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Taliban Calls Obama Peace Prize 'Unjust'
Evan McMorris-Santoro | October 9, 2009, 7:29AM
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Among the critics scratching their heads over President Obama's Nobel Peace Prize? The Taliban.
Spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid tells the AFP, "We condemn the award of the Noble Peace Prize for Obama."
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"We have seen no change in his strategy for peace. He has done nothing for peace in Afghanistan. He has not taken a single step for peace in Afghanistan or to make this country stable.""We condemn the institute's awarding him the peace prize. We condemn this year's peace prize as unjust."
Mujahid's comments came via telephone "from an undisclosed location."
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dswx
October 9, 2009 7:49 AM
"Spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid tells the AFP, "We condemn the award of the Noble Peace Prize for Obama."
Sounds just like a Republican or Libertarian tea-bagger really! All three share quite a lot in common.
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Xeronimo
October 9, 2009 8:25 AM in reply to dswx
Well, both the Taliban and the Republicans are also deeply religious (at least to the outside), right?
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Schmed
October 9, 2009 8:54 AM
Wow. Limbaugh, Hannity, Rove, and the Taliban all on the same page. Just, wow.
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Trailerville
October 9, 2009 8:57 AM
Sorry, Taliban. Maybe next year.
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The Commenter Formerly Known as NCSteve
October 9, 2009 10:15 AM
Thus speak the peace-loving souls who killed seventeen people yesterday with a suicide bomber aimed at diplomats, sent another suicide bomber yesterday to take out UN relief workers and who regularly kill and mutilate women and little girls for the crime of seeking an eduction. Yeah, salaam, guys. Thanks for your input.
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neesy08
October 9, 2009 10:16 AM
taliban=gop of the arab world
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macartisan
October 9, 2009 10:26 AM in reply to neesy08
"taliban=GOP of the Arab world"
You've got it backward. The GOP (as currently constituted) is the Taliban of North America.
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kenga
October 9, 2009 1:50 PM in reply to macartisan
That is a little more accurate.
I gotta say, that "undisclosed location" bit has thrown me a little.
Has Cheney piped up yet?
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The Captain
October 9, 2009 11:48 AM
Why? Why? are there not liberal pundits, and politicians countering the right wing flip out with "So far the only two groups that condemn the awarding of the peace prize to Obama has been the Taliban, and the political right in the US"! Or "why does Rush, Hannity, and Beck love the Taliban and hate America?" That's all you need to do. The right is doing our work for us! Attack liberal pundits. Attack!
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Middle Road
October 9, 2009 12:54 PM
The Taliban is cause of the misery that Afghanistan is now going through. Hearing them complain about peace is Afghanistan is like hearing the GOP complain about the state of the American economy.
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fafner1
October 9, 2009 1:06 PM
All those fundamentalists hard liners sound alike.
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ncmama
October 9, 2009 1:48 PM
Thanks, Evan, for reading the Canadian papers, since US outlets are too busy repeating the Fox & Limbaugh litany.
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ejg3
October 9, 2009 2:06 PM
The Taliban and a lot in the GOP both share the belief they are God's Only Party (along with a few other groups as well). Lately they seem to be sharing the same attitude towards women as well (keeping her in her place).
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