[Byron_the_Aussie]

..should Cromwell have been offed much sooner than he was? Absolutely, for being in the same class of mass murderer as Saddam Hussein, Hitler, Stalin, and Pol Pot...

Cromwell wasn't 'offed.' Cromwell wasn't a 'mass murderer.' I'm guessing you were born too late for No Child Left Behind?

[sodpoodle]

Thank you;)

It does help to read the article in full - and to remember that for 400 years, history has been written by Royalists and the Vatican.

Irish Catholics were given Cromwell as a boogy-man while the Monarchs and Popes continued to control and oppress (taxes & tythes).