Dear runner,

Your link appears to be down. Repost it and I promise to look at it and respond. Meanwhile here is one for you, a rather brave artist sticking one up ISIS.
http://youtu.be/ZkEo5aPHzoU

Dear Poirot,

It most certainly is becoming more pervasive. Abbott is in desperate need of a 'Tampa' moment. He knows how well his bluster over the Ukraine tragedy rated so he seems to be trolling to escalate. Unfortunately there will probably be Aussie lives sacrificed.

Dear Paul1405,

While there have been a few wars I am glad we as a country chose to participate in but choosing to go to war is an act that those in power need to give deep deliberation to before committing lives and resources. Every bit of evidence seems to indicate that deep deliberation is not high on Abbott's list.

Dear Hasbeen,

Fully agree. Looking for a war to divert from dismal polling figures would disgust most people.

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Dear onthebeach,

The event was free but at the end I regretted not having brought my wallet as I would have liked to purchase his book, especially as the proceeds were going to a great cause, an organisation that facilitates Australian and New Zealand doctors doing surgery in poor countries. It is called Interplast and its website is here;

http://www.interplast.org.au/

I'm wondering where the proceeds of Joe Hockey's book are going? I'm sure it is to a worthy cause but I can't find that information.

Dear butcher,

Could you please explain to me in logical terms how by putting troops on the ground in Ukraine or in Iraq means “Abbott is merely trying to do something about riding our nation of these grubs.”

Dear Foxy;

You wrote;

“As for our PM wanting to get us involved in another war? I think we should wait and see before making judgements on that issue.”

I respectfully disagree. The only viable proof will come in the form of Australia committing combat troops and by then it will be too late. We need to be sending a message to our politicians that we are against the loss of more Aussie service personnel's lives in the Middle East. I fully support resources being committed to humanitarian operations, that is what UN nations should be about, but armed hostilities are an entirely different matter.

Dear Bazz,

Enough crap my friend. You do realise that the Iranian parliament has Jewish and Christian representatives. In fact when the Iranian president went to the UN last year the Jewish member Siamak Moreh Sedgh was one of only two parliamentarians who accompanied him.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/19/hassan-rouhani-jewish-un

If this is true Abbott is a war monger just like George Bush. It seems Abbott lacks good judgement and that makes him a dangerous man.

Steele, hmmm, I wonder what the Jews in the Iranian government think of
Iran's policy of supporting Hezbollah and supplying rockets to Hamas ?

SteeleRedux, If I was not a pacifist, I could go along with what you say; <<choosing to go to war is an act that those in power need to give deep deliberation to before committing lives and resources.>>
I can not recall any war Australia has been involved in which followed "deep deliberation". If we were not dragged into wars by the imperialism of Britain, then it was a case of serving America's geopolitical interests.

Runner>> ''He seems to be a man looking for a war.'
you are sick Steele<<

Runner, Steele may have the flu but is spot on regarding this issue. Abbott is toeing the American Administration line and they want conflict with Russia.

I laughed and laughed when I heard Abbott telling us that Russia is a bully and he is not having that at his G20...or will it be G19? A ridiculous statement given America is the benchmark he uses for “bully free” diplomacy.”

There is still no empirical proof as to who shot the plane down over Ukraine.....technology has failed us as it did with the other (downed?) Malaysian Airline plane...no proof .

This exercise in provocation by America is about getting NATO bases in Ukraine and controlling the oil that flows from Russia across the Ukraine and into Europe.

What we can prove is the fact that Joe Bidens son Hunter, and a “friend” joined the board of a Ukraine energy company. Suddenly America is squabbling with Russia and Bidens son along with a Biden family friend end up on the board of a Ukraine energy company. Then David Leiter, a former Senate chief of staff to Secretary of State John Kerry, signed on to work as a lobbyist for that same company this May.

It was reported this week that the IQ of first world nations was decreasing.....I believe that.