Americans Killed in Iraq

[A face]

In West Cork, certain people are considered hero's for their part in the termination of "Black & Tans."
Is this too dissimilar?


I think yes .... the Black and Tans for the most part we convicts and paid their way out of jail and onto the ships to come here. It was circumstance, there was a limited (no) choice. Those in Iraq right now do (to be honest) have a choice and can exercise it.

Thats my understanding of it anyway !!

[Peadar]

Those in Iraq are career soldiers who volunteered to fight for their country and do what their commander in chief tells them to do, as good soldiers should.

I thought we were talking about "Security Contractors"?

Did anyone see "Taking Bagdad" on Discovery last night?
Hard hitting stuff.

[Duncan Gardner]

Davros. "Illegal US intervention" implies action by the US government. You can hardly compare this with Noraid- if you did, every time a Yank tourist got a speeding ticket, it would qualify as illegal intervention.

A Face. Most of the Tans and Auxis were soldiers demobbed from the British Army at the end of WW1. I doubt more than a small proportion of them,certainly well below 50%, were ex-cons.

Conor. Obeying orders from your officers and observing the Geneva Conventions aren't co-terminous. In practice the Tan atrocities were approved by the British Army.

[Duncan Gardner]

Yawn. Noraid isn't part of the US government. That government has never given it official sanction. It's a private organisation sometimes active in Ireland. Therefore any illegal actions by it or its members are comparable to an illegal action by a private US citizen. If you bothered to read other posts rather than ranting incoherently this would be self-evident, you fat bald numbskull :D

PS you're not even really Irish, so what are ye doing on this board anyway?