prize to President Obama, the
person who started a new war in Pakistan, upped the war in Afghanistan, and
continues to threaten Iran with attack unless Iran does what the US government
demands and relinquishes its rights as a signatory to the non-proliferation
treaty.

The Nobel committee chairman, Thorbjørn Jagland said, "Only very rarely has a
person to the same extent as Obama captured the world's attention and given its
people hope for a better future."

Obama, the committee gushed, has created "a new climate in international
politics."

Tell that to the 2 million displaced Pakistanis and the unknown numbers of dead
ones that Obama has racked up in his few months in office. Tell that to the
Afghans where civilian deaths continue to mount as Obama's "war of necessity"
drones on indeterminably.

No Bush policy has changed. Iraq is still occupied. The Guantánamo torture
prison is still functioning. Rendition and assassinations are still occurring.
Spying on Americans without warrants is still the order of the day. Civil
liberties are continuing to be violated in the name of Oceania's "war on
terror."

Apparently, the Nobel committee is suffering from the delusion that, being a
minority, Obama is going to put a stop to Western hegemony over darker-skinned
peoples.

The non-cynical can say that the Nobel committee is seizing on Obama's rhetoric
to lock him into the pursuit of peace instead of war. We can all hope that it
works. But the more likely result is that the award has made "War Is Peace" the
reality.

Obama has done nothing to hold the criminal Bush regime to account, and the
Obama administration has bribed and threatened the Palestinian Authority to go
along with the US/Israeli plan to deep-six the UN's Goldstone Report on Israeli
war crimes committed during Israel's inhuman military attack on the defenseless
civilian population in the Gaza Ghetto.

The US Ministry of Truth is delivering the Obama administration's propaganda
that Iran only notified the IAEA of its "secret" new nuclear facility because
Iran discovered that US intelligence had discovered the "secret" facility. This
propaganda is designed to undercut the fact of Iran's compliance with the
Safeguards Agreement and to continue the momentum for a military attack on Iran.

The Nobel committee has placed all its hopes on a bit of skin color.

"War Is Peace" is now the position of the formerly antiwar organization, Code
Pink. Code Pink has decided that women's rights are worth a war in Afghanistan.

When justifications for war become almost endless — oil, hegemony, women's
rights, democracy, revenge for 9/11, denying bases to al-Qaeda, and protecting
against terrorists — war becomes the path to peace.

The Nobel committee has bestowed the prestige of its Peace Prize on Newspeak and
Doublethink.
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