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To: Gianni
By your reasoning, I can read what was said in 1990, and can tell you that the first Gulf war was all about oil.

It was about oil. We couldn't let Saddam control the world's oil supply. Oil was a good reason. But that doesn't apply unless you look to the ones that took us to war. Bush said it was about jobs. jobs=oil. The entities that took the South to secession said it was about slavery.

It's not the best analogy, since more than 5% of Americans who fought drove cars at the onset of our invasion.

Secession was for slavery but the war was fought for other reasons. For the North it was for preservation of the union. For most confederate soldiers, it was because they were defending their states. That makes the entities that pushed for secession extremely guilty in my eyes since very few fought for the reason that they drew the country into.

Not necessarily, especially if many people in Mass professed pro-life sentiment and still chose to pick up a rifle to defend their home.

No, I said those who specifically cited abortion as their cause, just as the south cited slavery as their cause for secession.

Of course, the argument hinges on the absurd notion that the declarations mention only slavery, which is false.

The Declarations state the slavery was the driving cause.

Then post where I did. American bashing? Cite it. Until then, you haven't the right.

If not your Hamilton quote, then post #76, where you want Northeasterners to not exist.

Now I hate people? Boy, you sure can take something and run with it, no?

Post #76 looks clear to me.

127 posted on 02/27/2004 8:08:18 AM PST by #3Fan (Kerry to POW-MIA activists: "You'll wish you'd never been born.". Link on my homepage.)
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To: #3Fan
I provided no Hamilton quote.

Post #76 is a continuance of moonman's joke; saying that he was probably the last conservative to leave the Northeast.

Everybody got it but you. If you feel stupid, it's because you should.

135 posted on 02/27/2004 9:32:44 AM PST by Gianni (Everyone's a closet economist.)
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