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After reading the New York Times article this morning, I quickly read the first few pages of comments to see if anyone else was as confused/outraged as I was. Here are my favorites:

As a liberal, I’m getting dismayed at the Nobel Committee. Henry Kissinger a war criminal, responsible for the deaths of umpteen number of cambodians and vietnamese got the nobel peace prize. While not quite on the same scale, Obama is hemming and hawing while Iraqis and Afghans die needlessly by US troop presence. Even more, his hesitance at holding accountable those who engaged in torture at Gitmo or other secret camps makes this award dubious and questionable.

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Looks like I accidentally opened The Onion instead of the New York Times this morning.

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It is indeed a shock that Obama, barely months into office, would win the award. Ironically it comes one day after it was officially acknowledged that he is considering sending more than 40,000 more U.S. troops to Afghanistan — bringing the U.S. total to more than 100,000.

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