The complexities and difficulties of what is involved, yet boiled down to a brutal, single point. The sort of situation and person who could just as easily end up in a boat on the way to Australia in two years time and who we will be told is a queue jumping stealing the places of real refugees - just the same as the many who fled Iraq were in 1999, 2000, 2001.

Of course, the refugee problem in/around Iraq is far worse now than it ever was back then, when Mr Ruddock warned that “whole villages” were packing up with a plan to come to Australia.

Many Americans are journeying there at the present moment.

And they seem to enjoy shooting messengers.

I venture to propose that now be an opportune time to recreate that much lamented “Good News From Iraq” electronic flyer. I am sure there is so much new and good to report from the cradle of civilisation.

For example schools are being repainted and the flypaper theory is is now finally working.

Happy happy joy joy!

Oh so yes, never dismiss any bearer of bad news for the course you epouse. Any day now you may hear good news. Any day now.

Don’t shoot the messenger

A Baghdad dentist can now easily distingush between outgoing, incoming and IEDs by sound alone while a particular bunch of feral Ay-rabs are likely gonna kill all themselves and save us the bother.

Yee and hah!

Yet again, the poor old Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.

…and no one ever misses the opportunity to trot out that cliche whenever the issue comes up. Give it a rest fellas, ’tis a tired old mule.

Of course, the Palestinians provided Saddam with much propaganda fodder in his bid to triumph as the modern day Saladin. Arafat foolishly threw his hat in with Saddam during Gulf War 1. 1000s of Palestinians were slaughtered by the Kuwaitis.

In the current Iraq horror-disaster, Iraq’s Sunnis AND Shia have been exacting their revenge on the Palestinians. Recently, Australia and Canada accepted a couple of hundred of Palestinian Iraqi (geez, these people must have identity issues!!).

And blow me down the Palestinian “Foreign Minister” accused Australia of “racism” and “attempted genocide” as all Palestinian refugees must be admitted to “Palestine.” (which of course does not exist and therefore is not a signatory to the Refugee Conventions being used here).

His only concern? That if these selected refugees come to Australia their “right of return” will be jeopordized (never mind that no such “right” has ever existed anyway.

Yet again, the poor old Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.

(Pity they can’t send the relocation bill to Messrs Chimpco, Bliar and HoWARd.)