[Shasown]

Originally Posted by WOMBAI

Illinformed - maybe - but Northern Ireland was a pretty dangerous place to be for British soldiers a few years ago. Plenty of soldiers died there - maybe not as many as in a war zone, I don't know, but too many nevertheless!

Yes too many needless deaths, too many injuries, a lot of hurt for everyone involved with or living in the Six Counties.

And if you want to know the truth, it was all British Politicians fault, lots and lots of bad mistakes maybe done with good intent but bad mistakes none the less.

Lots of brave men on both sides lost their lives to get to where we are today because of the political setup.

[spitfire]

Originally Posted by Shasown

And if you want to know the truth, it was all British Politicians fault, lots and lots of bad mistakes maybe done with good intent but bad mistakes none the less.

Of course it was the big bad Brits that murdered children in Warrington.

Originally Posted by Shasown

Lots of brave men on both sides lost their lives to get to where we are today because of the political setup.

People who plant bombs in civilian areas are not brave men,quite the opposite.
And where are we today?No change,all those deaths and N.Ireland is still part of the UK,quite rightly.
Adams and co hands are dripping with blood.

[Shasown]

Originally Posted by spitfire

Of course it was the big bad Brits that murdered children in Warrington.


People who plant bombs in civilian areas are not brave men,quite the opposite.
And where are we today?No change,all those deaths and N.Ireland is still part of the UK,quite rightly.
Adams and co hands are dripping with blood.

Yeah valid points, however British Forces were actually deployed to protect the Catholic communiites and the civil rights movement (mostly Catholic in origin) in 1969, yet in a few short months they had gone from being universally welcomed to being despised by the Catholic Community.

That's before the major clusterfuck that was Bloody Sunday, 1972, which did more to boost the IRA and Nationalist support than any other action carried out in the province.

Plus you then have internment, which was supposed to have been used for all terrorist suspects, the initial round up was mainly Nationalists, and a few of the more vocal civil rights organisers, yet loyalist terror organisations were in fact more active at the time than the IRA.

As for the bombings on the UK mainland, that was a tactic of desperation. It caused major splits within the IRA. And in fact by that time elements of the British Armed Forces had carried out what would be classed as black operations both in the North of Ireland and also in Eire.