Australia

Really a very pointless and silly web site I stumbled upon searching for information on citizen initiated referenda. Probably shouldn't really encourage folly by responding but would like to know one thing. Regardless of what side you may be on it would be hard to assert that the current strategy being employed is even remotely a success. There is really no evidence that military actions, rather than police and security work, does anything other than increase the risk of attack. This web site, like the current government policy, does not really take the war seriously and should be seen as an afront to both common sense and the men and women of our armed services we have asked to take part in either a morally wrong or strategically incompetent war.

Australia

Sydney

Islam a religion of peace? The very thought of it makes me laugh! Log onto www.masada2000.org and scroll down to 'Protect Your Throat' then click on one of the videos and see who's laughing! They are pure evil! This could happen to us here in Australia if our Government keep letting these evil people in! Lets work together to keep them out!

Australia

Melbourne

Mate, you're a royal d_ckhead. 85% of your site is pure, unadulterated lies. And the other 15% are facts taken out of context. From one Australian to (supposedly) another: YOU ARE THE TRUE ENEMY OF THIS GREAT LAND.

australia

melbourne

Biggest load of propoganda crap I ever did read. You'd have to be a real moron to believe any of this redneck rubbish

Iraq

(part 1 of 2)

IN Iraq last month, I learned a great deal about the future of combat. By watching TV.
During the initial fighting in Fallujah, I tuned in al-Jazeera and the BBC. At the same time, I was getting insider reports from the battlefield, from a U.S. military source on the scene and through Kurdish intelligence. I saw two different battles.

The media weren't reporting. They were taking sides. With our enemies. And our enemies won. Because, under media assault, we lost our will to fight on.

During the combat operations, al-Jazeera constantly aired trumped-up footage and insisted that U.S. Marines were destroying Fallujah and purposely targeting women and children, causing hundreds of innocent casualties as part of an American crusade against Arabs.

It was entirely untrue. But the truth didn't matter. Al-Jazeera told a receptive audience what it wanted to believe. Oh, and the "Arab CNN" immediately followed the Fallujah clips with video of Israeli "atrocities." Connecting the dots was easy for those nurtured on hatred.

The Marines in Fallujah weren't beaten by the terrorists and insurgents, who were being eliminated effectively and accurately. They were beaten by al-Jazeera. By lies.

Get used to it.

(Cont'd in Part 2)

Iraq

(Part 2 of 2)
This is the new reality of combat. Not only in Iraq. But in every broken country, plague pit and terrorist refuge to which our troops will have to go in the future. And we can't change it. So we had better roll up our camouflage sleeves and deal with it.

The media is often referred to off-handedly as a strategic factor. But we still don't fully appreciate its fatal power. Conditioned by the relative objectivity and ultimate respect for facts of the U.S. media, we fail to understand that, even in Europe, the media has become little more than a tool of propaganda.

That propaganda is increasingly, viciously, mindlessly anti-American. When our forces engage in tactical combat, dishonest media reporting immediately creates drag on the chain of command all the way up to the president.

Real atrocities aren't required. Everything American soldiers do is portrayed as an atrocity. World opinion is outraged, no matter how judiciously we fight.

With each passing day — sometimes with each hour — the pressure builds on our government to halt combat operations, to offer the enemy a pause, to negotiate . . . in essence, to give up.

We saw it in Fallujah, where slow-paced tactical success led only to cease-fires that comforted the enemy and gave the global media time to pound us even harder. Those cease-fires were worrisomely reminiscent of the bombing halts during the Vietnam War — except that everything happens faster now.

Even in Operation Desert Storm, the effect of images trumped reality and purpose. The exaggerated carnage of the "highway of death" north from Kuwait City led us to stop the war before we had sufficiently punished the truly guilty — Saddam's Republican Guard and the regime's leadership. We're still paying for that mistake.

Australia

Melbourne

This was posted in our guestbook:

Suggest some of the feral left and cowards who post here go check out http://targetaustralia.multiservers.com... Its an All Aussie Anti-Terror Site that aims to educate the Australian Public about the threat International Terrorism poses to our way of life... and how to protect one's family in the event of a Terrorist attack on Australian soil!

As foolish as some of you are I sincerely hope you're not walking past the building that goes up or on the plane that goes down...

Left, right, up or down... get over it. Our site http://bigbackseat.exemplar.com.au is hardly political.

Australia

Adelaide

I think I understand now. This site is just part of a uni students study to see how many paranoid and ill-informed people believe the "Arab Terrorist Threat" story.
You need to look a little deeper people. Who is annoying the Arabs enough to encourage retribution against the west?
Israel, and Israel has a massive influence on US Foreign Policy.
So a real reason why Arabs are against the west is because we associate with the Jews. Yet didnt Jesus Christ speak out against the Jews also. Have we forgotten our lessons. Why have the Jews been kicked out of so many communities in the last 2000 years. Why? They hold beliefs that are not consistent with their host communities. They have infested the west again.
The Jews want the west to harass the Arabs. Their only concern is a Greater Israel. Three times as many Palestinians have died than Israelis since the Sept 00 uprising. Yet, they are allowed by the UN and the west to get away with it. If you were an Arab wouldnt that annoy you. Wouldnt you fight back?
Interesting site!!!!!!

Australia

Bunbury

I'm sure that by now everyone has seen news reports concerning the letter from al-Qaeda claiming responsibility for the Madrid atrocity...

...and the threats it contains concerning further attacks on the West...

"We bring the good news to Muslims of the world that the expected 'Winds of Black Death' strike against America is now in its final stage...90 per cent (ready) and Allah willing near," the letter said.

Is it just me or does the phrase "Winds of Black Death" sound ominously like a threat of Nuclear and/or Bio-Chemical attack?

U.S.A.

NYC, New York

My husband is currently serving in Iraq and I can not even begin to tell you how heart-warming and encouraging it is for me - AND ALL SERVICE WIVES (and husbands) - to know that we are NOT alone in supporting our brave men (and women) in uniform who are willing to put their lives on the line in the War against Terrorism!

As the previous poster said ....

Stay safe! Stay Free!

God bless you all!