[Livia]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

The IRA were a terrorist group, the British Army were not therefore do you not think they should be held to a higher standard of behaviour? It's like saying that police shouldn't have to face charges for a crime because criminals exist. Odd logic.

That analogy really doesn't work.

The British army was acting under orders. The people who gave those orders should be up there, not the squaddies.

The odd logic is that, the Army needs to be prosecuted and the terrorists don't.