Warmonger Wins Peace Prize

Newspeak and Doublethink. <!--break--> <p><a href="http://pages.citebite.com/a1g8a2u0g4ecp">Warmonger Wins Peace Prize</a> By Paul Craig Roberts</p > <p>It took 25 years longer than George Orwell thought for the slogans of 1984 to become reality.</p > <p>“War is Peace,” “Freedom is Slavery,” “Ignorance is Strength.”</p > <p>I would add, “Lie is Truth.”</p > <p>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.</p > <p>The Nobel committee chairman, Thorbjoern 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.”</p > <p>Obama, the committee gushed, has created “a new climate in international politics.”</p > <p>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.</p > <p><center><a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts10092009.html">READ THE ENTIRE STORY</a></center></p?

<p>Newspeak and Doublethink.</p> <!--break--><p><a href="http://pages.citebite.com/a1g8a2u0g4ecp">Warmonger Wins Peace Prize</a> By Paul Craig Roberts</p> <p>It took 25 years longer than George Orwell thought for the slogans of 1984 to become reality.</p> <p>“War is Peace,” “Freedom is Slavery,” “Ignorance is Strength.”</p> <p>I would add, “Lie is Truth.”</p> <p>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.</p> <p>The Nobel committee chairman, Thorbjoern 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.”</p> <p>Obama, the committee gushed, has created “a new climate in international politics.”</p> <p>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.</p> <p></p><center><a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts10092009.html">READ THE ENTIRE STORY</a></center>?