When it comes to peace there is no end to the talk about it.

And somebody even gets a prize for it. This year it went to the wrong person. I want to nominate Lt. Michael P. Murphy

Everybody wants peace, and rightly so.

War is what happens when politicians and rulers get a bug in their suits or up their galabea.

One guy who is responsible for blowing probably more people than any other one person felt so guilty in his role in helping to make wrecking the peace so bloody that he created a foundation to award a prize for it. Alfred Nobel created the Nobel Prizes and each year some person gets the Nobel Prize for Peace and for Science and for Literature and more. Alfred Noble created dynamite and made a fortune off of it.

So each year a bunch of sour pusses in Norway dole out an award and some cash.

This year's winner in the Peace Department was none other than Al Gore, former Vice President and founder of the Church of the Latter Day Environmentalists. He is the Pope of Green, and is not shy about speaking ex cathedra from the throne of St Rachel Carson (Silent Spring author). Like the Pope of Rome the Pope of Green lives in a castle in Tennessee and has his curia doing little green things, all with a huge carbon footprint.

Pope Gore's enemy is not the devil. No, Old Scratch is not the problem here. The problem is, well, us. And cows.

According to doctrine, people and cows are causing the earth to heat up. People drive those cars and fly on planes and want to heat their homes. Cows fart. Both are giving the world a case of the hots, according the Pope Gore. He even made a movie about it with "truth" in the title, though truth and facts were hard to find in the flick. His ideal solution is to rid the earth of both the people and the cows. It's a bit radical to say he wants to get rid of the people, but he has no problem with urging the permanent beano solution for cows.

So all his preaching and his exhorting, in between flying around in private jets and sucking half the power out of the TVA, has earned the Pope of Green the Nobel Prize for Peace, which he shares with the dashing Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a United Nations network of scientists and little Cardinal Greenies.

Which brings me to Lt. Michael P. Murphy.

On October 22, President Bush will award this Navy Seal the Medal of Honor. Posthumously.

Lt. Michael P. Murphy, of Patchogue on Long Island, gave his life so others could live. In June 2005 Murphy led a four man reconnaissance mission deep in enemy territory in Afghanistan looking for a key Taliban leader. He was wounded and crawled into the open line of fire to radio for help for him and his men. He continued to fight. One of the four brave SEALs was saved.

On route, to rescue the SEALs, a US helicopter was shot down. Sixteen SEALs and Army special operations troops were killed in the crash.

There is no question that Lt. Murphy should get the Nobel Peace Prize. He talked the talk. Put his life on the line for "peace".

Al Gore, on the other hand, does not deserve a medal for honor, or a prize for honor, because his cause is one that has no honor.

People and cow emissions are not the cause of a warmer earth, if it is even warmer. There are cycles to everything, and this is probably just part of a cycle. No beano for cows is going to stop us from sweating a bit more.

There is no honor to Al Gore. Pope Green. He is not keeping the peace. A young soldier in Afghanistan has done more for peace than Gore ever will.