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As reported by the Associated Press on October 9, 2009 "President Barack Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday in a stunning decision... " Most people would agree, Obama’s friends and foes alike, that it was "stunning" that the still-green president won the prize, but the general sentiment of astonishment is unwarranted. The decision should not have been "stunning" and no one should have even blinked an eye that he won, because there truly was no one more deserving of the Nobel Peace Prize than President Barack Obama.

Incredulous? Don’t be. One only need look past the fact that under Obama the United States has escalated the war in Afghanistan, started a war in Pakistan, continued that completely justifiable and constitutional war in Iraq (which Obama at one time described as a "dumb" and "rash" war), and threatened Iran with "confrontation" if it does not cooperate with the U.S. and other world powers with respect to its nuclear ambitions. Nevermind the U.S. soldiers and innocent civilians who have died and continue to die in these wars... police actions... terrorists hunts... uh... whatever these military operations are now called. Don’t worry about the fact that America has a major military presence in Germany, Japan, South Korea, and has hundreds of military bases throughout the world. Forget that the United States has the largest military presence of any empire... ever.

The foregoing facts should not detract from what should have been the real reason for Obama’s receipt of the coveted prize: No one has done a better job at bringing peace to the anti-war movement.

The anti-war movement — blah! What a disgusting array of individuals that made up that fad. Such degenerates. They made life miserable for the angelic neocons Bush, Cheney, Rove, Wolfowitz, etc., not to mention they invaded our television sets nearly every night for years with their propaganda.

They posed as enemies of war but their true intentions were transparent — they really hated peace. Indeed, it would be more appropriate to call that movement the anti-peace movement. After all, they made it difficult for the leaders of the United States to continue their peace keeping missionsthroughout the world. They refused to understand what Orwell recognized many decades ago: war actually is peace. They were blinded to the fact that the only way to establish peace in any country is to attack it, lay waste to its infrastructure and then rebuild it from the ground up in our own democratic image... or at least in some similar image with the term "democratic" attached to it.

In spite of the irrefutable fact that the Bush neocons were on the moral high ground, the anti-peace movement just could not see past the dropping bombs, the dismembered bodies of children, and the dead and wounded young American soldiers. The anti-peace movement even forced the Bushites to rein in some of their lofty goals to promote peace through war. Those anti-peace lunatics made Bush et al. look as if they were aggressors, not peacemakers.

Remember the anti-peace protests that accompanied Bush and Cheney everywhere they traveled? Remember the anti-peace rhetoric from the news media? Remember the Iraqi man who threw his shoe at President Bush? (That was funny.) Remember the marches on Washington? Remember the rallies at American universities? That was such a violent, contentious time.

Someone had to rise up, a messiah if you will, to save us from those who preach against taking the necessary measures of violence, bloodshed, and death to achieve peace. Mr. Obama was that man and he should be thanked by all. Those in Oslo recognized this and so should everyone else.

Due to Mr. Obama’s persuasion, charisma, and honesty, the anti-peace movement has finally recognized that Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran and any other peace causing war is necessary. Without Obama they never would have seen this important truth.

Thanks to Obama, one can stroll down a college campus without being bombarded with "Get Us Out of Iraq" signs. Finally, all of those hippies who wandered outside to chant "Impeach Bush" have gone back in-doors to practice what they preach by making love not war. Finally, NBC has stopped doing specials about Cindy Sheehan. Finally, the United States can continue its peace keeping missions (i.e., warmongering) without internal dissent.

Stunning that he won? By no means. He deserved it. With the anti-peace movement out of the way, the United States, with Obama at its head, will now be able to really bring peace to the world.

Jerry Salcido [send him mail] is a trial and appellate lawyer in the San Francisco Bay Area and serves as the chairman of the Alameda County Republican Party and the legal chair for the HomeSchool Association of California. Mr. Salcido’s views and opinions are his alone and are not endorsed by or necessarily those of the Alameda County Republican Party or the Homeschool Association of California.