In a sight that is sadly becoming increasingly common the bodies of two more Diggers arrived back on Australian soil last week. Both young men, both married, both daddies and one expecting his second child in a matter of just weeks. Two more widows, several more children left fatherless, another generation of Australian children growing up without the dads who were killed fighting wars in foreign countries. This is where I get steamed up about asylum  seekers queuing up to break into Australia; the natives of countries like Iraq and Afghanistan are making a beeline for our shores and expect to be let in while our own men are over there fighting their wars on their soil for them. Why are we bothering to create some democracy for these people when they cannot be bothered to stick around in their own country and work on it…?

I say send them back and bring our men home!

It’s a pointless war and these latest deaths are avoidable in that Australia does not need to be there. We don’t owe Afghanistan anything, neither do the Swiss – who remain detached from all foreign conflicts – neither do the Irish, French, the Spanish – all nations who use oil as much as we do and yet are not prepared to see their young men and women killed fighting a lot of savages in a country that is still medieval in most of it’s customs and attitudes. Let Australian’s have the debate they were promised and then end our involvement in this sickening evil carnage. The men who started all this – Bush, Blair and Brown – are all living in happy affluent retirement while young men are still being killed eight years later – we should not tolerate this any longer.