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Offline GScholz

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WTG Ireland!
« on: August 30, 2014, 11:49:10 AM »
http://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/heroic-irish-troops-rescue-filipino-4131748

"Heroic Irish troops rescue Filipino soldiers from clutches of Syrian rebels in Golan Heights"

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Re: WTG Ireland!
« Reply #1 on: August 30, 2014, 12:12:05 PM »
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Re: WTG Ireland!
« Reply #2 on: August 30, 2014, 02:04:32 PM »
Quote from: GScholz on August 30, 2014, 11:49:10 AM
http://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/heroic-irish-troops-rescue-filipino-4131748

"Heroic Irish troops rescue Filipino soldiers from clutches of Syrian rebels in Golan Heights"

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What did the heroic Irish (UN) troops did exactly? the article says nothing. Did they shoosh away the Jihadists with a rolled copy of the "Irish Mirror"?
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« Reply #3 on: August 30, 2014, 04:04:04 PM »
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Re: WTG Ireland!
« Reply #4 on: August 31, 2014, 02:19:21 PM »
Quote from: bozon on August 30, 2014, 02:04:32 PM
What did the heroic Irish (UN) troops did exactly? the article says nothing. Did they shoosh away the Jihadists with a rolled copy of the "Irish Mirror"?

Apparently they gunned their way through two Al Nusra roadblocks to get to the Filipinos who were being chased my the militants in a running battle, and then extracted them to Camp Faouar.
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« Reply #5 on: August 31, 2014, 04:05:30 PM »
Sounds like nonsense to me :old:

The Irish have not partaken in any legitimate confilict in 300 years :old:
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Re: WTG Ireland!
« Reply #6 on: August 31, 2014, 04:12:43 PM »
Quote from: zack1234 on August 31, 2014, 04:05:30 PM
Sounds like nonsense to me :old:

The Irish have not partaken in any legitimate confilict in 300 years :old:

Nonsense, I was there when they legitimately made contact with me, with a cast iron bathtub full off fertilisers and sugar, and about 10lbs of rusty nuts and.bolts
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Re: WTG Ireland!
« Reply #7 on: August 31, 2014, 04:53:04 PM »
Quote from: zack1234 on August 31, 2014, 04:05:30 PM
Sounds like nonsense to me :old:

The Irish have not partaken in any legitimate confilict in 300 years :old:

If you don't count thousands and thousands of Irish emigres who fought in the USA (while most where born in Ireland)....two wars with Mexico, The American Civil War (many states had entire regiments of Irish), the Western Indian Wars, the Spanish-American War, and WWI...while THEIR descendants fought in WWII, Korea, Vietnam, and Middle East & Asian conflicts....then you'd be correct.
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Re: WTG Ireland!
« Reply #8 on: August 31, 2014, 05:07:22 PM »
Quote from: GScholz on August 31, 2014, 02:19:21 PM
Apparently they gunned their way through two Al Nusra roadblocks to get to the Filipinos who were being chased my the militants in a running battle, and then extracted them to Camp Faouar.
What? the UN troops have guns and they know how to use them? I dont believe it. If they did go through the roadblocks guns blazing, the El Nusra guys must have fallen on the ground laughing. I would have loved to see that. Also, they have taken the poor Filipino chaps into Israel of all places! According to the UN's own resolutions record Israel is much more dangerous than Syria.  :P
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« Reply #9 on: August 31, 2014, 05:10:15 PM »
Yeah, and they actually managed to do that without killing a lot women and kids! Imagine that...  :P
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« Reply #10 on: August 31, 2014, 07:45:37 PM »
This article makes it sound like the Irish troops had a long a valiant battle with militants from Syria.  Looks like to me, thanks to the lack of information, that the Irish simply situated themselves between the fellow UN troops retreating and the pursuing Syrian militants.  Luck would have it that the (yuk yuk, pun intended) Syrians decided to not engage.

While I have no issues with the Irish, having this subject be headlines anywhere but in Ireland would be a bit over the top.  I'd be more impressed if the Irish would have sent a legit force to Iraq or Afghanistan under their own flag.  But alas....   
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Re: WTG Ireland!
« Reply #11 on: August 31, 2014, 07:51:36 PM »
Quote from: SmokinLoon on August 31, 2014, 07:45:37 PM
This article makes it sound like the Irish troops had a long a valiant battle with militants from Syria.  Looks like to me, thanks to the lack of information, that the Irish simply situated themselves between the fellow UN troops retreating and the pursuing Syrian militants.  Luck would have it that the (yuk yuk, pun intended) Syrians decided to not engage.   

That's pretty much how I read that article as well.
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« Reply #12 on: August 31, 2014, 08:54:16 PM »
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If you don't count thousands and thousands of Irish emigres who fought in the USA (while most where born in Ireland)....two wars with Mexico, The American Civil War (many states had entire regiments of Irish), the Western Indian Wars, the Spanish-American War, and WWI...while THEIR descendants fought in WWII, Korea, Vietnam, and Middle East & Asian conflicts....then you'd be correct.

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Re: WTG Ireland!
« Reply #13 on: September 01, 2014, 01:01:42 AM »
Quote from: Lab Rat 3947 on August 31, 2014, 08:54:16 PM


and the my Irish side of my family was there for some of those.

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Re: WTG Ireland!
« Reply #14 on: September 01, 2014, 01:46:23 AM »
Quote from: MrGeezer on August 31, 2014, 04:53:04 PM
If you don't count thousands and thousands of Irish emigres who fought in the USA (while most where born in Ireland)....two wars with Mexico, The American Civil War (many states had entire regiments of Irish), the Western Indian Wars, the Spanish-American War, and WWI...while THEIR descendants fought in WWII, Korea, Vietnam, and Middle East & Asian conflicts....then you'd be correct.

Ireland has not fought a proper war in 300 years

They were Americans who fought in those wars

I don't start that I am of Irish decent gibberish, my lot came from Cork

I am more Irish than you,



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