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Old 06-20-2008, 11:37 AM
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Originally Posted by Finny View Post
I think the IRA are freedom fighters.. Just as you call folks like John Hancock, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Ben Franklin, Patrick Henry, and the others.. Patriots..

The Brits called them Rebels, today the Brits invoke the word Terrorist.
Can we not lump a whole load of people as thinking exactly the same, you've done it here with "the Brits", a people I've never met in my life, and it has been done many times before by various people. I don't say "the Americans are racist" for example, though some might be.
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