Saturday, October 10, 2009

Obama's Nobel Peace Prize

What does it take to win a Nobel Peace Prize? Apparently not much, looking at Obama's record what has he done to warrant the Nobel Peace Prize? Maybe it was for his actions in Iraq that decreased the violence there, how about the closing of Gitmo, or was it for the improvements he has made for the Afghan people? Just kidding we all know he has not done any of those things; it looks like he will make his commitment to pull out all "combat" troops from Iraq, mainly because he stopped calling our military "combat" troops. I thought that all of our troops were combat troops, even the cooks are trained to fire a gun and they are there to support the infantry and cavalry troops that we think of as combat troops. If we don't have combat troops there then why do we need support troops? So since we removed the combat troops why can't we bring the rest of our troops home?
How about the situation in Afghanistan, you know the good war? As of today we still do not have a new strategy for going forward, nor do we have an answer for the troop increase that his appointed General requested, even after we lost another 10 soldiers this week in what sounds like the most daring attack yet on one of our bases by insurgents. Maybe if we give him just a little more time he can find a new General that will agree with his position that he can put in charge, that way if his new strategy does not work he can blame someone else.
Also recently announced was that the Obama administration does not think that they will be able to close the horrible Gitmo prison. Why would that be, maybe because nobody wants to deal with housing these terrorists in their prisons.
With so little accomplished how did the Nobel Peace Prize committee select him for the honor. Maybe they felt bad because Saturday Night Live made fun of him, or it could be that they felt he deserved something since he lost the bid for the Olympics. After all in today’s society everybody deserves a trophy for their efforts right.

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