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Excuse me Steven: "Foreign Aid" - who do you think your talking about. New Zealand is not a third world nation. We've backed the West all Century and are currently helping East Timor get back on its feet. Read my reply to Doug and you may understand that he totally got the article wrong. The main point being Helen Clark was not withdrawing from ANZUS, just stating that we haven't been included in it since 1986. If it ever came down to it, you'd be lucky to have a Kiwi by your side. And we will be.

I think that the biggest problem here is that (some) Americans are being too hasty to see where the rest of the world stands on this. Like a school boy who knows he is coming up against a good fight, looking to see see who he can count on. I know this is serious stuff, And to any Americans, NZ is with you. My GreatGrand father was in WW1 and my Grand father in WW2, both along side Americans. It's pretty much the same for any guy my Age. I have a mate who has never meet his grand father because of this. No one has even talked about where the U.S's intrests were in regards to WW2 BEFORE Pearl Harbour. Also, either whoever read this article or whoever wrote it got it way wrong, considering America has excluded NZ in ANZUS since '86. We're not honoring it?? Learn some facts before you start dogging one of your most avid allies for the past 90 years and please stop disrespecting the blood we spilled for world causes. NZ is here and ready, It's just a shame that Americans believe too much of what they read without investigating the facts.