He didn’t say anything too dramatic, it’s not like he thanked the nut-job or anything. A petition on change .org asking for his removal from parliament has almost 1 million... people have different levels of sensitivity. People are happy to sign that, but probably wouldn’t sign for our defence forces to be out of the middle east. During Iraq war 500,000 civilians were killed by US and allies bombs, I don’t know how many in Libya or Syria.
