Congratulate Obama on Nobel Prize, and Share Your Hopes for Peace
The 2009 Nobel Peace Prize committee has awarded President Obama with this year's honor, citing his "extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples" exemplified in his April 5 speech in which he called for a world without nuclear weapons.
He has many opportunities to be a peace advocate today, as his Administration considers:
* the course of the wars in Central Asia and Iraq,
* how diplomacy can resolve tensions with Iran and North Korea through dialogue better than violence,
* a federal budget that devotes too much money to weapons and too little for families struggling to get by in this economic crisis, and
* how to create the nuclear-free future that Obama has strongly articulated.
Today is a golden opportunity to show that a pro-peace majority supports the President's first steps toward peace and will help him take the next steps as well.
Congratulate Barack Obama and share with him your vision of how we can all help wage peace.
Dear President Obama,
I congratulate you on receiving the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize. It is a great honor, and it demonstrates just how much the international community supports your work in the goal of world peace.
My deepest thanks for the work you've accomplished already, as well as the work you'll continue to do throughout the rest of your time in office. I share your dream for peace.
[Your dream for peace here]
Congratulations.
