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Iraq war anniversary: Bush hails 'victory'
BillieTheBot
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7305023.stm
He's having a laugh, right?
Bush and Comical Ali. Separated at birth?
He's having a laugh, right?
Bush and Comical Ali. Separated at birth?
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I reckon Comical Ali likes teh kittehs more than Bush!
As for winning the broader war on terror, say that to the victims of the London bombings.
Yeh but Bush doesn't give a fuck about them, as long as the soil of the good ole U S of A isn't attacked then everything is fine!
Why would they want to do that? Surely that would only harm the chances of the Republicans staying in power after he's gone.
The only difference between Al-Qaeda and the IRA is the IRA didn't intentionally set out to kill people, and they didn't kill themselves in the process.
Britain has always been a target for terrorists, just most of us haven't been alive long enough to realise.
The Iraq war, imo has made more people WANT to hurt us, but it hasn't changed the liklihood.
The British Government won nothing during the 70's and 80's in the fight against terrorism here.
You're joking right? Sure they may have warned security forces about some bombs but they certainly intended to kill. Maybe you mean they didn't set out to kill civillians? That's also wrong in many cases. It was a dirty war here, thank fuck it's over.
You need to take that bag off your head ocasionaly ...get some air.
I think we can all agree the IRA certainly had the capability to do far more damage than they ever really did. It doesn't take a genius to plan a credible attack that could kill hundreds of people.
The difference between the IRA and Al-Qaeda is that the IRA never set out to kill hundreds of people en-masse.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingsmill_massacre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Mon_restaurant_bombing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrods_bombing
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/8/newsid_2515000/2515113.stm
The people who supported the police and soldiers were normal civilians
I can't see the difference - Al-qaeda are murdering bastards, the IRA are murdering bastards, (and for the record the UVF/UFF/INLA are also murdering bastards as well)
That's my hometown, Enniskillen. I was 2 years old and was at that remembrance ceremony with my mother. She wheeled me away from the ceremony before the bomb to a nearby park, because I was crying too much.
Surprisingly, despite incidents like that, Enniskillen was one of the least sectarianly divided places in Northern Ireland when I grew up.
My aunt went to school with one of the victims.
Out of them all it still strikes me as the worst atrocity by any of the players - I can remember we'd all just come back from the chruch service (it's one of the two times the year my Dad would go) and I switched on radio 1 and there it was on the news. I just went downstairs and all anyone could get out of me for the next few minutes was 'The bastards, the bastards'
Had this also been the aim of IRA, the Loyalist Groups, ETA and many other such groups in Europe, they could have done so easily. A couple of car bombs outside a football ground just after a game's finished could easily kill hundreds and would have been as easy to execute as buying a pint of milk (for those terrorist groups).
But that doesn't make them any less odious of course. The only reason they did not go for such things is because they considered it counter-productive to their aims and feared it would turn opinion against them (ETA found this out to their cost when they decided to cause maximum carnage against civilians and planted a napalm bomb in a supermarket car park and exploded it without warning, killing 22 and causing horrific burns on many more. The repulse was such, even amongst ETA supporters, that the tactic was immediately abandoned).
Given that all these terrorist groups despise the civilians, see them as 'the enemy' and quite happily kill them when they can, if they thought they would gain more than lose by doing Madrid-style massacres, they certainly would- no doubt about that.
In fact I find their terrorism more disturbing in some ways than the likes of Al Qaida. They certainly created far more anguish and suffering for continuous periods of time than religious extremist terrorism does.
No. Their intention was not to kill as many people as possible. Otherwise they would have detonated the bomb without warning. I'm sure they wished to kill as many as possible in their hearts, because they're scum, but chose not to purely for tactical reasons.
Personally I think Kingsmill or Omagh was worse.
The tactical reason being job creation maybe ...cos if you went into the city to watch it being rebuilt every sign was for a big Irish construction company!
Yeh but they didn't intentionally go out to kill themselves, the most notable IRA man to die in a bombing is probably Thomas Begley who died in the Shankill Road bombing.
It's always going to be a personal thing - I know people who reckon the lynching of the corporals was the low and my second platoon sergeant reckoned it was Bloody Sunday (cos, sir them paras were wee cunts and they was a fuckin disgrace to the whole fuckin army)