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Posted By <span style="font-weight: bold;">Paul Craig Roberts</span> On October 9, 2009 @ 11:00 pm<br><br>
It took 25 years longer than George Orwell thought for the slogans of 1984 to<br>
become reality..<br>
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"War Is Peace," "Freedom Is Slavery," "Ignorance Is Strength.."<br>
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I would add, "Lie Is Truth."<br>
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The Nobel Committee has awarded the 2009 Peace Prize to President Obama, the<br>
person who started a new war in Pakistan, upped the war in Afghanistan, and<br>
continues to threaten Iran with attack unless Iran does what the US government<br>
demands and relinquishes its rights as a signatory to the non-proliferation<br>
treaty.<br>
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The Nobel committee chairman, Thorbjørn Jagland said, "Only very rarely has a<br>
person to the same extent as Obama captured the world's attention and given its<br>
people hope for a better future."<br>
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Obama, the committee gushed, has created "a new climate in international<br>
politics."<br>
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Tell that to the 2 million displaced Pakistanis and the unknown numbers of dead<br>
ones that Obama has racked up in his few months in office. Tell that to the<br>
Afghans where civilian deaths continue to mount as Obama's "war of necessity"<br>
drones on indeterminably.<br>
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No Bush policy has changed. Iraq is still occupied. The Guantánamo torture<br>
prison is still functioning. Rendition and assassinations are still occurring.<br>
Spying on Americans without warrants is still the order of the day. Civil<br>
liberties are continuing to be violated in the name of Oceania's "war on<br>
terror."<br>
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Apparently, the Nobel committee is suffering from the delusion that, being a<br>
minority, Obama is going to put a stop to Western hegemony over darker-skinned<br>
peoples.<br>
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The non-cynical can say that the Nobel committee is seizing on Obama's rhetoric<br>
to lock him into the pursuit of peace instead of war. We can all hope that it<br>
works. But the more likely result is that the award has made "War Is Peace" the<br>
reality.<br>
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Obama has done nothing to hold the criminal Bush regime to account, and the<br>
Obama administration has bribed and threatened the Palestinian Authority to go<br>
along with the US/Israeli plan to deep-six the UN's Goldstone Report on Israeli<br>
war crimes committed during Israel's inhuman military attack on the defenseless<br>
civilian population in the Gaza Ghetto.<br>
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The US Ministry of Truth is delivering the Obama administration's propaganda<br>
that Iran only notified the IAEA of its "secret" new nuclear facility because<br>
Iran discovered that US intelligence had discovered the "secret" facility. This<br>
propaganda is designed to undercut the fact of Iran's compliance with the<br>
Safeguards Agreement and to continue the momentum for a military attack on Iran.<br>
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The Nobel committee has placed all its hopes on a bit of skin color.<br>
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"War Is Peace" is now the position of the formerly antiwar organization, Code<br>
Pink. Code Pink has decided that women's rights are worth a war in Afghanistan.<br>
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When justifications for war become almost endless — oil, hegemony, women's<br>
rights, democracy, revenge for 9/11, denying bases to al-Qaeda, and protecting<br>
against terrorists — war becomes the path to peace.<br>
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The Nobel committee has bestowed the prestige of its Peace Prize on Newspeak and<br>
Doublethink.<br>
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