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bigtree (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-09-09 08:46 PM Original message |
I hear the president is going to explain his militarism when he accepts his peace prize |
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Ken Burch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-09-09 08:48 PM Response to Original message |
1. It is a betrayal of the prize to escalate a war.right after you win it. |
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Ocracoker16 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-09-09 08:51 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. even worse, when you were already thinking escalation when you won |
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Ken Burch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-09-09 08:53 PM Response to Reply #2 |
3. That too. |
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951-Riverside (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-09-09 09:08 PM Response to Reply #1 |
14. He didn't ask for it. |
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Ken Burch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-09-09 09:12 PM Response to Reply #14 |
17. I know they gave one to Henry The K. Never did understand what they were smoking that year. |
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spanone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-10-09 08:57 AM Response to Reply #1 |
38. he didn't give it to himself. |
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Raster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-09-09 08:55 PM Response to Original message |
4. Dy-no-mite! |
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tigereye (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-09-09 08:56 PM Response to Original message |
5. fair enough, it is quite a quandary - what do you think he should have done? |
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bigtree (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-09-09 09:01 PM Response to Reply #5 |
9. I would be fine if he sticks to the nuclear issues |
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Neecy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-09-09 08:56 PM Response to Original message |
6. I'll give him this one |
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HuckleB (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-09-09 08:56 PM Response to Original message |
7. ... |
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ProgressOnTheMove (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-09-09 08:57 PM Response to Original message |
8. I feel it best if he accepts the award he doesn't draw attention to it. He deserves the award for... |
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bigtree (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-09-09 09:06 PM Response to Reply #8 |
12. I gotta hear how he lays it out |
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ProgressOnTheMove (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-09-09 09:16 PM Response to Reply #12 |
20. We'll see I won't deny him this moment and can still see the wars separately and as something he'd . |
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bigtree (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-09-09 09:56 PM Response to Reply #20 |
24. we'll listen then |
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polichick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-09-09 09:02 PM Response to Original message |
10. Maybe you can report on the speech - I've heard enough bullshit... |
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HuckleB (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-09-09 09:06 PM Response to Original message |
11. Who did you "hear" this from....? |
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bigtree (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-09-09 09:11 PM Response to Reply #11 |
16. news reports |
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HuckleB (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-09-09 09:12 PM Response to Reply #16 |
18. Thank you. |
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BeHereNow (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-09-09 09:08 PM Response to Original message |
13. OH GOODIE! SOME MORE FINE SPEECHIFYING! |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-09-09 09:10 PM Response to Original message |
15. bigtree when is the speech? ETA: Around noon Irish time on 12/10. |
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bigtree (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-09-09 09:21 PM Response to Reply #15 |
22. webcast |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-09-09 09:24 PM Response to Reply #22 |
23. Thank you! |
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timeforpeace (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-09-09 09:13 PM Response to Original message |
19. "Why? Shut up, that's why. No, seriously, Alfred Nobel was pretty militaristic, yes? Nuf sed." |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-09-09 09:18 PM Response to Original message |
21. "The inability of force to create anything." Napoleon Bonaparte |
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bigtree (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-09-09 10:35 PM Response to Reply #21 |
28. There never was a good war |
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Goldstein1984 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-09-09 10:20 PM Response to Original message |
25. Obama was channeling W |
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ecstatic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-09-09 10:22 PM Response to Original message |
26. Has any other Peace prize winner been second guessed like this? |
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bigtree (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-09-09 10:34 PM Response to Reply #26 |
27. what about Kissinger? |
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HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-09-09 10:40 PM Response to Original message |
29. Yeah, well, the Nobel Prize committee disagrees. |
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bigtree (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-09-09 10:41 PM Response to Reply #29 |
30. suck on it? |
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HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-09-09 10:54 PM Response to Reply #30 |
31. No, I called them. |
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bigtree (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-09-09 10:57 PM Response to Reply #31 |
32. no, I know these folks |
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Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-09-09 11:13 PM Response to Reply #32 |
33. Hey! Don't fuck with my secretary of git 'er done. |
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blues90 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-09-09 11:20 PM Response to Original message |
34. perhaps Obama can wear a dunce hat while accepting it. |
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HuckleB (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-09-09 11:22 PM Response to Reply #34 |
35. Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzt. |
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HuckleB (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-09-09 11:22 PM Response to Reply #34 |
36. Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzt. |
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bigtree (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-10-09 08:46 AM Response to Original message |
37. text of President Obama's Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech |
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