Obama won the Peace Prize?

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When I opened the newspaper today, my jaw dropped. Barrack Obama won the Peace Prize? It is not that I don't admire President Obama for the good he's done. I rooted for him when he was running for President (although, I admit, in lack of an even less right-wing canditate), and we have definitely seen improvements since he took office, but that doesn't suffice for a Peace Prize!

He won the prize for his “extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples”. I would think the peoples of Iraq and Afghanistan beg to differ. How can a man responsible for the continuation of two wars win? Isn’t that just an insult to all those people facing the realities of this brutal war? This man has done much good, but also many things that should not be on the concience of a Peace Prize Winner.

I feel so bad for the people who have worked so hard all their life towards peace, who were not even mentioned, but simply washed away by this now quite frightening wave of Obamania. This isn’t right. There are many people much more worthy of this prize than Mr. Obama, and I surely hope he realises this himself.