Well "rookie" since you have only been here since May 2001 I will cut you some slack. Your argument that the Irish should throw up their arms and call themselves "terrorists" is hardly compelling...I suggest you read some of the 700 years of English occupation, murder, rape, pillage of Ireland and get back to me. Over a million Irish have died because of British terrorism so you have a lot of reading up to do. I have neither the desire nor the inclination to educate you on the history of Ireland. Once again you like those before you here have not refuted one fact.
I was posting on this board since 1998 as JEBeier, so I lost my rookie spots some time ago. I changed my handle to Gridlock in honor of the Jeffords defection.
With regards to your beef with the Brits, I agree that the Brits terrorized your population and used methods that are to be condemned. That does not mean that the IRA is not a bunch of terrorists. It just means that thay are fighting another group of terrorists. They should admit their own terrorist identity and then make the case that their terrorism is justified in light of their treatment by the British.
But I think people have pretty much gotten tired of bombs in baby carriages, so you may not have that much luck. Good.