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Originally Posted by Bubblehead1980
Ignorant and foolish describes people who celebrate a man who launched a war that left 800,000 people dead, millions more wounded physically, emotionally for life.
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You could say that for any man who started any war, the people behind the American revolution for one. Besides, as Steve has already pointed out, the Confederate forces fired the first shots.
And war was inevitable, between two great forces of movement, if it had not taken place under Lincoln, it would have under someone else.
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A man who launched an unjust war(slavery was on it's way out anyways) that left millions impoverished and wrecked the culture of a beautiful part of our country, which still suffers today in many ways thanks to northern aggression.
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The south only suffers because it refuses to acknowledge its defeat. There are people so stuck to 'The Lost Cause' that they have kept open the wounds of a war that ended 150 years ago. For goodness sake, World War One ended a hundred years ago and we've long since forgiven each other, only the shells of war remain to blight the landscape. The English Civil War has long since faded into memory and although its after-effects still echo within the British governmental system, there are not bands of parliamentarians or monarchists arguing at each other on the internet, or if there are they are few and far between.
For the love of God, let it go already.
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Ignorant and foolish are those who call Lincoln a great a man when he was nothing more than a tyrant who suspended habeas corpus jailed those who dared criticize him.Facts are stubborn things, it happened.
Sorry, this was not a great man, he was a tyrant and should be remembered as such.
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It was a civil war, they are rarely civil.
In short, this comes across as little more than butthurt over a war that you, your parents or your parents parents never fought in, if I, a Brit, can forgive Germany for the Second World War, if I can make friends with people of a country who killed one of my great-grandfathers and severely wounded the other, then you can certainly pull your head out of your backside and let the events of a war that took place over a hundred years ago be consigned where they belong.
The past.
Oh, and I need to end this with a Lincoln pic:
