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Barack Obama Accepts The 2009 Nobel Peace Prize
1 hour, 30 minutes ago ago from CuzBuzz
President Obama, accepting the Nobel Peace Prize on Thursday, argued that his recent decision to escalate the conflict in Afghanistan was justified to protect the world from terrorism and extremism. Let us reach for the world that ought to be, he told the 1,000-member audience at Oslo City Hall. Clear-eyed, we can understand that there will be war, and still strive for peace. “We must begin by acknowledging the hard truth,” Mr. ...
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18 hours ago ago from Infidels Paradise
AP : Obama to Note Irony of Peace Prize in Wartime WASHINGTON President Barack Obama is accepting the world's best-known peace award as a wartime president, an incongruity that he will directly speak to when he receives the Nobel Peace Prize on Thursday, White House officials say. The president departed Wednesday to Oslo in an overnight flight, in time to be there for the award ceremony and banquet, and not much more. His ...
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JEFF ZELENY article/ photo doug mills Published: December 10, 2009 OSLO — President Obama, accepting the Nobel Peace Prize here on Thursday, acknowledged the age-old tensions between war and peace but argued that his recent decision to escalate the conflict in Afghanistan was justified to protect the world from terrorism and extremism. President Obama accepted the Nobel Peace Prize during a ceremony in Oslo, Norway, on Thursday. “We ...
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Obama picks up his peace prize
12 hours ago ago from Media General - TBO.com
OSLO, Norway - A wartime president being honored for peace, Barack Obama said Thursday that criticism of his Nobel prize as premature might recede if he advances goals such as a nuclear-free world and tackling climate change. But, he added, proving doubters wrong is "not really my concern." "If I'm not successful, then all the praise in the world won't disguise that fact," said Obama from this chilly, damp Nordic capital, where he is ...
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President Obama's speech today accepting the Nobel Peace Prize confirmed his transformation from dove into liberal warrior. For all his undoubted abilities to win friends and influence people, Obama faced an improbable task today: explaining to Europeans, who have experienced centuries of warfare and want no more of it, why the recipient of the peace prize is going off to war. Obama maintained that peace can depend upon war, which he did by ...
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9 hours ago ago from Politics Daily
President Obama accepted the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize on Thursday, acknowledging the criticism that he was awarded the prize so early in his tenure and while overseeing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. At Oslo's City Hall he gave an aspirational speech on the nature of war and peace, an apt topic given that the Nobel ceremony comes so soon after Obama's announcement that the U.S. will send 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan -- with plans to ...
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6 hours ago ago from U.S. News
WHITE HOUSE NOTEBOOK: Short stay miffs Norwegians OSLO (AP) -- President Barack Obama's decision to break with tradition and not follow the lead of past Nobel Peace Prize winners bewildered some Norwegians. Others thought he was being impolite. Obama had quite a whirlwind day Thursday - he signed the Nobel guest book, huddled with Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg, met with King Harald V and Queen Sonja, and delivered an acceptance speech ...
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10 hours ago ago from The New York Times
OSLO Nine days after announcing a major escalation in the war in Afghanistan, President Obama arrived at Norway's City Hall on Thursday to formally accept the Nobel Peace Prize, evoking the notion of a just war and robustly defending the use of military force on humanitarian grounds and to preserve peace. But he struck a note of humility, saying that compared to some of the giants of history who have received this prize his own ...
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