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March 13th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda The Australian Greens have repeated their call for the federal government to bring Australian troops home after a rogue US soldier killed 16 Afghan civilians.
The US soldier massacred 16 sleeping villagers, most of them women and children, in southern Afghanistan on Sunday.
Australian Greens MP Adam Bandt said foreign occupation was destabilising the country.
He said more tragic incidents like the killing spree may take place if foreign troops don’t leave the country soon.
“There are now kids and teenagers who have grown up with an almost permanent presence of occupying forces in their country,” Mr Bandt told reporters on Tuesday.
“Increasingly, they see us as the enemy and what’s happened over recent days is only going to exacerbate that.”
Mr Bandt wants the government to set a date for the return of Australian troops.
Prime Minister Julia Gillard on Tuesday told caucus the shooting was “distressing” and more effort would be needed to explain to Australians why the Afghanistan mission remained important.
Earlier, incoming foreign minister Bob Carr rejected the call to withdraw.
“I would caution against such dangerously simplistic thinking,” he told reporters.
Senator Carr, who took his seat in the upper house on Tuesday, said he was “shattered” by the incident.
“The tragic thing is that it worsens the drift towards what some people describe as a clash of civilisations,” he told reporters.
“That is something we’ve got to redouble our efforts to guard against, the notion that there will be increased tension between the different faiths and the different ethnicity.”
There was a danger of the same drift happening in Australia as well.
“I would hope all Australians would redouble their efforts in their own communities to see that co-operation between faiths and that understanding of faiths is enhanced,” Senator Carr said.
“It’s a sad, tragic thing if a burning of a Koran and the act of an individual soldier, a maverick like this, can see those tensions worsen.”
On Monday, Ms Gillard labelled the killings “appalling” but promised her government would keep its nerve.
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