Hey Tribe Friends

I have finally recorded my new song called Mr Bush Why Can't We Be Friends which you can listen to for free at www.musicforte.com/member/bluesbro

The background is that 20 or so years ago our country voted to ban nuclear powered and armed ships from our ports. That had nothing to do with our feelings of friendship with the USA, we have always been friends, but we have a democracy and pride ourselves on being clean and green (most of the time) and the only things nuclear in New Zealand are for cancer treatment and research in hospitals.

Anyway, as a consequence, the United States decided that we were no longer friends of the US. They banned us from ANZUS, which was our local defence treaty, stopped allowing us to participate in defence training, denied us free trade agreements, shut us out from most military intelligence and in effect all but shut the door on us.

Things have thawed a little recently. We have been allowed to participate in 3 defence training programs and recently 17 New Zealand soldiers were given US Medals of Honor for service in Afghanistan. Other than that, we are still not friends.

So. I think its about time this stopped, so I wrote a song to protest about it and to try to get people aware of this. As the song says, "Our men fought along with yours on a dozen foreign shores". Why does New Zealand have to look to the likes of China for a Free Trade Agreement rather than the US?

If you are still reading, sorry it took so long to get to the point. I would be super grateful if you would go to www.musicforte.com/member/bluesbro and listen to my song and get your friends to do the same. If enough people listen to it, it will go to the Music Forte Country Top 20 and more people will hear about it and ultimately with a bit of luck, someone at the White House will hear it and tell Mr Bush that we really aren't that bad down under.

My thanks in anticipation.............................................................