Heya Diebitter,

We, like the US citizens, are overall proud and supporting of our troops and their work.

However, I think most ozzies were misled into this latest episode by the "superior" US intelligence. We went to war, according to our PM, because there was clear and imminent danger. I feel we have been misled, either by both our PM and the US government or by the US government only (which does not say much about ours). Fortunately we are living in a democracy here, where disagreeing with, and criticizing the govenrment is allowed.

I am simply sorry we got into this mess, for what, to me, were obviously false pretenses. We didn't go to war to topple Hussein..

Sorry mate, and I hope we are mates, but, in this instance, I think we were very wrong.. and so were we in vietnam, imo, by the way.

All that being said, I, personally, make a point to stop everything I am doing, during the repeat of Jim Lehrer's hour here, when they are, in silence, showing the pictures of those fine young, and not so young, men and women (they only show the US ones by the way), that offered the ultimate sacrifice they could for an idealism. And I think about it very much on a daily basis.