I want to thank all of you who have welcomed me to the forum, but I have noticed that there are many views of my posts, but only a few who have either emailed me personally, or responded. It has been suggested that it might be because I live in the United States, and all that is going on in the world as of late. I myself am not happy with what is going on in the world, and wish that my country and my government were not involved with it. While I am proud to be an US citizen, and love my country, I do not agree with our involvement in the Middle East, or even our President for that matter. There are a lot of people in my country who do not support our being over in Iraq. I would hope that you would not judge me based on the leaders of my country, any more than you would want to be judged by yours. I think you will find that despite our living thousands of miles apart, we are not that much different. I love my family and work hard to support them, and in my spare time I love to collect automatic knives. I hope you all understand my meaning and would give me a chance before you judge me as a bad person because of my countries politics. Ken