I can’t call anyone an idiot anymore!

@no1marauder

So, just to clarify.

Do you think the Warrington bombings were (a) misguided, or (b) not.

No need for any long winded explanation. Just go for a or b.

@no1marauder said
Than don't discuss it anymore if it hurts your feelings to do so.

That is real history, not the propaganda you peddle.

@blood-on-the-tracks said
@no1marauder

So, just to clarify.

Do you think the Warrington bombings were (a) misguided, or (b) not.

No need for any long winded explanation. Just go for a or b.

@blood-on-the-tracks said
First quoted sentence. Bizarre. Where did I say it 'hurt my feelings'??

Second - what propaganda do you feel I 'peddle'? I haven't said much at all about the 'troubles', apart from being very critical of the Warrington bombing.

@no1marauder said
The posts are deleted but you claimed the IRA were "terrorists".

That is propaganda.

@blood-on-the-tracks said
From when? Absolute nonsense

I see you ignore the first bit of nonsense

@blood-on-the-tracks said
First quoted sentence. Bizarre. Where did I say it 'hurt my feelings'??

Second - what propaganda do you feel I 'peddle'? I haven't said much at all about the 'troubles', apart from being very critical of the Warrington bombing.

@no1marauder said
No, I won't play by such rules.

The discussion was about the claim that the IRA were "terrorists" with the only evidence given the Warrington bombing (obviously not the one at the gas storage facility but in front of the Boots and McDonald's). IF the IRA gave the specific warnings it claims, then the action was a justifiable one under the rules of war and not a target ...[text shortened]... reckless behavior on the part of the IRA.

I don't have enough information to judge which is true.

@no1marauder said
BOT: "then there is no further productive discussion to be had."

Hurt feelings, stubbornness, closed mindedness, call it what you will. You evinced a disinclination to discuss the matter at all because I don't agree with you.

Posts and threads regarding the Palestinian issue on this board long predate Duchess' infestation of it. MANY posters here have strongly supported that struggle and infantile, grandiose claims are typical of her style but she and Finnegan were no stronger supporters of that struggle than many here. I believe for a while we even had a Palestinian poster on Debates who's name escapes me at the moment.

Of course, that the sainted Finnegan would call someone else an "armchair terrorist" while he supported the Palestinian struggle, which has often used force including against civilians, is hypocritical.

@no1marauder said
From the thread in "Site Announcements".

That was the entire issue; it's frustrating that the entire thread has been removed and all the posts deleted even from the Search function.

Of course, if you now want to concede the IRA weren't terrorists, then the discussion is moot.