by wildcherry on Wednesday, December 9th, 2009 | News, World

When President Obama arrives in Oslo Thursday to accept his Nobel peace award and deliver the requisite speech, he will likely be met by anti-war protesters, not to mention a Norwegian public that is evidently upset about his decision to skip a number of Nobel events, including lunch with the King of Norway.

“There is, of course, no escaping the paradox of this moment for Mr. Obama as he delivers an acceptance speech for his Nobel Peace Prize only nine days after announcing that he would escalate the war in Afghanistan by sending in 30,000 more American troops,” Zeleny wrote.

On the anti-war front, about 5,000 people are expected to turn out Thursday to protest the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, according to Benjamin Endre Larsen, leader of Norway’s Peace Initiative.

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