On Fri, 22 Jul 2005 20:48:25 , "Tom Donaly"
wrote:

We "funded" the IRA?

The British have always been under the impression that
we Americans saved our pennies for the sole purpose of
sending them to the IRA to finance the IRA's terrorist practices.
This is news to those of us who lived through the whole
era without giving anyone anything, or even taking sides
on the issue. There may have been a few Irish expatriots on
the East Coast who contributed to the IRA during that time,
but, for most Americans, it was a struggle that just didn't
register.
73,
Tom Donaly, KA6RUH

"Irish expatriots" ?
That'd be another euphemism for "financers of terrorism" as Dubbya
refers to those backing Bin Laden & Co. Huh?
Do I detect the first nauseating whiff of history being rewritten, to
expunge all traces of Stateside involvement with funding Irish
terrorism?

It's just a shame that Martin McGuinness is (according to US news
networks) in the US telling American financial backers, before
announcing to everybody else, that the "armed struggle" aka
terrorism, is being called off.
This is how it works. First you tell your bank, then you tell the
rest. That way it keeps your bank sweet for the next time you want
more bucks.


Big Mac.