Irish mercenaries, unionist coat trailers and the Bard of Dunclug

[Chrisowc]

'Indeed, Belfast wasn't even the first Welcome Home Parade organised for the RIR in a British town that same week:'

Belfast isn't in Britain, thesaurus boy

Thanks for the geography lesson. 

It's a British City though.

[Doogie Browser]

I see Willie Frazer was venting his twisted spleen in yesterday's Irish News, I am sure there will be a few replies tomorrow and Saturday.  He was quick to point out the past activities of some of the marshalls employed at the protest, conveniently Willie forgot to mention the glorious pasts and indeed current misdemeanours of the UDA brigadiers who enjoyed prominent positions on the front line with loyal UDR/RIR supporters on Sunday.

[nifan]

Doogie, hardly unexpected from Frazer. He sees only one side of any story.

[mylestheslasher]

From Reuters... http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE4A44EW20081105


KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai said on Wednesday an air strike by coalition forces earlier this week killed some 40 civilians and wounded about 28 in Kandahar province.

Karzai called on U.S. President-elect Barack Obama to make it his priority to stop the killing of civilians.

Scores of Afghans have been killed in U.S. air strikes this year, leading to resentment against the presence of foreign troops and a rift between Karzai and his Western backers.

The air strike took place on Monday in the Shah Wali Kot district in the southern Taliban heartland of Kandahar province.

"By bombing Afghanistan, the war against terrorism cannot be won," Karzai told a news conference.

Several villagers who had taken a group of wounded to the hospital in Kandahar city said the air strike hit a wedding party.

The U.S. military said it was checking reports.

"The coalition and Afghan authorities are investigating reports of non-combatant casualties in the village of Wech Baghtu," said U.S. forces spokesman Commander Jeff Bender.

"If innocent people were killed in this operation, we apologize and express our condolences to the families and the people of Afghanistan," he said in a statement.

U.S.-AFGHAN TENSION

Reuters television pictures from the village of Wech Baghtu showed a burned car and half a dozen men shoveling white, dusty rubble from an area surrounded by a wall. The villagers showed Reuters white material soaked in blood.

The bride was among the wounded brought to the main hospital in Kandahar city, her relative Juma Khan said. The air strike happened during a clash between foreign troops and Taliban insurgents in Shah Wali Kot district, Khan said.

A Reuters witness saw three children with shrapnel wounds and seven wounded women in the hospital.

Karzai requested Obama make it his priority to end civilian casualties.

"The main problem, which has become a matter of tension (with the United States), is civilian casualties," Karzai said. "Civilian casualties should completely stop. The war in the villages of Afghanistan will never give fruit."

Some 4,000 people, around a third of them civilians, have been killed this year in fighting with the Taliban, who have expanded the scope and scale of their insurgency trying to oust Karzai's Western-backed government and eject foreign forces.

Lets have another parade for these heroes when they come home.

[red hander]

Yep, real heroes indeed ... good job the brave chaps of RAF didn't flyover on sunday, they'd have probably dropped bombs on the RVH or a couple of scout huts in south Belfast

[Rossfan]

'Indeed, Belfast wasn't even the first Welcome Home Parade organised for the RIR in a British town that same week:'

Belfast isn't in Britain, thesaurus boy

Thanks for the geography lesson. 

It's a British City though.

No it's not ya eejit - look at the map - it's in Ireland not in Britain( that's the big Island to the east of us)

[Fear ón Srath Bán]

'Indeed, Belfast wasn't even the first Welcome Home Parade organised for the RIR in a British town that same week:'

Belfast isn't in Britain, thesaurus boy

Thanks for the geography lesson. 

It's a British City though.

Only fools think that a part of one island (Ireland, and Irish) can be classified as being of a different island (Britain, and British), but being the unmercifully charitable being that I am, my glowing light of optimism shines eternally for more horrifically benighted individuals, and such is the glorious bounty of my desire to enlighten all, there are no lengths to which I will not reach to unshackle even the most intransigent of shuttered minds.
Your time will come 

[Orior]

The empire used to be this size O but now its only this size o

Poor owc

[reddgnhand]

From Reuters... http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE4A44EW20081105


KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai said on Wednesday an air strike by coalition forces earlier this week killed some 40 civilians and wounded about 28 in Kandahar province.

Karzai called on U.S. President-elect Barack Obama to make it his priority to stop the killing of civilians.

Scores of Afghans have been killed in U.S. air strikes this year, leading to resentment against the presence of foreign troops and a rift between Karzai and his Western backers.

The air strike took place on Monday in the Shah Wali Kot district in the southern Taliban heartland of Kandahar province.

"By bombing Afghanistan, the war against terrorism cannot be won," Karzai told a news conference.

Several villagers who had taken a group of wounded to the hospital in Kandahar city said the air strike hit a wedding party.

The U.S. military said it was checking reports.

"The coalition and Afghan authorities are investigating reports of non-combatant casualties in the village of Wech Baghtu," said U.S. forces spokesman Commander Jeff Bender.

"If innocent people were killed in this operation, we apologize and express our condolences to the families and the people of Afghanistan," he said in a statement.

U.S.-AFGHAN TENSION

Reuters television pictures from the village of Wech Baghtu showed a burned car and half a dozen men shoveling white, dusty rubble from an area surrounded by a wall. The villagers showed Reuters white material soaked in blood.

The bride was among the wounded brought to the main hospital in Kandahar city, her relative Juma Khan said. The air strike happened during a clash between foreign troops and Taliban insurgents in Shah Wali Kot district, Khan said.

A Reuters witness saw three children with shrapnel wounds and seven wounded women in the hospital.

Karzai requested Obama make it his priority to end civilian casualties.

"The main problem, which has become a matter of tension (with the United States), is civilian casualties," Karzai said. "Civilian casualties should completely stop. The war in the villages of Afghanistan will never give fruit."

Some 4,000 people, around a third of them civilians, have been killed this year in fighting with the Taliban, who have expanded the scope and scale of their insurgency trying to oust Karzai's Western-backed government and eject foreign forces.

Lets have another parade for these heroes when they come home.

Could you imagine the Taliban blowing up a wedding party in London or New York and then heading back to Afghanistan for a homecoming parade. There would be some outrage.      

[ardmhachaabu]

'Indeed, Belfast wasn't even the first Welcome Home Parade organised for the RIR in a British town that same week:'

Belfast isn't in Britain, thesaurus boy

Thanks for the geography lesson. 

It's a British City though.

Only fools think that a part of one island (Ireland, and Irish) can be classified as being of a different island (Britain, and British), but being the unmercifully charitable being that I am, my glowing light of optimism shines eternally for more horrifically benighted individuals, and such is the glorious bounty of my desire to enlighten all, there are no lengths to which I will not reach to unshackle even the most intransigent of shuttered minds.
Your time will come 

There is about a grain of sand of truth in that, the rest of it... oh just shut up

[Fear ón Srath Bán]

Could you imagine the Taliban blowing up a wedding party in London or New York and then heading back to Afghanistan for a homecoming parade. There would be some outrage.      

At least they'd be going back to their own country to march, prance, triumphalise, and fart about, not to a neighbouring country that they unerringly use for cannon-fodder and trench digging, whenever the need arises, for the odd little squalid dirty invasion or 'war'.  And rewarded with divisive 'homecoming' parades. As usual, when there's a danger of too much unity of purpose and cohesion in Ireland, Britannia exercises her un-prerogative to divide, and thereby rule. Trouble is, it's fallen for, every time.

[Fear ón Srath Bán]

'Indeed, Belfast wasn't even the first Welcome Home Parade organised for the RIR in a British town that same week:'

Belfast isn't in Britain, thesaurus boy

Thanks for the geography lesson. 

It's a British City though.

Only fools think that a part of one island (Ireland, and Irish) can be classified as being of a different island (Britain, and British), but being the unmercifully charitable being that I am, my glowing light of optimism shines eternally for more horrifically benighted individuals, and such is the glorious bounty of my desire to enlighten all, there are no lengths to which I will not reach to unshackle even the most intransigent of shuttered minds.
Your time will come 

There is about a grain of sand of truth in that, the rest of it... oh just shut up

You again whacky, the conspiracy theorist par paranoia. I'm so sorry I annoy you so much, truly, I am. 

[ardmhachaabu]

'Indeed, Belfast wasn't even the first Welcome Home Parade organised for the RIR in a British town that same week:'

Belfast isn't in Britain, thesaurus boy

Thanks for the geography lesson. 

It's a British City though.

Only fools think that a part of one island (Ireland, and Irish) can be classified as being of a different island (Britain, and British), but being the unmercifully charitable being that I am, my glowing light of optimism shines eternally for more horrifically benighted individuals, and such is the glorious bounty of my desire to enlighten all, there are no lengths to which I will not reach to unshackle even the most intransigent of shuttered minds.
Your time will come 

There is about a grain of sand of truth in that, the rest of it... oh just shut up

You again whacky, the conspiracy theorist par paranoia. I'm so sorry I annoy you so much, truly, I am. 

Well whenever I see posts that indicate that the poster really has a mental problem, I tend to stay away from the thread(s) as I like it here.  However, sometimes, I just can't help myself and I give in to the temptation and reply.  Whenever I reply, my initial thoughts are usually in tune with my perception of the poster.  Thus is the case again with you 

Only a fool can say that Northern Ireland as a political entity is not British, yet you managed that in the above post.  Congratulations! 

[Fear ón Srath Bán]

Well whenever I see posts that indicate that the poster really has a mental problem, I tend to stay away from the thread(s) as I like it here.  However, sometimes, I just can't help myself and I give in to the temptation and reply.  Whenever I reply, my initial thoughts are usually in tune with my perception of the poster.  Thus is the case again with you 

Only a fool can say that Northern Ireland as a political entity is not British, yet you managed that in the above post.  Congratulations! 

I take it you've forgotten to take your tablets today?

[Chrisowc]

'Indeed, Belfast wasn't even the first Welcome Home Parade organised for the RIR in a British town that same week:'

Belfast isn't in Britain, thesaurus boy

Thanks for the geography lesson. 

It's a British City though.

Only fools think that a part of one island (Ireland, and Irish) can be classified as being of a different island (Britain, and British),

Not sure where you picked up that I said that one part of the island of Ireland was part of a different island?