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Wartime President Honored For Peace

Dec. 10, 2009
President Obama has accepted the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway. The ceremony comes days after the president announced plans to send 30,000 additional troops to wage the war in Afghanistan. In his speech, Obama spent a lot of time on the tension between wanting peace but the reality of war.
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