Word games? Aren't YOU the one who started playing these word games? You said I am LAN because I have LAN at the beginning of my name (how mature), so I think you're Fionas because you have "Fi" at the beginning of your name. It works both ways.

I think Fionas and Fianna are the same person, because they both have "Fi" at the beginning of their nicknames.

According to you, it is okay to be a member of the IRA, that kills people, because it wants the Brits out of Northern Ireland, even though Northern Ireland is a part of our country and not yours, but it is not okay for someone to be a member of the BNP, who doesn't kill people, who wants foreigners out of Britain. Hmmmmm.

I think you will find that the UK is the second military power. France is the third. We also have the most influence is Washington DC. Britain is the second most powerful nation. We earn more from trade than any other nation in the world. we are the world's largest maritime exporting nation. Our Royal navy is the world's second-largest.

And what makes you think that just because I don't support a terrorist like you it must mean that I'm a member of the BNP? Sre you sayiing that anyone who doesn't support the IRA is a member of the BNP? And even if I was BNP, I would rather be a member of that than be a member of the IRA.

Says the IA supporter.

Don't throw your toys out of the pram just because I spelt your name wrong. I've been called Lancaster many times on this forum, but I've never whinged about it.

Damn, fucking Germany. Probably the most hated country in Europe. And the most arrogant. None of you have a sense of humour. Austria isn't in Germany, but Northern Ireland is in the UK. Do you also think Texas isn't in the US?

I thought you were French.

By defending your nation, do you mean cutting off Algerian men's penises and sticking them in their mouths?

Oh no no no. YOU'RE ignorant of the issues. Get yur facts straight before posting on here the Britain occupies Ireland. Britain occupies Ireland? What a load of rubbish. Next you'll be saying that Elvis is alive.

I don't call it being brave when you run away as soon as you smell a whiff of sauerkraut coming from over the border.

It just as insulting for all the British soldiers who fought and died to liberate France from the Germans when you talk about Bloody Sunday. So stop being hypocritical.

The last time your soldiers saw action was when they were fleeing in terror from the Germans.

No it wouldn't, because the British soldiers don't just target innocent civilians at will.

Britain doesn't occupy Ireland. It is a free, democratic nation. A member of the EU. God, you're stupid.

There was a famine in ALL OF EUROPE in the 1840's. But not in England because it was the richest country in the world. There was even a famine in Scotland. But why should England give corn to all of the countries in Europe that needed it? It would have had none left for itself.

But Irish made the situation for themselves worse. As the Belgians were opening soup kitchens and bakeries because they also had a famine, the Irish just sat on their asses expecting the English to feed them.

Ireland IS free. It's a Republic. What's wrong with you?

And I suppose you lecture on history? It's you who's got no common sense. How ironic it would be if you went to London and an IRA bomb blew your arms off.

The British never think about the Republic of Ireland. They've no need to. There's nothing interesting there. But we keep getting harrassed by Irish bombs. Ireland is nothing more than a little terrier snapping at Britain's heels. The UK is the world's second most powerful country. We could bomb your country into oblivion if we wanted to and turn it into a car park. We would make the IRA bombs look like mere firecrackers.

You hate the monarchy? So what? Most people in England and the rest of the world hate the IRA. If I had to choose to get rid of a terrorist organisation or the monarchy, I would choose the terrorist organisation. I don't know what harm the monarchy is doing to you.

And the potato famine wasn't caused by the British. It was caused by a potato blight. There was a potato famine all over Europe. But there wasn't one in England, because England was the richest country in the world. The other place hit badly was Belgium. But they don't blame it on the English like you do.

If you give me a few minutes, I can give you a list of all the nasty things the Irish have done around the world through the IRA. The IRA don't just bomb England, you know. They get about a bit. I can safely say that the amount of Brits that the IRA have killed is a lot more than the amount of people British soldiers killed on Bloody Sunday.

Gibraltareans, just like the Northern Irish, want to be British.

Witch hunts? You mean those things that took place in the 1600's in England, Scotland, France, Germany and even Ireland?

ChrissyBhoy- "I hate the British! But I still support their football teams because football teams in my country are crap. I'm nothing but a glory hunter."

Oh yea. We killed Nazis alright. But that was a good thing, was it not? Yet again, you Irish supported the Germans in World War I so it wouldn't surprise me if you did the same thing in World War II. Killing Nazis and killing innocent men, women and children are two different things.

Neither are those little babies who the IRA blow to smithereens with their bombs.

And who are you? An Irishman who loves his country so much that he supports a foreign football team, or a Scotsman who loves his country so much that his football team waves foreign flags?

Terry Jones
Sunday February 17, 2002
The Observer

To prevent terrorism by dropping bombs on Iraq is such an obvious idea that I can't think why no one has thought of it before. It's so simple. If only the UK had done something similar in Northern Ireland, we wouldn't be in the mess we are in today.

The moment the IRA blew up the Horseguards' bandstand, the Government should have declared its own War on Terrorism. It should have immediately demanded that the Irish government hand over Gerry Adams. If they refused to do so - or quibbled about needing proof of his guilt - we could have told them that this was no time for prevarication and that they must hand over not only Adams but all IRA terrorists in the Republic. If they tried to stall by claiming that it was hard to tell who were IRA terrorists and who weren't, because they don't go around wearing identity badges, we would have been free to send in the bombers.

It is well known that the best way of picking out terrorists is to fly 30,000ft above the capital city of any state that harbours them and drop bombs - preferably cluster bombs. It is conceivable that the bombing of Dublin might have provoked some sort of protest, even if just from James Joyce fans, and there is at least some likelihood of increased anti-British sentiment in what remained of the city and thus a rise in the numbers of potential terrorists. But this, in itself, would have justified the tactic of bombing them in the first place. We would have nipped them in the bud, so to speak. I hope you follow the argument.

Having bombed Dublin and, perhaps, a few IRA training bogs in Tipperary, we could not have afforded to be complacent. We would have had to turn our attention to those states which had supported and funded the IRA terrorists through all these years. The main provider of funds was, of course, the USA, and this would have posed us with a bit of a problem. Where to bomb in America? It's a big place and it's by no means certain that a small country like the UK could afford enough bombs to do the whole job. It's going to cost the US billions to bomb Iraq and a lot of that is empty countryside. America, on the other hand, provides a bewildering number of targets.

Should we have bombed Washington, where the policies were formed? Or should we have concentrated on places where Irishmen are known to lurk, like New York, Boston and Philadelphia? We could have bombed any police station and fire station in most major urban centres, secure in the knowledge that we would be taking out significant numbers of IRA sympathisers. On St Patrick's Day, we could have bombed Fifth Avenue and scored a bull's-eye.

In those American cities we couldn't afford to bomb, we could have rounded up American citizens with Irish names, put bags over their heads and flown them in chains to Guernsey or Rockall, where we could have given them food packets marked 'My Kind of Meal' and exposed them to the elements with a clear conscience.

The same goes for Australia. There are thousands of people in Sydney and Melbourne alone who have actively supported Irish republicanism by sending money and good wishes back to people in the Republic, many of whom are known to be IRA members and sympathisers. A well-placed bomb or two Down Under could have taken out the ringleaders and left the world a safer place. Of course, it goes without saying that we would also have had to bomb various parts of London such as Camden Town, Lewisham and bits of Hammersmith and we should certainly have had to obliterate, if not the whole of Liverpool, at least the Scotland Road area.

And that would be it really, as far as exterminating the IRA and its supporters. Easy. The War on Terrorism provides a solution so uncomplicated, so straightforward and so gloriously simple that it baffles me why it has taken a man with the brains of George W. Bush to think of it.

So, sock it to Iraq, George. Let's make the world a safer place