And no one must never 'hinder the Jewish state'. Or else. I really can't recall Israel ever being an asset to America. To call the war in Iraq 'important' is disingenuous in the extreme. Important for who? Ah, there's the rub. Over the years America has given Israel foreign aid that amounts to four times what it cost to put a man on the moon and what did Israel use it for? To turn Israel into a military monster, a nuclear armed military monster, and to set up a telecommunications industry that allows it to spy and eavesdrop on anyone in the US that it wants to keep tabs on. I'm not making this up. I simply don't have the imagination to outdo the reality of the situation. Israel receives billions from America while its own citizens get $5 an hour for working, often in dirty, dangerous industries that wreck their health, meanwhile millions have no health care at all and even the ones who do are routinely ripped off by their funds, and every night American homeless (men, women and children) sleep on the streets and under bridges and get their breakfast out of garbage cans. Mad world? You betcha!