The X Factor Australia judges (Ronan Keating, Natalie Bassingthwaighte, Guy Sebastian, Melanie Brown (Scary Spice)) were searching for tissues after watching Emmanuel Kelly sing Lennon's Imagine. Having lost his extremities likely in Iraqi chemical warfare against Halabja Kurds in 1988, he was adopted as an infant by Australian family in Melbourne, who arranged for surgical treatment on adoption. The performance seems a bit surreal if one bundles war atrocities with entertainment TV. Of course, the reality is complicated by the apparent domestic victimization of the Kurds at the hands of Saddam Hussein.
