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IRA: Um, Sorry About All Those Bombings and Dead People! Sorry, Sorry....
Yahoo News | July 16, 2002

Posted on 07/16/2002 5:44:01 PM PDT by Timesink

Breaking News::

BELFAST, Northern Ireland The Irish Republican Army issues statement apologizing for killings of noncombatants over 30 years.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: ira; thetroubles; toolittletoolate
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1 posted on 07/16/2002 5:44:01 PM PDT by Timesink
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To: Timesink
"Hey! It's not as if we farted in public or anything," spokesman Liam O'Shaunessey said.
2 posted on 07/16/2002 5:53:34 PM PDT by VadeRetro
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To: Timesink
So who's next? Yassir Arafat?
3 posted on 07/16/2002 5:55:05 PM PDT by dennisw
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To: Timesink
Every time I hear of something like this, I think of Bubba running all over the world apologizing to everyone for stuff that happened hundreds of years ago.
5 posted on 07/16/2002 5:57:02 PM PDT by Paul Atreides
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To: dennisw
Yeah, I heard Yasser was going to substitute new wording for the Palistinian mantra "Death to Israel".

The new wording will be "Dang Israel anyway".

6 posted on 07/16/2002 5:57:21 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie
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To: Timesink
....Uncle Albert."
7 posted on 07/16/2002 5:57:21 PM PDT by gcruse
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To: Timesink
Plenty precedes: IRA 'sorry' for civilian deaths
8 posted on 07/16/2002 5:58:31 PM PDT by SMEDLEYBUTLER
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To: Timesink
So, like should'nt we be bombing the caves in Northern Ireland??. What do they call them there?, pubs??
9 posted on 07/16/2002 5:59:54 PM PDT by TJFLSTRAT
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To: SMEDLEYBUTLER
Huh. Stupid Yahoo news. That "Breaking News" email just dropped into my mailbox 20 minutes ago.
10 posted on 07/16/2002 5:59:56 PM PDT by Timesink
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Well progress. Now if only the British would say they were sorry for the Irish dead by Cromwell, the potato famine and the repressions to occupy Ireland for these many years. Wouldn't you like to see peace?
11 posted on 07/16/2002 6:02:45 PM PDT by ex-snook
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To: Timesink
Every time that my Irish cousins welcome Bubba with open arms or lob bombs-I cringe. I find it hard to believe that we share the same genes.
12 posted on 07/16/2002 6:03:58 PM PDT by Wild Irish Rogue
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To: Timesink
Despite that the gutless fascist and former Blair-KKKli'toon-NATO Neo-Axis cohort , Turdway Tony Blair, has already cravenly surrendered to that obscene, mass-murdering mob of Marxist-Hitlerist, bank-robbing, drug-dealing, psychopathic, gangster bastards; that the gang's multinational murder-for-hire operations; recently on view in Columbia; have long been known to all of the world's security services: -- now that Our Beloved FRaternal Republic's President and Armed Forces Commander In Chief, George Walker Bush, recently made clear America's position on all terrorism -- who can wonder that; comprised as it is of legless anonymous cowards; it tucks its goose-step-like strutting away for the minute -- and pretends remorse for its barbarism?

And offers up a few crocodile tears?
13 posted on 07/16/2002 6:07:33 PM PDT by Brian Allen
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To: one_particular_harbour
Lest all the Liam O'Shaunessey's of the world sue me, the "real" IRA spokesman's name is "P O'Neill," as always. (Sort of like "His Holiness is always in excellent health until he is dead.")

It's a good thing I'm not married to the people to whom you are married. My 52 1/2 year old colon is a bit cantankerous. OK, sometimes treacherous. And I stopped eating chile relenos a long time ago.

14 posted on 07/16/2002 6:08:33 PM PDT by VadeRetro
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To: Wild Irish Rogue
Yes. But you'll note that the IRA never apologized when Bubba was around. I think maybe they were getting a little worried now that Bubba's gone - I mean, might someone think they were TERRORISTS?

Bubba didn't believe in terrorists (at least, if they were leftists), and while Bush could be a little more outspoken about it, he does. I think a lot of these groups are getting the message. The IRA obviously did.
15 posted on 07/16/2002 6:09:50 PM PDT by livius
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To: one_particular_harbour
As for "fixing yourself," I don't have to tell you that those adjustments come on a scale from "take your time" to flashing red "Urgent."
16 posted on 07/16/2002 6:12:59 PM PDT by VadeRetro
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To: ex-snook; Timesink
<< ..... Now if only the British would say they were sorry for the Irish dead by Cromwell, the potato famine and the repressions to occupy Ireland for these many years. >>

Modern Britain owe the Irish no apologies for Cromwell.

The potato famine was "Britain's fault" in the same way United States of America's Greatest Post-Founding Father President Ronald Reagan was responsible for AIDS.

And there is not and never has been British "repression" and "occupation" in and/or of Iralend.

Cordially -- Brian [Boru of the Bog of] Allen
17 posted on 07/16/2002 6:14:36 PM PDT by Brian Allen
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To: one_particular_harbour
If you ask some people I'm married to

And how many people are you married to?
18 posted on 07/16/2002 6:17:09 PM PDT by BJClinton
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To: livius
You are absolutely on the mark!
19 posted on 07/16/2002 6:17:18 PM PDT by Wild Irish Rogue
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To: one_particular_harbour
If you ask some people I'm married to, farting in public, belching in public, or, um, fixing yourself is a horrendous crime.

I'm lucky. I can do anything I like so long as I say 'Excuse me' after.

20 posted on 07/16/2002 6:20:11 PM PDT by Lazamataz
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