War & Peace President: Opposition and Approval from Unlikely Sources
EmailABC News' Sunlen Miller reports: OSLO, NORWAY — Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan called President Obama's Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech appalling, while demonstrating against his new war strategy for Afghanistan from the streets of Oslo, Norway today. "I was appalled by the speech of Obama and the speech of the chairman of the Nobel Peace Committee because the speeches were telling us that the only way to peace is through war, and we have to reject that," Sheehan said to NRK. Sheehan traveled to Oslo, the city of President Obama's acceptance speech, to take part in a Peace Coalition rally against "the Nobel Peace Prize Committee that gave the award to somebody who actually is escalating the violence in the Middle East." Sheehan, whose son was killed in Iraq in 2004, said that Mr. Obama's new strategy in Afghanistan is the "same policy of the Bush administration," which she is famous for opposing. Last Tuesday president Obama announced that he will be sending an additional 30,000 U.S. troops into Afghanistan, with the expectation that they could begin to come home, based on conditions on the ground, in July 2011. "I urge Obama not to send any more troops, and to start bringing them home, not in July of 2011 or 2012 or whenever but right now," Sheehan said. Yet President Obama also received an endorsement of that same strategy from an unlikely ally – House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio), who met with President Obama – along with other members of congress – on Wednesday. "On Afghanistan, I told the president yesterday when we met that I support his plan," Boehner said at his weekly press briefing, "I had the opportunity yesterday to speak directly with General McChrystal, and he assured me that he has what he needs to achieve his mission. Now, it's our job to give the commander and our troops all the support necessary as their plan is implemented." While accepting his Nobel Peace prize today, Mr. Obama acknowledged the irony between just having sent additional troops into war, while accepting a prize for peace. -Sunlen Miller
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Posted by: Ryan C | December 10, 2009, 3:14 pm 3:14 pm
Appalling? Now THIS was appalling:
To achieve health care reform, “I’m going to have all the negotiations around a big table. We’ll have doctors and nurses and hospital administrators. Insurance companies, drug companies — they’ll get a seat at the table, they just won’t be able to buy every chair. But what we will do is, we’ll have the negotiations televised on C-SPAN, so that people can see who is making arguments on behalf of their constituents, and who are making arguments on behalf of the drug companies or the insurance companies. And so, that approach, I think is what is going to allow people to stay involved in this process.”
Sources: Town hall meeting on Aug. 21, 2008, in Chester, Va.
Posted by: Bob | December 10, 2009, 3:29 pm 3:29 pm
Thank you Cindy. We are truly moving toward an era, if we are not there already, where leaders try to tell us that Peace is War and War is Peace. The globalists have found their perfect stooge in Obama. Is he so desperate to be accepted that he will say and do anything? There should be a psychological test for Presidents.
Posted by: Bubbles | December 10, 2009, 3:33 pm 3:33 pm
She’s no longer a poster child – she won’t get one tenth the play she did vs Bush. She’s just a tool of the left.
Posted by: OzziePDX | December 10, 2009, 3:42 pm 3:42 pm
Boehner went Dem? I don’t think so. Guess they’re used to hitting the “D” button for those they support and help. :)
Posted by: Michael R. Brown | December 10, 2009, 3:44 pm 3:44 pm
I wonder if Media Matters will go after ABC over the D next to Boehner’s name with the same effort that they attacked Fox News…I doubt it.
Posted by: Sean | December 10, 2009, 4:24 pm 4:24 pm
“I wonder if Media Matters will go after ABC over the D next to Boehner’s name with the same effort that they attacked Fox News…I doubt it.”
I doubt it too.
Especially since FoxNews only makes that “mistake” when its a Republican who’s been caught in a scandal (see Sanford, Craig etc) as opposed to this example which is rather innocuous.
Posted by: Ryan C | December 10, 2009, 4:36 pm 4:36 pm
The military option is regrettable, but it is an essential last resort option in our foreign policy playbook. We were attacked on 9/11 by Al-Qaeda, which was hosted by the Taliban in Afghanistan. If we go away, that threat will not go away but will only come back at us worse than ever. Look what happened there over the last 8 years with Bush putting it on the backburner for his Iraq fiasco. No, this is a job that needs to be finished. And ya’ gotta love those predator drones. The Al-Qaeda and other terrorists say using the drones is inhumane. Those drones are watching the guys who are planning their attacks on us and I know they are very afraid of that eye and missile in the sky. Great precise counter terrorism weapon.
Posted by: hopesprings52 | December 10, 2009, 4:39 pm 4:39 pm
Traces of political philosopher Reinhold Niebuhr are very evident in President Obama’s speech. It’s interesting that Reinhold Niebuhr greatly influences both President Obama and retired Colonel and international relations professor Andrew Bacevich. Yet they reach opposite conclusions on what U.S. policy towards Afghanistan should be.
Posted by: bigalsez | December 10, 2009, 11:20 pm 11:20 pm
Obama is a big disappointment- and the Nobel committee and its award is a joke now.
We were NOT attacked by Afghanistan we were attacked by Saudi’s that came here via Afghanistan but they could have come from anywhere that is the issue we never confronted because it leads to one answer PEAK OIL.
Sarah Palin and other neo-con wacko’s praised Obama’s speech, that say’s it all. War Is Peace(if you’re a sucker)
Posted by: IWW | December 12, 2009, 8:17 pm 8:17 pm