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Old 10-10-2009, 01:38 AM
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Earlier in the video, the spokesperson for the committee speaks, and I was actually sympathetic to him because he explicitly acknowledges that the award is being given in hopes of influencing Obama's future actions. But as one former winner has said, "The Nobel committee is not meeting the conditions of Alfred Nobel's will, because he stipulated that the award is to be given to people who end militarism and war and are for disarmament."
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