There are so many aspects and players in the mess that is the Middle East that it makes your head spin.

The modern day mess started with 911.
The War on Terror and the resulting invasion of IRAQ was because of bogus intelligence of WMD's and was supported by Israel.

IS commanders are all members of Saddam Hussein’s former Baathist army.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/the-hidden-hand-behind-the-islamic-state-militants-saddam-husseins/2015/04/04/aa97676c-cc32-11e4-8730-4f473416e759_story.html

None of this would be happening if not for US foreign policy or our own former PM John Howard's willingness to go along with what George Bush Jnr wanted.

500,000 children died in that Iraq war and we all have their blood on our hands for choosing our leaders who supported it.

I'll never vote for either of the major parties again.
Better to choose randoms from the phone book IMO.

Our leaders are the ones that make dumb choices and get the country drowned in debt.
I was taught 'If its not in your wallet you can't afford it'
Make them pay back the debt themselves (not us) or put them all in prison for acting recklessly.

And when they say they are only collecting metadata.. They're lying.
You cant get the metadata without the content.
You think our MP's have any oversight of what intelligence agencies are doing?
They only know what they are told.

'None of this would be happening if not for US foreign policy or our own former PM John Howard's willingness to go along with what George Bush Jnr wanted.'

your ignorance of Islam is astounding.

Runner
How is Islam different to Christianity or Judaism?
It is your wilfull ignorance which is insulting and unforgivable.
And may the millions of innocents of all sides who perish in these insane wars be attached to your soul

Armchair Critic said;
And when they say they are only collecting metadata.. They're lying.

It seems to me that you just do not understand.
If content was included no one could afford the storage. NO ONE !
The amount of storage needed would be unsearchable, the time to search it
would mean the result would be well out of date.

Just think of all the videos that would be stored ! Even still photos
can have secret messages hidden in the binary bits. Put that into
individual frames, or scattered through all frames of a two hour video. !

aaarrrggghhh !

The first shots were fired much earlier, the East African embassies.
The USS Cole etc.
Saddam did have a nuclear program, not far advanced I suspect but I
saw him boast about it. Even if it was just bravo talk, with nuclear
you really just cannot take the risk.

'How is Islam different to Christianity or Judaism?'

YEBIGA

just conmpare the life of Jesus Christ and Mohammed Yebiga and you will have your answer. Christ was sinless while Mohammed was full of sin hence the difference in followers.

Yes very different when they did not have any power
But once the Christians gained any kind of power their cruelty and bloody minded ness
Surpassed the Muslims by many exponential factors - as it does to this very day

When it comes to insane mass cruelty Christians are world champions
we have converted natives into Christian s on every continent
nothing compares to our arrogance

The lasting message of Christ is to suffer unto death - the suffersing and death is glorified
For truth, for love - sure but when truth is manufactured and love is misdirected only patient glorified suffering unto death remains
Onward Christian soldiers!!