That they had been funding the Irish Republican Army so they inflict the terrorism that we suffered for 30 years
2007-09-11 04:22:41 · 14 answers · asked by We are change 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
of course 9/11 was justified, you damn yanks go around the world flexing muscle and don't expect retribution?
sad thing is america won't learn, they been doing it too long, and to boot, they havn't accomplished anything since ww2, vietnam, somalia, korea just for starters......LOL
2007-09-11 04:45:15 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 9⤋
Guys
Calm down!!
The question may be badly phrased but he is not saying that he supported 911, or that the U.S deserved it.
I think that he is trying to say that for the first time, many Americans (mainly Irish Americans) realised that there was nothing noble or glamourous about blowing people up in their places of work, as the IRA had been doing for thirty years.
We all know that there were certain bars in Boston which used to have fund raisers entitled "spare a dollar and kill a Brit" which then funded explosive which blew up Irish people in pubs and shopping centres simply because they supported the wrong religious team.
When I was in New York just after 911, I was thanked many times in bars for the support of the UK and it was not unusual for New Yorkers to make the same point and the questioner is trying to make.
And that is simply that prior to this event, donating a dollar to a far away, freedom fighting band with curious folk songs and relgious fervour was seen as being quite quaint, but when 911 happened it was just someone elses bunch of far away, freedom fighting, people with curious folk songs and religious fervour.......and all of a sudden it wasnt so quaint!!
What really forced the IRA to the negotiating table was not Bliar and his cronies but the fact that their funds dried up overnight.
I support the USA and their people, and have been active in the fight back after 9/11. I just think that people here are misreading the question.
2007-09-12 08:57:24 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
You are a moron. I'm British (and proud of it) and I think the Sept 11th atrocity was exactly that, an atrocity. A few American individuals funded the IRA. You can't tarnish the whole Nation with a brush that big! A few of the Taliban terrorists came from the UK initially (Bin Laden is/was actually a fan of Arsenal FC and went to a few matches in the 1990's) so does that make the whole of the UK Taliban? I think not! I know you're just a troll, and I'm biting, but I have to try and get my point across.
2007-09-12 08:19:09 · answer #3 · answered by genghis41f 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Only a pig-ignorant bigot could make such a stupid statement.
Some of the American-Irish community were quilty of funding the IRA, yet you tar the whole country with the same brush.
Not very inteligent are you.
2007-09-11 12:00:02 · answer #4 · answered by conranger1 7 · 7⤊ 0⤋
I think you need to hang your head in shame with this question. A lot of hard working people, Brits and American and others were killed during this attack. I am British and the first to raise about Ireland but I wouldn't wish this on anyone ......So I apologise to all and sundry for this stupid question and hope that all Brits are not viewed with this stupidity
2007-09-11 12:06:04 · answer #5 · answered by valf 4 · 5⤊ 1⤋
Why not?
They were great grave- diggers of the past.
Look at "The pot of golds glittering at the end of the rainbow"
being dug out too.
With Judas and crown of thorns with two empty hands and Barnabas nailing themselves to the cross.
While Jesus walk away free and were not even dead yet in climbing up the coconut trees and still look green as casualty of the dead Mummy in not worshiping God.
Luke 9.60
2007-09-12 01:04:39 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
I must admit I did think that they had it coming(watch Blackhawk Down,imagine if we killed 1000 Irish in one day) and hoped that they might stop funding the various terrorist groups in NI. We lost a lot of soldiers thanks to US involvment out there.
I dont think they did us a favour though seeing as we are now in Iraq and Afghan instead.
2007-09-11 17:52:07 · answer #7 · answered by Gunner Reah 2 · 2⤊ 3⤋
What an awful thing to say. I pray that no family or friends of yours are ever involved in such a tragedy
2007-09-11 11:37:16 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 1⤋
yes it did,
it made Americans realize what terrorism is and made it very hard for a small minority to fund it.
but it was a sad day for Ireland American and Britain.
2007-09-11 12:00:07 · answer #9 · answered by R R 6 · 4⤊ 2⤋
Yeah I guess so. You brits are incapable of doing anything on your own. How many messes have we got you out of? To bad you've got a moron heading to the throne. We're getting rid of ours soon. And all this coming from a country that inflicted attrocities long before America was America.
2007-09-11 11:34:23 · answer #10 · answered by firey_cowgirl 5 · 4⤊ 7⤋
I agree with conranger1 on this one.
2007-09-11 12:11:27 · answer #11 · answered by Joe C 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋