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To: WhiskeyPapa; Non-Sequitur
"That was the same Union that he urged an 'immoveable attachment'to"

But I think he would have been absolutely revulsed by the notion that such attachment would have been maintained by force.

"I guess I just wonder how they could respect him more than you do. Didn't he do anything noteworthy in your eyes?"

Don't you bother to read before you respond? I told you, I have great respect for George Washington, I just don't believe that he was infallible. So both of the premises of your questions are false. Like Non-Seq, you continually set up straw men.

150 posted on 11/04/2002 11:35:38 AM PST by Aurelius
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To: Aurelius
Leave me out of this, please. It's between you and Walt.
151 posted on 11/04/2002 11:39:49 AM PST by Non-Sequitur
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To: Aurelius
"That was the same Union that he urged an 'immoveable attachment'to"

But I think he would have been absolutely revulsed by the notion that such attachment would have been maintained by force.

I-M-M-O-V-E-A-B-L-E

He was ready to use force against rebellion in Pennsylvania. And in his proclamation on such, he called the action of the rebels there treason.

Walt

156 posted on 11/04/2002 11:49:46 AM PST by WhiskeyPapa
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To: Aurelius
Don't you bother to read before you respond? I told you, I have great respect for George Washington...

For what? Holding slaves?

Walt

157 posted on 11/04/2002 11:50:51 AM PST by WhiskeyPapa
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