[Colosis]

Yea, I'm definitely getting a bit jaded listening to the same old mantra. Good fun though listening to someone who really believes that democracy is so strong that it cannot be sub-vented by terrorists. Best to walk off leave well alone. To sum up Vlads talking points in his last post to me:

1) The RA have nothing to do with AQ (why is Vlad at such pains to point this out?)

2) Libya's guns and semtex to murder those who opposed their murderous regime happened in the 70s and 80s - history, get over it man, stop living in the past!

3) It's all the Brits fault anyway

4) This is the 21st century.

5) Every thing about the IRA we mention are fantasies

The problem I see here with some on this thread is that if you loath the shinners, as I do, then you are somehow in tow of the loyalist terrorists on the other side. To me, there's no difference between the shankill bucthers and sinn fein. Their very essence is violence and terror - period.

[Irish_Thatcherite]

Yea, I'm definitely getting a bit jaded listening to the same old mantra. Good fun though listening to someone who really believes that democracy is so strong that it cannot be sub-vented by terrorists.

Yes, especially with our country going through one of it's sleep-walking phases!!

1) The RA have nothing to do with AQ (why is Vlad at such pains to point this out?)

I guess he doesn't wish for the IRA to be added to Dubya's 'list'.

To me, there's no difference between the shankill bucthers and sinn fein. Their very essence is violence and terror - period.

Yes, and the only reason we make a bigger deal of the IRA at the moment is because of the magnitude of the threat they pose - if it was the Loyalists tomorrow, we would concentrate on them.