Asked how he would describe Mr Blair's attitude to President Bush, Mr Carter replied: "Abominable. Loyal, blind, apparently subservient. I think that the almost undeviating support by Great Britain for the ill-advised policies of President Bush in Iraq have been a major tragedy for the world."

Mr Carter condemned the war as "unjustified", and said it had caused "deep schisms" around the globe.

He insisted that if Mr Blair had advised against going to war in 2003 it could have made a crucial difference.

"I can't say it would have made a definitive difference. But it would certainly have assuaged the problems that have arose lately," he said.

"One of the defences of the Bush administration, in America and worldwide - it's not been successful in my opinion - has been that, okay, we must be more correct in our actions than the world thinks because Great Britain is backing us.

"I think the combination of Bush and Blair giving their support to this tragedy in Iraq has strengthened the effort and has made opposition less effective and has prolonged the war and increased the tragedy that has resulted."

Scientology is a dangerous satanic cult accused of making claims which they can neither prove nor substantiate. Drug users who are trying to kick their habit are perfect prey for Scientology. Anyone who criticises them can end up being followed and harassed and they try to destroy your life. People who join them are brainwashed and often end up cutting themselves off from family members who arent amenable to the basic tenets of this cult. Their version of the history of humanity and the world is like something out of a comic book:

"Xenu, was the dictator of the "Galactic Confederacy" who, 75 million years ago, brought billions of aliens to Earth in spacecraft, stacked them around volcanoes and blew them up with hydrogen bombs. Their souls then clustered together and stuck to the bodies of the living, and continue to wreak chaos and havoc today."

The story of Xenu is covered in OT III, part of Scientology's secret "Advanced Technology" doctrines taught only to advanced members. The cult avoids making mention of Xenu in public statements and has gone to considerable effort to maintain the story's confidentiality, including legal action on the grounds of both copyright and trade secrecy. Despite this, much material on Xenu has leaked to the public, largely via the internet.

In Britain the Charity Commission has refused recognition of Scientology as a religion. What religion charges its believers for its services? Scientology is also a money making scam. Avoid it like the plague that it is!

To hell with Wolfowitz! He's a bleeding neo-nazi crony of George Bush and the last person we need in charge of the World Bank. Then again, I guess it doesnt much matter who we have in charge, seeing as how the World Bank is a satanic organisation bent on controlling the policies of third world countries and has no interest in really helping them. Good on China for paying off the debts of so many african nations with so few conditions. The blood-sucking westerners just cant be trusted! (About 100 american troops die tomorrow)

Israel is the only country in the world where torture of political prisoners is not only legal but its supreme court actively endorses it. Palestinians are held without trial under what is euphemistically called 'administrative detention.' The maximum period is six months but it is routinely extended. There are Palestinians who have been held without charge or trial for four or five years.

While the western media routinely present Israel as a beleaguered State in a sea of hostile neighbours, it is the only nuclear power in the region with more than 200 nuclear weapons. Its army has grown to 600,000 and it can deploy more than 2,800 tanks and 700 combat planes, according to the Jaffee Centre for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University.

This gives it a formidable military muscle against the Arab armies which it has defeated in almost all the wars. But since 1982, Israel's military has found itself mired in less glorious adventures, including the costly 1982-1985 invasion of Lebanon and its attempts to crush the intifadah from 1987 to 1994.

In Lebanon it got a bloody nose at the hands of the Hizbullah, whose spirit of sacrifice put the fear of God into the pleasure-loving zionist thugs. Instead of confronting the Islamic fighters, the zionists bombard Lebanese villages using long-range artillery and planes.

Hostage-taking is also a favourite ploy of the zionists. Literally hundreds of Palestinians and Lebanese are incarcerated in the Khiam concentration camp where torture is rampant.

Similarly, Palestinians held without trial are also tortured in prisons inside what is called Israel.
If young Palestinians are incarcerated, their leaders are expelled from their own land. It is ironic that alien occupiers from eastern Europe and America should expel people from their own homes and land where their forefathers have lived for millenia.

The zionists are also extremely sadistic. Young children are targeted for special wrath. Thousands of Palestinian children have been brutally beaten up by the gun-toting zionists. Young stone-throwing Palestinians have been buried alive; others have had their bones broken with rocks, on direct orders from Yitzhak Rabin, the Nobel peace prize winner!

During the intifadah, the zionist occupiers frequently used tear gas in confined spaces, resulting in hundreds of pregnant Palestinian women suffering miscarriages. Another of their favourite ploys is to mix flour and kerosene in Palestinian homes, making it unfit for consumption.

Despite such cruelties, the zionists have failed to break the spirit of the Palestinians. Every Israeli cruelty brings out an even greater determination to stand up to the occupiers.

As the Israeli military historian Martin Van Creveld of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem admitted, 'An army which fights against the weak, becomes weak itself.' He went on: 'In these instances, the army is the sure loser because its victories are without honour and its defeats are always humiliating.'

Israeli soldiers no longer wish to serve in Lebanon, Ghazzah or the West Bank. An army sergeant candidly admitted 'We have to hide from reservists the fact that they're going to serve in the Gaza Strip or they simply don't show up.' The time is not far off when Israeli soldiers would not wish to live in Palestine either.

Already, Israel is the least safe place for Jews anywhere in the world.

Al-Qaeda's supporters in Iraq have said they have captured several US soldiers after ambushing their patrol south of Baghdad. The Islamic State in Iraq, which works closely with al-Qaeda, said in a statement posted on a website on Sunday that its fighters had captured the soldiers - it did not say how many - in an attack on Saturday.

"God has enabled your brothers at the Islamic State in Iraq on Saturday ... to clash with a crusader patrol in Mahmudiya area at the southern part of Baghdad," the statement said. "Some were detained and some were killed.

"We will provide the full details of this blessed operation as soon as they are available." The US military said that three of its soldiers were missing after their patrol was ambushed in Mahmudiya on Saturday.

Military spokesmen in Baghdad also said that an additional five soldiers had been confirmed killed in the attack.

US-led troops backed by helicopters and jets have reportedly launched an extensive hunt for the missing personnel; combing orchards, searching farms and setting up roadblocks west of Mahmudiya.

"We will make every effort available to find our three missing soldiers," Major-General William Caldwell, the chief spokesman for the US military in Iraq, said.

Residents said the patrol was ambushed after it struck a roadside bomb on a rural road in an area of palm groves called Shibaiya, near the town of Yusufiya.

Last June, followers of al-Qaeda captured two US soldiers at a checkpoint in Yusufiya.

Their mutilated and booby-trapped bodies were found days later after a search by thousands of troops.