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From: sofo@ihuxm.UUCP (Terry Bermes)
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  T. C. Wheeler refers to the IRA as a bunch of yellow-bellied terrorists.
No, I disagree. While I do have problems with some of their tactics, I feel
that they certainly have a legitimate cause. No one considered the French
resistance underground to be a group of terrorists as they tried to expel
an unwanted occupancy. If England refused to leave Northern Ireland, then 
the Irish have a right to take their war (and it is a war) to England's
home front. Agreed it is a minority of the Northern Irish who want to be
independent of England, but it was also a minority of American colonists
who also wanted their independence. Is the IRA spreading hatred? Or are
they attempting to get the self-determination that we Americans take for
granted. It is hatred that made a group like the IRA necessary. You can't
deny rights to a portion of the population and then expect them to go 
along with it. Northern Irish Catholics must be granted the same rights as
Protestants. Only then will this war cease. That this situation has arisen
at all is indeed tragic.

                                       Terry Bermes