TED KENNEDY OPPOSED BUSH'S WAR IN IRAQ, WHY DOES OBAMA PUSH WAR IN AFGHANISTAN?

Sen. Ted Kennedy was one of the Democratic voices in the Senate totally opposed to the stupid War in Iraq. Thanks to his speaking out, and thanks to the others, especially Sen. Robert Byrd and VP Al Gore. But where were the others? Why did they go along with the hated Bush/Cheney war machine?

Sen. Barack Obama came out early in 2002 against the War. Yet he remained somewhat muted about it probably due to campaign pressures. But why does Obama now president push and prosecute the War in Afghanistan and even enlarge it?

Afghanistan is worse than Iraq for education, social services, hospitals, schools, roads, infrastructure. Nothing will be solved there by dropping cluster bombs and firing phosphorous or spent nuclear shells. To think that an Afghan farmer, with no primary schooling, with no television, with no radio, is going to be changed by American soldiers, renounce conservative Islam, or become a political progressive calls for a psychological examination. It will never happen.

So why does Obama persist in keeping U.S. troops there? Obama should be smarter than what his foolish military policy indicates. And all the while, U.S. troops fall as casualties in a needless and purposeless war.

NOBEL PRIZE SHOWS UP GEORGE BUSH FOR HIS MANIPULATION OF SCIENTIFIC DATA ON GLOBAL WARMING

The awarding of the Nobel peace price to former VP Al Gore is well deserved, but I sense that the award is also a way for the Nobel committee to criticize George W. Bush for his head-in-the-sand attitude about global warming. So the Nobel prize awarded to Al Gore is also an "anti-Nobel prize" awarded to Mr. Bush for his manipulation of science and his stubborn refusal to recognize the problem because of his preconceived political views.