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To: GregB

The IRA have more people on this island than anyone else (1800), their Loyalist counterparts come second (1200) - and the British security forces have only killed a couple dozen!!


15 posted on 04/04/2006 2:02:13 PM PDT by Irish_Thatcherite (~A vote for Bertie Ahern is a vote for Gerry Adams!~| IRA supporters on FR are trolls, end of story!)
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To: Irish_Thatcherite
The IRA have more people on this island than anyone else (1800), their Loyalist counterparts come second (1200) - and the British security forces have only killed a couple dozen!!

You’re kidding, right? Beginning in 1845 and lasting for six years, the potato famine alone – brought about by British occupation and confiscation of lands from native Irish -- killed over a million men, women and children in Ireland and caused another million to flee the country.

I am no supporter of the modern IRA. But the British have killed far more Irish with their occupation of Ireland than the Marxist thugs of the IRA have ever dreamed of doing.

91 posted on 04/04/2006 8:18:18 PM PDT by FatherofFive (Choose life!)
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