BALI BOMBING ROOT CAUSE REVEALED

The other day Tony Kevin had a loony lefty rave about the sinister missile carrying helicopters supposedly menacing Canberra. Commenters showed Kevin to be, well, a raving loony lefty.

Undeterred, Kevin has now followed up with a post in which he argues Australia's Defence Forces are lickspittles who will do absolutely anything to please the Prime Minister. In attempting to make his case he disguises an allegation as a question:

Thus, to give a simple but telling current example , we are now mourning a new round of deaths of innocent Australians and Balinese Indonesians at the hands of what were most probably JI terrorists, and the consequent likely destruction of the livelihoods and hopes of the beautiful and vulnerable people of Bali, without anyone daring to ask the obvious question in public - whether this renewed terrorism might not have something to do with Australia's continuing enthusiastic participation over the past four years in the efficient US killing machine's operations against Muslim populations in Iraq and Afghanistan. Keelty will not ask it. O'Sullivan will not ask it. Varghese will not ask it. Shergold will not ask it. Most of our mainstream media will not ask it. We have all been persuaded or coerced to believe Howard's nonsense, that these terrorists "hate us because of our values", or that they are trying to harm Australian-Indonesian relations or to bring down the Indonesian government, when the truth is that they hate us because of what our military forces are doing to people in Muslim countries.

If the primary goal of the latest Bali bombing was killing Australians these JI guys are pretty damned careless about collateral damage – 14 of those killed were Indonesian.

Anyway, someone at Web Diary was bound to connect the bombings to John Howard eventually. Oh yeah, Kevin manages to work Hitler and the Wehrmacht into his latest rave. Surprise, surprise.