I may be wrong, but I thought that slavery did nto become an issue in the Civil War until after the Emancipation Proclamation - which, if memory serves me correctly - only freed the slaves in the states that had seceded.
I also remember being taught that the _start_ of the Civil War was based on socio-economic issues between North and South (I am not sure if slavery falsl into that category or not). Not claiming any of this as fact - just trying to remember from history class. (You would think, with where I live now, I would be more up on Civil War history - I do plan to rectify that, though) On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 9:51 AM, Medic <[email protected]> wrote: > > C'mon Larry, everyone knows that civil war was about healthcare and not > becoming socialist. It had nothing to do with slavery, which by the way > wasn't really slavery, it was simply an inequality in the pay structure for > black workers. > > > > > On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Larry C. Lyons <[email protected]>wrote: > >> >> Nice bit of historical revisionism there. Lets see after that are you >> going to rewrite the history of the Civil War, like the latest >> Republican darling Virginia governor McDonnell has done? >> >> >> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/07/AR2010040705100.html?sub=AR >> >> On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 9:06 AM, Sam <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > I don't remember anyone calling him soft on terror, I do remember many >> > calling Bush evil. Obama is just continuing with the Bush strategy and >> > getting called a hero. >> > >> > You mention drone attacks as a signal Obama is tougher on terror than >> > Bush but is it that simple? Is the bombing helping or making things >> > worse. Could we have done more bombings two years ago? >> > >> > Seems to me it's an illusion, step up bombing, keep the wars going but >> > make nice with terrorists and beg them to be nice. It's not working, >> > the whole "The world will stop hating us" plan failed. Now the >> > question is what's next, does he have a plan B or will he just keep up >> > with the Bush policies? >> > >> > On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 12:30 AM, Judah McAuley <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> >> > >> >> Certainly a ballsy move, though if what has been said about this >> >> particular guy is true, it seems like the order would naturally follow >> >> given what else the admin has done. Amazing to think that there have >> >> been more CIA missile strikes in Obama's first year in office than in >> >> the last 3 years of Bush's tenure combined. I'm not entirely sure that >> >> the people we are involving ourselves with in Afghanistan, Pakistan >> >> and Yemen (to name a few) are entirely the wisest choice but I'm >> >> astounded that people can actually think that the Obama admin is "soft >> >> on terror". >> >> >> > >> > >> >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:315272 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
