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Old 09-21-2001, 07:10 PM   #1
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I just having a conversation with my sister and this came up.

Why is it now that America and it alies are 'going to war' to stop terrorists when groups like the real IRA and the Loyalists have been killing people for nearly 30 years, will they all move in the root out and destory these groups once the finished bombing Asganstan(?)and then what about the extremmist animal rights groups, will the be hunted down? Why have they all stood idaly by when Iseal commintes acts verging on geoside on Plastine or when hundreds of people are muilated and killed every day in Afica?
Why has it took an direct act agaisnt them to bring them to action?

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Old 09-21-2001, 07:13 PM   #2
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probably because those old world war 2 blinders are still on us. also i guess the government just thought these were common events in the mid east and places like that. actually i think we should have started this years ago when he bombed the embassys, but even then we just sat on our hands. i just say at least we're taking action now before others die!

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Old 09-21-2001, 07:16 PM   #3
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Originally posted by Gabriel:
I just having a conversation with my sister and this came up.

Why is it now that America and it alies are 'going to war' to stop terrorists when groups like the real IRA and the Loyalists have been killing people for nearly 30 years, will they all move in the root out and destory these groups once the finished bombing Asganstan(?)and then what about the extremmist animal rights groups, will the be hunted down? Why have they all stood idaly by when Iseal commintes acts verging on geoside on Plastine or when hundreds of people are muilated and killed every day in Afica?
Why has it took an direct act agaisnt them to bring them to action?

We can't protect the whole world from each other. Our own safety must be a high priority and, obviously, we've been harboring a false sense of security that has now been broken forever.



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Old 09-21-2001, 07:20 PM   #4
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Besides, don't forget it was proved America funded the IRA
 
Old 09-21-2001, 07:32 PM   #5
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Why should it be America's responsibility to look after every other country? And would Ireland etc really appreciate America coming in and interfering and taking sides?

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Old 09-21-2001, 07:41 PM   #6
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Originally posted by Gabriel:
I just having a conversation with my sister and this came up.

Why is it now that America and it alies are 'going to war' to stop terrorists when groups like the real IRA and the Loyalists have been killing people for nearly 30 years, will they all move in the root out and destory these groups once the finished bombing Asganstan(?)and then what about the extremmist animal rights groups, will the be hunted down? Why have they all stood idaly by when Iseal commintes acts verging on geoside on Plastine or when hundreds of people are muilated and killed every day in Afica?
Why has it took an direct act agaisnt them to bring them to action?

Unfortunately, we stick our noses into more countries business
than we need to from the start. If we weren't such the "Police"
of the world, then the terrorists that attacked us, would have
no doubt attacked someone else. The fact that we are always
taking sides or pushing democracy onto everyone else is one of
the main reasons other countries despise us.
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Old 09-21-2001, 08:22 PM   #7
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and then what about the extremmist animal rights groups, will the be hunted down?
I certainly hope so.

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Old 09-21-2001, 08:31 PM   #8
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Why should it be America's responsibility to look after every other country? And would Ireland etc really appreciate America coming in and interfering and taking sides?

Er, it has been doing for quite some time, in the form of various individuals and groups, at any rate. There's a lot of IRA funding comes from America.

Funding terrorism is taking sides, if you ask me! Radio interview today with some US bod who gives loads of money to the the families of IRA members who're in jail for the usual murder etc. Its been going on for decades. (In Britain too. I lived under the shadow of terrorism for years in London. Bombs exploded, people died, people were mutilated... There are no waste paper bins in underground stations, or in railway stations. That's why not. (Great places for bombs.) We were all so thankful when the peace process started. (Although not as thankful as the Irish!)



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Old 09-21-2001, 08:34 PM   #9
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Funding terrorism is taking sides, if you ask me! Radio interview today with some US bod who gives loads of money to the the families of IRA members who're in jail for the usual murder etc. Its been going on for decades. (In Britain too. I lived under the shadow of terrorism for years in London. Bombs exploded, people died, people were mutilated... There are no waste paper bins in underground stations, or in railway stations. That's why not. (Great places for bombs.) We were all so thankful when the peace process started. (Although not as thankful as the Irish!)
You're in same boat as me - the buggers blew up my Dad's train (Charing Cross one a few years back - fortunately that was the ONE time in his life he MISSED the damn thing getting to work



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Old 09-21-2001, 08:40 PM   #10
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In a tv interview with Jeremy Paxman today, Colin Powell said that 'we' (the democratic world) were going to fight ALL terrorists no matter who and where, and that it would take years, and that we would never fully succeed.
I'll believe that when it happens, even though Powell seemed sincere.

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