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updated 11:02 p.m. ET Dec. 9, 2009

HAVANA - Fidel Castro is calling President Barack Obama's accepting of the Nobel Peace Prize a "cynical act," given that he is sending 30,000 more U.S. troops to Afghanistan.

The 83-year-old former Cuban leader initially applauded Obama's selection, but he has backed off that recently.

In a column on a government Web site Wednesday, Castro wrote: "Why did Obama accept the Nobel Peace Prize when he had already decided to take the war in Afghanistan to its ultimate limit?"

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Castro said Obama "was not obligated to commit a cynical act" by accepting the prize.

He said Obama's Dec. 1 speech during which he announced that additional U.S. forces would go to Afghanistan gave him the "impression of listening to George W. Bush."