Spake Bill Canaday on Monday, May 31, 2004 at 12:01AM -0400:
> On Sunday 30 May 2004 07:20 pm, Dylan William Hardison wrote:
>
> > You mean northern ireland.
>
> No I don't.
>
> Even a single British soldier bearing arms anywhere on my ancestral soil is an
> occupying army of one too many.
>
> Since I am not subscribed to the SLUG-politics list I encourage you to
> continue this discussion in that forum.
>
Bill: I apologize. I didn't mean in any way that I think
Northern Ireland should remain in union to the UK. I was merely
pointing out that there arn't any active british soldiers in
Ireland-the-nation (Eire, the Republic of Ireland). The other bit I said
comes from listening to a friend that lives in the Republic of Ireland.
I will not reply to this thread from this point on.
At least not without flame retardent undergarments.
To be sure; I'm a proud irish-american (with scottish, english,
welsh, and other things thrown in for good measure),
but I'm really sure I don't know enough about this issue to argue it.
I don't live there, so I don't think I should really have a strong
opinion about it.
Also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Ireland#History
and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ireland-related_topics are very
good reads.
Erin go bragh. :)
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