For many years now, American presidents of both parties have been staunchly committed to Israel and its security. This entrenched policy is an expression of the Jewish-Zionist grip on America’s political and cultural life. It was fervent support for Israel – shared by President Bush, high-ranking administration officials and nearly the entire US Congress – that proved crucial in the decision to invade and subdue one of Israel’s greatest regional enemies.

While the unprovoked US invasion of Iraq may have helped Israel, just as those who wanted and planned for the war had hoped, it has been a calamity for America and the world. It has cost tens of thousands of lives and many tens of billions of dollars. Around the world, it has generated unmatched distrust and hostility toward the US. In Arab and Muslim countries, it has fueled intense hatred of the United States, and has brought many new recruits to the ranks of anti-American terrorists.

Americans have already paid a high price for their nation’s commitment to Israel. They will pay an ever higher price – not just in dollars or international prestige, but in the lives of young men squandered for the interests of a foreign state – until the Jewish-Zionist hold on US political life is finally broken.

Chad....ask yourself why the situation in Iraq is a 'disaster'. If you are capable of working out the correct answer, it will dawn on you exactly WHY this war is such a neccessity, and why we should be committing more, more and more troops. And if at all there is a God, surely it must be that of the Jews, for does not God oppose Satan himself? Tell me, Chad, what exactly do YOU see when you look at the Kaaba?

Chad, the Protocols of the Elders of Zion have been repeatedly proved to be a hoax. Check Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Protocols_of_the_Elders_of_Zion for a good summary of the issues.

As to the war in Iraq, best remember the old adage that stuff-up is much more likely than a conspiracy. Iraq looks like the biggest American stuff-up in at least a generation.

What a cop out, Johnj. A mere stuffup, pushed thru in the face of global opposition, after alarming warnings from soldiers and with a justification that anyone who gave a damn knew in 2002 to be a fabrication?

How convenient a view for apathy, for the passive acceptance of genocide perpetrated in our names. I suppose the enrichment of anyone owning shares in industrial death (Boeing, Raytheon, Carlyle Group, General Electric, LOckheed, Northrop, BAE, Blackwater, ADI..) or its parasites (Bechtel, Halliburton, Five Star, KBR..), all companies dear to Bush & Howards respective troughs, is just coincidence too eh Johnj? You oughta go into politics.

"We need to take our hat off to the Yanks. Jealously is the only thing that prevents other nations admitting that they would want nothing more than to have an ounce of America’s power and affluence."

You sell Australians very short when you assume that Anti-Ameicanism is based on Iraq. We have been watching 'America' operate for a long time now, its propensity to force less powerful countries into allowing both its resources and its people to be exploited to the nth degree to fill American coffers amounts to ecological and cultural rape of entire eco-systems and peoples. This is what I find so repugnant in the 'American' ideology - remember selling the rights to control ALL water in Bolivia? Prohibiting people from even catching the rainwater from their own roofs. What about copper mines in Indonesia which pull billions of dollars of copper out of the ground and leave the local inhabitants penniless with poisoned eco-systems and no redress, etc, etc, etc.