Absolute bollocks. Nah get out is because I'm bored of your repitition, you don't know your right, what were you Head of MI5? I had you down as some Guardsman fluffer!
Isn't extreme left - communism?
Big LOLS anyway, just because Lady Voldemort's kicked the bucket at long last does not mean the world is going to end Looney.
Blair, my mistake.
Nah, I'm done. My point was, the hunger strikes delayed a peace process / a Good Friday agreement by 10 years, you think the opposite and say I don't know the facts. I DON't say the PP was viable in 1981, but it could have been done much quicker than it was.
I'll acknowledge Major, but to say he deserves more credit than Bush is just cloud cuckoo land stuff. Yes, YEARS LOST X 1000, I think you are wrong - deal with it.
Not really, and don't presume to know what I was thinking. I've got every respect for our soldiers. It was not a whine, it was a valid point about years lost on the peace process by a Gov that would not listen. Fact is if the Blair Gov could do it, why could the Thatch Gov not do it. The IRA...
.....to avoid their deaths and help in the peace process (that could of, and should of happened many years before it eventually did).
I'm also not a capital punishment fan, civilised nations don't murder their own citizens.
They didn't need to die.
They were terrorists, they murdered innocents, they derserved to spend the rest of their lives in prison.
However, the deaths could have been avoided with a little flexibilty on some of the more innoucous demands.
The Hunger strikes put peace back in NI by at least a...
and the Hunger strikers, and the support of the Chilean regime that tortured and murdered thousands, and her support of reacist South Africa etc etc etc