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nationalist civilians. The British Army does not have to try to kill every single person for it to be an attack.

paulh
But they'd probably have to kill more than 20 a year for it to be

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considered an

paulh
'attack'.. My issue is that the word attack is somewhat harsh considering

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their

paulh
legal right to be there and the alarming lack of casualites for such a

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dramatic

paulh
sounding event. Its not exactly the Somme or Operation Barbarossa is it.

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By that logic, a rapist never 'attacks' his victim because it is not as deadly as the Somme.

That's clearly ridiculous. There is no minimum number of casualties needed to classify something as an attack. It is even possible to have an attack in which there are no deaths whatsoever.

Your snide insinuations aside, I never said anywhere that any action of

the

IRA was OK, or justified. I merely said that some IRA actions do not count as terrorist actions but rather as other non-terrorist unjust actions.

Some

of them don't even fit your ever-changing non-definition of terrorism.

paulh
Now you're just copying Russ.

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Nothing wrong with that when he's right. You might have noticed btw that I apologised to Russ when I misrepresented his position. I've yet to see an apology from you for saying that I support IRA terrorism.