Egypt...oh no.

[Westdene Seagull]

Since when was Warrington on Irish soil? And since when did shopping centres house military barracks?

Your analogy is completely wrong, it's also downright offensive.

Agreed Warrington was a despicable act of murder. Before we get too high and mighty as British people though, I'm sure we killed rather a lot of children in Dresden.

 

[BHAZiggy]

and we as ass lickers to the Yanks all the time go along with it .

You mean like saying ass when you mean arse? I'm glad that you're not going with Americanisms.

 

[somerset]

go on...

Well, the Arab/Israeli joint homeland concept was shattered the moment the British left, neither side wanted to settle that way, civil war ensued and Israel became Israel, the 1947 solution is still actually on the table, but nobody pays any notice to it anymore, its not in the interest of either side to sign up to it now.

 

[daveinprague]

Fairly sure we were complicit in killing plenty of children during 'shock and awe' in Iraq.

 

[Tyrone Biggums]

there is a huge difference between attacking foreign occupying forces in your own territory and indiscriminately bombing the civilian population in another country

No there's not really.

Do you think when they bombed Dresden they took care not to blow any children up?

 

[Buzzer]

Hang on. So one set of troops can kill a person on foreign soil, but when someone else does it to their people it's a completely different scenario?

That's the crux of your point.

No it's not. The crux is what is and isn't a legitimate target. 4 year old boys in shopping centres are clearly not.

 

[Buzzer]

I'm out of this thread. The usual IRA apologist nonsense from Tyrone who clearly shares the same romantic notion of the boys back home as those morons in Boston.

 

[Tyrone Biggums]

No it's not. The crux is what is and isn't a legitimate target. 4 year old boys in shopping centres are clearly not.

If a child dies in the act of a military action, then that is part of war.

How many bombs did we (the allies) drop during wars which indiscriminantly killed children?

The answer of course is shitloads.

 

[daveinprague]

Isnt it murder when a western child is killed, but collateral damage if foreign children are killed?

 

[BadFish]

Well, the Arab/Israeli joint homeland concept was shattered the moment the British left, neither side wanted to settle that way, civil war ensued and Israel became Israel, the 1947 solution is still actually on the table, but nobody pays any notice to it anymore, its not in the interest of either side to sign up to it now.

Israel became Israel and ignored it's agreements about the partition and began its occupation of Palestine and its persecution of the Palestinian people. Resulting in their attempts to fight back while being driven out of their country as refugees or pushed into the occupied territories.

http://www.unrwa.org/etemplate.php?id=86

 

[somerset]

Hezbollah fought them to a standstill toe to toe in Lebanon last time didnt they?

Israel reached all their goals except the evident stupidity of "getting back the kidnapped soldiers". Hezbollah was driven 30 miles from the Israeli border and that border, and Hezbollah, have mostly been quiet since 2006, even during the big Gaza uprisings when you would have thought they may have taken some advantage. But, they did fight tenaciously, and with the modern Iran/China equipped weaponary they had available, they inflicted over a hundred casualties on Israel.

 

[BHAZiggy]

Fairly sure we were complicit in killing plenty of children during 'shock and awe' in Iraq.

And even more with the sanctions that were in place for several years.

 

[BadFish]

And even more with the sanctions that were in place for several years.

In Blair's Illegal war Eh Somerset??

 

[somerset]

Israel became Israel and ignored it's agreements about the partition and began its occupation of Palestine and its persecution of the Palestinian people. Resulting in their attempts to fight back while being driven out of their country as refugees or pushed into the occupied territories.

http://www.unrwa.org/etemplate.php?id=86

It seems you are right,... ok, they reneged on all the UN agreements of the time..... naughty bleeders....!

 

[somerset]

In Blair's Illegal war Eh Somerset??

Don't start......