Are very proud of you.

I wish I could say that all Americans are proud of you, but apparently, regrettably, the Right wing nut jobs will not be able to put aside their partisan stance and offer you congrats.

I am also excited at the new prospects that this new award may bring to your political processes. Now that you have such an esteemed group as those at the Nobel Peace Prize committee backing you, perhaps you could remember that Peace, to be truly a universal quality of life, asks (or demands?) that you consider the rights of people to live in peace.

Will drones flying over the rural areas of Afghanistan really help to bring about peace? Will we Americans be proud of knowing that those killed by such drones may be victims of "Computer error?" And how will such a program win the hearts and minds of that populace?

Neighbors of mine who continue to believe that we must be fighting in Afghanistan keep telling me that we HAVE TO BE there on account of women in Afghanistan needing to be freed from the Taliban. But IMHO, women in this nation face a Taliban of sorts.

Perhaps Mr President if you could take a moment and view this video, you would see what I mean.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discu...

For as I watch my nation ONCE AGAIN attempt to bomb a people into democracy, I say we need democracy here first. And no nation that is unwilling as my nation to provide for its own people's health, but instead leaves them physical and economic slaves to the Corporate Insurance Death Panels and Money Grabbers, has any right what so ever to be telling the rest of the world to suffer for what might be decades all of our bombs and our drones


In fact, the expense of those bombs and those drones (14% of our budget goes to the military) is exactly the amount needed to bring about

Universal Single Payer Health Care

which I know that you know all about Mr President, as you ran on that ticket back in 2003 when first asking the good people of Illinois for their vote.



Sincerely

Carol S. F.