17: Gerry Adams: The Troubles, Margaret Thatcher, and the IRA
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The Struggle Over Prisoners
I was in prison for some of these folks. These are our friends. I lived 30 years under military occupation. How long were you in the British Army? Very short time. You were very smart. And thankfully we're now out of all of that. But it isn't what most people think of as a war. When I guess maybe this listeners will feel that these weren't legitimate combatants. Well, I mean, I feel I was a legitimate combatant. But I never went to war. It doesn't matter whether it was accidentally or not. That's even more regrettable. The entire struggle over to prisoners with such high stakes. We need to learn the lessons of it because
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