IRA DESTROYS ITS WEAPONS

Sky News ^ | September 25, 2005

[Stoat]

Let's hope that these arms inspectors have been more effective than the ones used in Saddam's Iraq....

[buccaneer81]

HA! Yeah right. Just like the Russians have no nukes aimed at us.

[U S Army EOD]

Now the trick is, is to stop the UDL from going after them. The British troops were in Northern Ireland, not to surpress the Irish, but to stop the Irish from killing the Irish. I personally support the Orange but always felt the Green had the neatest songs even if most of them were about getting hung.

[kidd]

Short of house-to-house searches, how does one assure the effectiveness of the weapons destruction?

In any case, this is a BIG feather in the cap of my favorite liberal, Tony Blair.

[HiTech RedNeck]

:=The British troops were in Northern Ireland, not to surpress the Irish, but to stop the Irish from killing the Irish.

Hope they are more competent than the clowns who shot the non terrorist 'terrorist' a few weeks ago. Inspector Clouseau anybody.

[HiTech RedNeck]

If the shooting war ends, I guess we'll know

[ottograham]

What brought all this about? Well, for one thing, for years, Gerry Adams had been honored like a diplomatic hero by Clinton and Ted Kennedy every time he came to the US. George W Bush, however, treated him like the thug he is by ignoring him. Treated him just like that little Yasser guy with the scruffy beard from Palestine. Little things like that help.

[Stoat]

HA! Yeah right. Just like the Russians have no nukes aimed at us.

Yes, Sky News assumes that we all have very short memories.  Notice how no reporter's name is attached to this story?  Perhaps nobody wanted to be associated with it?

[CaptainKeyword]

the king is dead. long live the king.

[U S Army EOD]

Well the trick is, when the cops tell you to stop, you stop.

[Stoat]

Short of house-to-house searches, how does one assure the effectiveness of the weapons destruction?

You can't, and if there is a desire to continue the IRA activities "underground" there would of course still be that option, given the complete impossibility of a total disarmament as the article suggests.

In any case, this is a BIG feather in the cap of my favorite liberal, Tony Blair.

True, although if the IRA does continue with 'underground' violence then the feather may lose it's luster in short order.

[U S Army EOD]

Or perhaps the Irish Catholics siding with the French, Spanish, and Germans in almost every war fought to DESTROY England.

[garyhope]

Un hun, year right , sure, the check is in the mail, I really, really love you and I'll respect you in the morning.

[Stoat]

What brought all this about? Well, for one thing, for years, Gerry Adams had been honored like a diplomatic hero by Clinton and Ted Kennedy every time he came to the US. George W Bush, however, treated him like the thug he is by ignoring him. Treated him just like that little Yasser guy with the scruffy beard from Palestine. Little things like that help.

I believe that you're absolutely right, and of course our President will get absolutely zero credit for his diplomacy and policy shift in this matter.

[Stoat]

Un hun, year right , sure, the check is in the mail, I really, really love you and I'll respect you in the morning.

You may note from my posts that I am also pessimistic over this news

[Doctor Stochastic]

Didn't they do this a couple of times already?

[Stoat]

Didn't they do this a couple of times already?

I recall several failed "cease fires" over the years, but never before an announcement of a complete weapons destruction, as verified by 'international arms inspectors'.

Of course, time will tell how meaningful and significant this is.

 

[HiTech RedNeck]

well yup, nothing quite tranquilizes the hostile sentiment of the people like killing the innocent

[U S Army EOD]

Sometimes the innocent get killed because they are stupid, he fit the profile of a suicide bomber. If YOU had been one of those cops that were after him, and you wanted no other people killed around you, what would you have done?

[EGPWS]

The international inspectors overseeing...

My heart is filled with ease after these words.

No need to read any further.