Durham Giant wrote:If only the bog trotters had some nice new shiny, precision targeted tomohawk missiles. With a good PR machine they could even have avoided all this guff about innocent civillians and just talked aboput collateral damage.
Thank God England is so civilised.
England
is, in general, pretty civilised, as is Ireland.
McGuinness isn't.
I don't blame the average Irishman for bombing England because I reckon most of them weren't in favour of killing and, by the same token, I don't blame the average Englishman (like, say, you or me) for bombing Iraq.
As for collateral damage, I do recall the IRA saying that the deaths of the children in Warrington were a regrettable cost of war (same weasel excuse as collateral damage) ... which was cynical bollox, who the hell did they expect to kill with a bomb outside a town centre McDonalds on a Saturday?
I am the son of a Scottish protestant merchant seaman who managed to get himself koshed and slung in an Italian prison for shouting 'fook the pope' in Rome's Venezia square....I suppose him drowning at sea when I was 5 saved me from some fervent religious indoctrination during my formative years!
