[yarddog]

As far as I am concerned, it was NZ who abrogated the treaty when they refuse U.S. Ships port.

A few years ago, I talked to a friend who had just got back from New Zealand. He told me about how beautiful the country was and that the people were friendly and intelligent. The only problem was he said he could barely stand the place because every person there was a flaming leftist.

I will say one thing. If all those girls on Hercules are really from NZ then it is primo girl country.

[mrbluesky]

According to the CIA World Factbook 2001 "ANZUS (US suspended security obligations to NZ on 11 August 1986)" That is what Ms. Clark was referring to. NZ has a great deal of its own problems right now, and does not have the resources that the US does. She did however state that NZ would support the US in any way it could. I am an American living in New Zealand, and I thought I would get the facts straight.

[Kiwi and Proud]

No U.S. ship was refused port. It was the U.S. navy that refused to disclose whether they are carrying nuclear arms by their neither confirm or deny policy. So the crux of the ANZUS disagreement was not about being a good ally but about the U.S. objection to New Zealand's nuclear-free policy. We in New Zealand are pretty proud of our nuclear-free status. And thereafetr New Zealand was not allowed to play with Big Brother. As for your friend and his comment that we are all leftist, it is very easy to put labels on people. Besides what is wrong with the left ? In any democracy you have left and right and middle and all sort ... that is what makes a democracy great.