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2005-03-10 Britain

IRA should dissolve, White House declares

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Posted by Bulldog 2005-03-10 3:42:06 AM|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Melike. I've been waiting for 35 years as a voter for a President to come along who calls a spade a spade. Finally, we have one. Bush just doesn't dick around like all of his predecessors. Terrorism is not an acceptable course of action - period. Yo, IRA -- time for you lot to bugger off - and for anyone here caught funding you to be dropped in the nearest shithole for 30 years.

Posted by .com 2005-03-10 4:38:40 AM|| 2005-03-10 4:38:40 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Good on GWB. Been waiting a long time for an American president to say this. Notably Gerry Adams will be absent from the White House's St Patrick's Day celebrations this year. The IRA are beginning to make Belfast look like the NW Frontier.

Posted by Howard UK 2005-03-10 5:11:47 AM|| 2005-03-10 5:11:47 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 You are with us or against us in the war on terror. Only the ignorant still buy that one mans terrorist is anopther mans freedom fighter. Those that target civilinas are terrorists. The only good terrorists are dead ones. The days of sending money back to the "old country" for armed struggle are over. Anyone who can't get this through their head can write me from pound me in the ass prison if they live to get there.

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2005-03-10 6:48:29 AM|| [http://www.slhess.com] 2005-03-10 6:48:29 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Its a start .... but somehow i feel the IRA has lost control of its powerbase and 'all'n'sundry' are having a go at filling the vacuum.

On a side note . black caps still get passed around pubs in England ..

Posted by MacNails 2005-03-10 7:12:08 AM|| 2005-03-10 7:12:08 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 GWB has to be the greatest president we've had in my lifetime. Honesty and common sense - how refreshing!

Posted by Sheik Abu Bin Ali Al-Yahood 2005-03-10 7:32:40 AM|| 2005-03-10 7:32:40 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 It's all show biz till he shuts down Noraid and arrests some of the fundraisers under the Patriot Act.

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2005-03-10 7:33:10 AM|| 2005-03-10 7:33:10 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 It's not as if Bush can depend on the boys in Boston to support him anyway. Should have done this on Sept 12 (after all the IRA was training in Libya during the 80s and helping out Colombia baddies in the 90s, that's global reach).

Still, better late than never.

Posted by rjschwarz 2005-03-10 9:48:45 AM|| [http://rjschwarz.com] 2005-03-10 9:48:45 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 What do the black caps mean, MacNails?

Posted by Seafarious 2005-03-10 10:40:39 AM|| 2005-03-10 10:40:39 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 A hat/beret (usually black) passed round a pub for donation to IRA ... obviously only happens in a very small minority of pubs , but it happens .

Posted by MacNails 2005-03-10 10:49:19 AM|| 2005-03-10 10:49:19 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 A friend and I were in a Belfast pub in 1992, when a guy comes over and asks if we want to enter a raffle for two round trip tickets, only 5 pound. I asked him what's the destination for the tickets. He said, "I don't know. Maybe Kosovo or someplace like that."

Pub crawling in Belfast, with those armoured trucks driving about, with chains on their sides to stop Molotov cocktails and a machine gunner on the top. Like a scene from Blade Runner.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2005-03-10 11:15:52 AM|| 2005-03-10 11:15:52 AM|| Front Page Top

#11 aye , its what i call an 'entertaining enviroment' AP :p

Posted by MacNails 2005-03-10 11:49:54 AM|| 2005-03-10 11:49:54 AM|| Front Page Top

#12 On a side note . black caps still get passed around pubs in England ..

Wonder if the practice is still done in the D.C. area?

Posted by Pappy 2005-03-10 1:32:43 PM|| 2005-03-10 1:32:43 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 So...this means Bush welcomed Sinn Fein for four years while he was president?

Posted by gromky 2005-03-10 2:55:50 PM|| 2005-03-10 2:55:50 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 Grom, I think it has been SOP since the Peace Processor started whiring awhile back.

Posted by Shipman 2005-03-10 4:25:05 PM|| 2005-03-10 4:25:05 PM|| Front Page Top

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