You wrote:
“This is just sickening. I am having to ‘prove’ the IRA killed women and children?.”
What is sickening is how you repeatedly lie about what has been said. I asked you to show that women and children were deliberately targeted in a bombing. I already even said that such a bombing may have taken place but that I can’t think of it. Can you think of one or not.
“Anyone with even a passing knowledge of the IRA knows they did!.”
Alright, then name the bombing and the date it happened in which the IRA deliberately targeted women and children. Can you do it or not?
“Perhaps you would do well to read the history, perhaps starting with the links I provided.”
I have read the history. Now, can you name the bombing and the date it happened in which the IRA deliberately targeted women and children? If you know so much about “the history” and your assertions (and at this point that’s all they are) are true then you should be able to name that bombing.
“OK, what about Bloody Friday, Omagh, Enniskillen, Le Mon, Claudy, The Shankhill Furniture bomb...And that just in NI.”
Which one of those DELIBERATELY targeted women and children as the primary victims as opposed to being “collateral damage” and please present evidence that shows it was DELIBERATE. Can you do that or not? Remember, I am not even denying it happened. I am just pushing you to actually prove your assertions. Can you do it or not?
“Add to that the women and children murdered by the IRA on mainland Britain: Harrods,
Hyde Park, Regents Park, the Brighton bombing, Warrington....”
Well, as I expected, you are floundering. Take Harrods, for instance. Six people were killed. Three were police officers. Two killed were women - one of whom was a cop. That makes it unlikely on the face of it that women and children were the DELIBERATE targets. Also, the IRA said the bombing was not authorized. Now, I know you’ll whine about the fact that I have said all that. You’ll fret and carp like a soccer player who wants the ref to believe his better deserves a red card. Fine. Just man up and prove your assertions. I’m not asking for much.
“I tell you you ‘know little’ because your knowledge and your posts are astonishingly ignorant of the terrorism in NI.”
No, actually they’re not. So far I clearly know more than you do. Now, can you answer my question or will you continue to flounder? Remember, I freely admit you might be right that there has been such a bombing, perhaps several, but which ones? Unless you can prove your assertions, I will have to believe that Islamists are far worse than the IRA.
What is your obsession with ‘deliberately targeting’ women and children as opposed to murdering and maiming women and children along with everyone else?.
What is your point?. What twisted moral point are you trying to make?.
Dear Vladimir,
I am Scottish. I have grown up with the IRA. I have had a family member murdered by them. I have Irish relatives, both Catholic and Protestant, by blood and marriage, in both Irelands.
And I am history graduate with an honours degree from Glasgow University, and have studied Irish history since I was 10. Thats 30 years ago.
I KNOW my Irish history, from ancient times to modern day. Backwards and forwards.
So dont think for a second that you know more than me.
“What is sickening is how you repeatedly lie about what has been said. I asked you to show that women and children were deliberately targeted in a bombing. I already even said that such a bombing may have taken place but that I can’t think of it. Can you think of one or not.”
The Omagh bomb in 1998 was in a car outside a shop that specialised in childrens school clothes, at the time of year parents take their children to buy school clothes at the start of the school year.
http://www.wesleyjohnston.com/users/ireland/past/omagh/before.html
Of course, you think thats just an unfortunate mistake and it was done by the RIRA not the PIRA so its even more easy to maintain the misty eyed love of the brave freedom fighters.