Left rankled over Obama war remarks - Washington Times: "Antiwar Democrats on Capitol Hill are bristling at President Obama's remarks about the need to wage 'just wars' in his acceptance speech for the Nobel Peace Prize last week in Oslo, though the president's speech garnered rare praise from conservatives.
Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich, a leading critic on the left of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, said Friday that the president's musings about the inevitability of war and 'war's instrumentality in pursuit of peace' threatened to lead the United States into more bloody conflicts.
'Once we are committed to 'war's instrumentality in pursuit of peace,' we begin the Orwellian journey to the semantic netherworld where war is peace, where the momentum of war overwhelms hopes for peace,' said the Ohio Democrat.
'Once we wrap doctrines perpetuating war in the arms of justice, we can easily legitimate the wholesale slaughter of innocents,' he said. 'War is often not just; sometimes it is just war.'
Organizers of an antiwar rally Saturday near the White House called Mr. Obama's Nobel speech 'repulsive.'"
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