Posted on 06/24/2012 5:54:41 PM PDT by Borges
Some interesting choices with a Number 2 that I never heard of.
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I’m a proud Yankee and even I think anyone who calls Robert E Lee a traitor is a moron. Even in the middle of a brutal civil war he was widely respected in the north.
Where’s the Rosenbergs?
I agree about R.E. Lee not needing to be on there. He DID resign his commission, so he wasn’t pulling the wool over anyone’s eyes. Back then, people thought of themselves more as what State they were from, than as Americans.
Ditto. Robert E. Lee was not a traitor
Robert E. Lee, was a decorated veteran in the Mexican War, showing his skill at the battle of Cerro Gordo, it was his genius idea that brought a great victory. He isn’t a traitor. He loved the country U.S.A, and felt horrible that the people in the North were agressors and came and attacked them in Virginia.
Lee doesn’t belong on this list, and how is Ezra Pound a worse traitor than the Rosenbergs or Alger Hiss? Of course the top slot should be reserved for Obama.
Anyone who knows anything about that period realizes that Lee was not a traitor. In those times the question of who your loyalty was first was a serious matter of dispute- state or federal. Remember the states existed before the federal govt. Remember that one of the main reasons that Jefferson Davis was never tried on treason was because there was serious belief that the Supreme Court would hold that a state could withdraw from the union.
Officers in the Federal Army were allowed to resign, so they could fight for the south. The Army and Naval Academies held a final formation so the students could say one last good bye to each other before they separated.
There was a sense of honor and a personal code that seems very alien to us now.
Also recognize that Robert E. Lee did more to ensure that ex-confederate soldiers came back into the union than any other confederate general (that I know of). He was held in high esteem by both sides before, during and after the civil war.
He was leader of an enemy army. That’s all it takes.
Rather, he failed to act up to his father’s level. His father accepted the federal government commission to put down a rebellion. Lee shirked, then hid behind a state commission, then supported an army which illegally occupied US territory and had fired on US forces. He applied for pardon, thus admitting his wrong, which was not issued until after he died.
It’s quite obvious someone forgot one ,,,, that is #1 B. H. 0.
I’m a Texan but have always held with you damn yanks in that war, but I agree, REL was a class act and an honorable soldier. Much better man than many of the Generals of the North.
(and I’ll leave it at that, I don’t care for the CW threads.)
Where the hell is Alger Hiss? Or the Rosenbergs? Or Morton Sobell? Or Judith Coplon?
The leaders at that time didn’t speak ill of each other publicly back then either. Lee himself said that he surrendered as much to Lincoln’s goodness as he did to Grant’s army.
Of course, they're not traitors--just innocent victims of McCarthyism.
Is my browser not working properly?I dont see any names and dont recognize some of them or an explanation why they were chosen.Who are they?
Here’s a compromise - we’ll keep “Lee” on the list, but change it to “Lee Harvey Oswald”.
A fellow I know not prone to rash accusations claimed that Oswald, while in the Soviet Union, explained to them how to shoot-down a U2.
Then, a few months later, down came Francis Gary Powers.
Works for me. Oswald was scum.
And where were the Rosenbergs? Give the Soviets the H-Bomb and not make the list?
I call BS on this. Looks like agenda-driven.
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