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Clive
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Exactly. At the time the US bombed Libya, I suggested that with the same justification, the UK would be entitled to bomb NORAID head quarters in New York.
PS I have noticed many Americans complaining about the questioners generalisation, protesting that many in the US did not support the IRA. Let me remind them that the US recently destroyed Iraq on their president's personal whim irrespective of the political views of the Iraqi people. |
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keypointist
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They thought that the IRA blowing up innocent civilians was part of a romantic struggle against imperialism and then a couple of planes hit the twin towers and suddenly they realised what terrorism really meant on the ground!!
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HELEN below is totally wrong. She illustrates why so much American money went accross the sea to fund the IRA....it is down to the bigotry and ignorance of people like her. I'd like her to explain the IRA Omagh bomb for example which killed dozens of civilians including many children and exploded without warning. Then after that she could try justifying the Warrington bomb, The Birmingham pub bombing, the Manchester bombing, the Remebrance day bombing etc etc etc etc. |
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Not Ecky Boy
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They certainly DID subsidise the murdering IRA scum, via Noraid so lets settle that one.
9/11 changed everything, they did not like being on the receiving end of terrorism any more than we did.
Incidentally 9/11 also meant the end of the IRA murder tactics, because terrorism was no longer fashionable. |
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STEVE T
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Cause one mans terrorist is another mans Freedom Fighter...Dont get me wrong i hated the IRA..but thats the answer |
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PC Hater
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Because they were uneducated American Irish people. The very same people who were so shocked when New York got hit. They are whats called HYPOCRITES I think! |
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Steve T hit the nail on the head.
The IRA were promoted as Freedom Fighters, supporting the Irish people against the imperialist English. The fact that they bombed innocent men, women and children was besides the point.
*Some* Americans were (and still are) Hypocrites. 11/9 brought a lot of them to their senses, but you could still find a whole shedload of people who would deplore iraqii's killing american troops, but be happy to contribute to the "real IRA" to buy semtex.
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During the heyday of the Irish Republican Army, Representative Peter King (R-NY) was a vocal supporter of it here in the US:
The politician once called the IRA "the legitimate voice of occupied Ireland,"
{edit} - TO HELEN - I dont usually edit so long after a question was answered, but this statement is just idiotic
"For your information the Irish Republican Army never attempted to kill innocent people" MORONIC RUBBISH - UTTER, UTTER CR4P and OBVIOUSLY PROVEN WRONG MANY MANY TIMES, YOU GULLIBLE, BRAINWASHED IDIOT |
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Lionel M
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dont generalized the word americans,there might be some sigments of our society who support the IRA but not all americans,your question is way out of line,what you hear came from an uneducated mouth, |
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I don't recall EVER supporting the IRA.
I think you need to look at that, again. |
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Jomtien C
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Americans financed IRA, but they also financed Saddam against Iran and also helped Al Quida when they were fighting the Russians. |
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Shunter
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To be fair to Americans as a hole, it was mainly only the dozy Irish / Americans who live in and around Boston (Mass) that were guilty. If they cared so much for the 'Mother country', why didn;t they f**k off back there to help out.
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Because they're a buch of w*****s. They had a nice life-style, decent wages / salary, good jobs. Go back to Ireland? Run the risk of being killed? Let the indigenous thick paddy's do all that. I'll just pretend I'm Irish because my name begins with O', or Mac / Mc.
All of a suddend, terrorism stricks at thier front door and they don't like it. We put up it for years, funded by hundreds of those scum living in Ameica. Now live with it. See if they like it. |
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TECHX69
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I did? When did I do that? |
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mellouckili
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Because they are Irish American as someone else said on your site and who have nothing better to do than to support terrorists. There are a lot of so called Irish Americans who have English or Scottish surnames, so a lot of Americans are confused about there ancestry in any way. I found it a laugh when I met an American who told me that he had half Irish and half German ancestry, he told me that his Irish surnames were Brady and Fleming. I said I think you should stop celebrating St Patrick's and start celebrating St Andrews. |
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sammie
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they held a romantic image about the ira and funded the ira even mcdonalds did .. totally shocking |
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Social Science Lady
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Because the IRA were not blowing up Americans, they were blowing up British soldiers and people. It is ironic how quickly some people can jump over fences. |
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Sctcndn
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as much as I don't like the English because I'm Scottish and as much as I don't agree with the Americans because I live in Canada, I don't think that the U.S. supported the IRA, they just had their blinders on all these years... If it didn't happen in the U.S. they didn't see it... 9/11 was a wake up call to Americans & Canadians, they finally relized that they were nolonger safe from terror because we are sepperated by two ociens from the rest of the world... so when the Americans finally opened their eyes what happened to the IRA? Just my thoughts you can argree or not I don't care :-) |
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Leogirl0804
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America did NOT support the IRA. There were however donations from private sources. There is a big difference. |
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Judge Dredd
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Most Americans really could care less about the IRA and their plight. Many Americans did view them as a terrorist organization. And the very few that may have supported the IRA certainly don't represent the majority of Americans. |
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Philip L
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Only a very small group of "Americans" from the Irish emigre' communities in Boston and New York supported the IRA. Being that the protestant majority America has always been hostile to Roman Catholicism I doubt seriously the IRA outside of Boston and New York found any sympathy however good or bad their cause. |
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The Dictator
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Cos they were given incorrect information about the problems in N.I. by terrorist sympathizers who wanted-yes, you've guessed it- MONEY!It is another matter,however,how much of this money made it out of the collectors' pockets and into the IRA coffers. |
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robert m
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This is more anti religious in nature. The Ulster side was just as bad. Lets be fair about it. A terrorist is a terorist. Now who is taking sides?
As a matter of fact after the IRA laid it's arms down the other side is still trying to instigate. |
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sbwelsh
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Don't assume all Americans have a single mind! You are generalizing and that is not intelligent. There are millions of Americans of Irish heritage both Catholic and Protestant who have individual opinions on this matter. |
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Bryan
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Your position is not based in reality. There was not widespread support of the IRA in the United States. The United States government did not condone or fund their actions. There were indeed small pockets of private support within the Irish-American communities and some did provide private funding. Much the same as there are now pockets of Muslim-American support for the actions of Islamic terrorists. A terrorist is a terrorist and you will not find large scale support in the United States for the indiscriminate killing of innocents no matter who the culprit is. To say otherwise is a blanket attempt to indict all for the actions of a few and is devoid of any factual evidence to support such a broad claim. |
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sunnybums
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I am lead to beleave that there was some sort of misunderstanding in Britain, when people in the USA were supporting NORAID to us brits thats a fund for the IRA when infact in the US noraid is some sort of pention scheme, Im in the UK, so could someone from the states confirm what i have said ? |
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America per se ,did not support the IRA.
However,millions of irish descendants did show some support in various forms ,the most notable supplying funds.
I would say that statistically speaking ,irish americans are the least well educated of white americans and are therefore the most likely to make uninformed judgement.
On that basis , i would not generalise, and say that all americans supported IRA terrorist activity. |
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bubbles
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On what facts do you base this? Why did some of the american presidents suppoprt and provide arms for various leaders in the middle east? The americans never supported the IRA. They visited Ireland a couple of times but they never actively encouraged what the IRA did.
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WATCH THE WIND THAT SHAKES THE BARLEY. THAT WILL GIVE YOU A GOOD IDEA AS TO WHAT HAPPENED |
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Sassy
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America NEVER supported the IRA. There may have been a few individuals who supported them, but the United States always denounced them.
The only thing I ever recall as any official involvement was Bill Clinton's attempt to broker peace.
Where on Earth do you people come up with this stuff? |
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dingdong
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Double standards.......again. |
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gone
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We never supported the IRA. The only time the US got involved with peace talks between Britian and the IRA was when Clinton (who is Irish) got involved in the dialogue. Much progress was made with disarmament talks and now the IRA is responsibly active in the Irish government. Some private Irish groups did send funds to the IRA, but the government did not have any role to play with them since they were considered a terrorist group. |
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fawnrising
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This American didn't support the IRA. |
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Redmond
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I want to say that 9/11 woke a lot of those up blindly supporting NORAID. I really think it sounded the death knell for the war in the north of Ireland. We saw first hand, what sort of hell terrorism brought about. Although, it is an uneasy peace at this time, I think neither side wants to wake up the war again. |
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kitty9
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americans infuriate me.some have'nt been back to their country in years and have the nerve to glorify the murder that goes on there in the name of what they call a revolution.i hate them.they come here to see the h-blocks and gawp at the murals like they're some kind of alien.what about paul quinn? what about robert mccartney? and the omagh victims? jean mcconville? even more disgusting is that have a drink they name 'the irish car bomb'.i sincerely hope they think of all the carbomb victims when they are downing them.but it would'nt matter,they would justify it all the same.their 'freedom fighters' can do no wrong america is a shower of hypocrites.Noraid funded the deaths of our loved ones for so long and deserve everything they get.shame on them |
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