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Originally posted by: Warbler
maybe because the IRA didn't fly Airplanes into buildings and kill over 3000 people
Ok.......as a Brit I find that extremely offensive. Perhaps before posting such a comment you should have read up a little about the IRA's mainland (meaning ENGLAND) terror campaign. Over a period of years the IRA detonated several explosive devices in PUBLIC AREA's (Manchester SHOPPING CENTRE & London's Canary Wharf to name but 2), not to mention the number of Northern Irish citizens that were killed in bomb blasts & British Soldiers that were shot/blown up whilst on a tour of duty in Northern Ireland.
Now that number may not add up to 3,000 people, it might, I haven't ever bothered to work it out, but my point is......2 innocent people killed in a terrorist attack is surely as evil and sick as 3,000 innocent people being killed? It is not the number of people that are killed that matters, but the attack on personal freedom that counts.
btw..i do find it extremely upsetting that the War (farce) On Terrorism hasn't targetted groups such as the IRA...now why is that I wonder???? Would it have anything to do with the US governments prior support & funding of the IRA?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????