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Old 03-17-2003, 09:31 PM
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I think it was more likely that Ireland was England's Vietnam. That war lasted almost a thousand years. The thing was the same, the Irish just never accepted defeat. The clumsy stupidity of the English helped a lot, too. I wonder if Ireland would have ever been free if they had not had the Potato Famine in the 1840's. The actions of the English hardened the Irish position severely.
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