People moan about soliders being killed in Iraq?

Cristiano R

Keep the soldiers out for a minute and think abt the country. Its people.

U talk abt max 5000 soldiers dying. But have u realised that a country has lost close to 500,000 and counting?

An entire country was decimated, destoryed only bcoz of 2 countries and their greed for free oil.

HePunksMeNot

I moan about people being killed in general.

josh.belini

it dosen't matter how many the IRA killed, the Iraq war wasn't necessary in the first place. People moan about the war in general because it's an avoidable war, it didn't NEED to happen, the americans thought they could go in, shoot who they wanted, and leave..................but war and countries are way more complicated!

River Rat Vietnam

Perhaps, but the IRA has had 300 years of British cruelty and domination, and it's taken them nearly that long to kill all those British soldiers. Read your history, if you can actually get unbiased history in England. I know we can't in the US

vdv_desantnik

so far yes but that was over 30 years the Iraqis are catching up quite fast and British forces only been in Iraq for 4 years. Problem is IRA fight like coward and not want to stick around for fight with professional Iraqi Muslim insurgent not afraid to die as he think he is going to paradise and 70 virgins reward!

Big Dave

I'm not sure what your getting at. How are these tow situations connected?

David T

5400 people have died at the hands of the IRA 3000 aprox were soldiers in this day and age our troops should have the technology and protection that best keeps them alive not the cheapest bid item to save money like that crap sa80 and the crap body armor and those crap land rovers they are out there and we should be giving them our support

ALLEN B

Best check your history books, have you never heard of the Great Wars ?

conranger1

763 British military personnel murdered by Nationalist Irish terrorists in Northern Ireland from 1971 to 1997.
Not counting the Police - UDR- or Civillians who were murded by terrorists.

So the IRA killed more British Soldiers than:

The Malaysian Rebellion.

The Mau-Mau Wars in Kenya.

The Suez Crisis.

The War in Aden.

The Falklands War.

Gulf War 1.

Gulf War 2.

Afganistan.

You really need to do some research before posting daft questions stating even more dafter opinions.

Beastie

Possibly, I have no idea. Since the IRA is now dead as a paramilitary force, I would wonder exactly what that's got to do with Iraq?

And Northern Ireland was directly a British conflict, it wasn't our government sending our soldiers to a foreign country. That's why people moan about soldiers being killed in Iraq.

Hey, River Rat. That's why a lot of people don't like Irish Americans. They funded and supported a group that planted bombs in the UK. And your government hates terrorists, does it? Didn't bother their backsides about Noraid making active fund raising for the IRA terrorists, did they? Keep your nose out of our country. We don't give a f*ck about yours.

sammie

Your question is more of a statement .. not sure what point you are trying to make

eddie

if you play with fire..you're gonna get burnt.

patriotwww

What is your point?

lovelifelikeabrit

Well, the Irish troubles were loosely based around religion. The IRA is in itself a catholic organisation. (I mean no offence toward the Catholic religion as a whole, I hasten to add).
The IRA were terrorists who thought nothing of murdering innocent women and children.
The IRA would not show themselves and hid their faces in the main.
They would turn up in the dead of night and shoot people in the knee caps Etc.
They would pull women from their homes, shave their heads and pour tar and feathers over them if they were considered to be 'aiding the enemy' (British Army)
The IRA invaded other countries and set off bombs killing innocent people who did not even know of their organisation. Bombs made of nails going off in shopping precincts on the Saturday before Mothering Sunday is the main one I recall. Several children were killed buying a present for their Mum.
The IRA received money and arms from outside Ireland and the UK.
The IRA had no respect for democracy, the referendems held amongst the Irish people clearly said, they wanted to remain part of the UK. Like the Iraqi terrorists they wanted the Army out (peace keeping force may I add) as they considered them Invaders however they still took the money from the British taxpayer as Ireland was not financially independent.

Anyway, I can see why the comparrison between two terrorist organisations. Some also considered it to be a civil war in Ireland because of course you had the UDF (Ulster Defence Force) fighting the IRA. It took 30 years and the involvement of many (including Bill Clinton) before the peace process was agreed.
I don't know the numbers here but feel that the writer may be referring to the 36 UK soldiers recently killed and the subsequent discussion in the UK, rather than adding up the total soldiers of the coalition as a whole who have been killed in Iraq.
May God Bless every soldier of every nation that stands between me and the terrorist.

make room for daddy

I think that they mourn and are genuinely heart broken about losing family members. Grief should be left alone and you should practice leaving yourself alone, you might actually meet someone that would like you.

Dai Sick

No you're thinking of the American air force.

Gen. Stiggo

This is relevant how, exactly?

sunshine

I totally agree with you. I live in Belfast and saw first hand the destruction that this war caused. It does not matter what war but our troops should not be getting slaughtered

sharon p

People dont moan about soldiers dying, thses are people whos lives have been cut short. They are not machines.
It doesnt matter where they have been killed, they have done so by doing their job/following orders and trying to help people. (which they are doing)
Try having family in the armed forces and then you can start moaning when they are killed.

Croney

i think youve missed the point - people are DYING. it doesnt make it ok because more people have died somewhere else.

Laura D

People moan because they shouldn't have been sent there in the first place- not for the W.M.D reason that Tony Blair/ Bush gave anyway.
If your husband/wife was killed out there, would you be a bit upset?

psymon

One thing has absolutely nothing to do with the other.

Xan

Hrm...

The question is...?

Jan S

You may be right, but these soldiers are in addition to those killed by the IRA, not instead of. Wrong exists in both of these instances. We can't bring back those who have died; we can prevent more killings though.

flopsy

I don't know, what moaning minnies we all are, they're only dead after all. I assume it must be much less painful if you get killed by someone who's native tongue is English than an Iraqi. I assume that's the point you're making.

bill

Wrong.

boobookittyfuck

we "moan" because those soldiers are friends,family, fathers, mothers etc.....

shakky_wakky

I don't understand this whole 'support our troops' issue.

People, especially women are shopping at the malls and young Americans from the rural areas are fighting this idealogical war.

Timothy M

False.

Catwhiskers

also, nobody seems to care thatthe british soldiers have killed thousands of innocent iraqis through bombing and suchlike.
Do their lives mean more than the "enemy"'s?

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