• NOT_RICK@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    Yeah in hindsight it was a silly award that felt like a “thanks for not being Bush and Cheney” prize.

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      16 hours ago

      Now look into how many bombs were dropped under Bush/Chaney, and then how many were dropped under Obama. You’ll quickly understand what the Nobel Peace Prize was for.

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          15 hours ago

          You’re saying that there was no Afghan war for the first 10 months of Bush’s admin and no Iraq war for the first two I take it?

          Even with that factored in, from what I can tell the Bush admin dropped nearly double (100k for Obama vs 200k for Bush), although I’m not sure where they’re sourcing their information from.

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            13 hours ago

            It’s a weird argument, because he got the peace prize really early into his presidency; before he could have an impact to get America to drop 100k bombs vs 200k, but also dropping a hundred thousand bombs seems like a hundred thousand more bombs than one would have to drop to be called a paragon of peace…

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              12 hours ago

              Oh for sure, I just don’t think it makes sense to imply he was worse than the people that created the mess in the first place who also happened to drop more bombs.

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                1 hour ago

                Where are you getting your numbers from, cause what I’m seeing is that America dropped way more bombs under Obama than under Bush.