Gary Sauer-Thompson: “I can love
Gary Sauer-Thompson: “I can love my country (the landscape, the institutions and the people) and still oppose the war on Iraq. I will support the troops and hope they come home safe and sound, but I will not rally around the flag used to justify a war on Iraq. Mine is a tough love.”

I never saw anyone trying to justify the war on Iraq by using the Australian flag.
Metaphor, surely?