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You excuse Lincoln/Dahlgren as occuring before the end of the war.

Lincoln/Dahlgren? What was Lincoln/Dahlgren (and no exaggerations again please!)? Is this another of those things that was going to happen but magically didn't again, like rapes, hangings, and voter shootings?

The war did not end until May 1865. Some of the Confederate forces surrendered in April 1865, but others were very much still active. The end of the war is when the LAST forces surrender, NOT the first.

Booth knew the war was over and therefore it was murder. Assassins will burn in hell.

Who said Booth was great?

I'm asking. I've yet to see you denounce his actions. nolu chan certainly was taking glee in his actions.

YOU justify the slaughter of civilians as justifiable as war measures, Booth obviously agreed with your position.

I justify the burning of supplies in Sherman's case. In Ike's and Truman's, sure. Booth knew the war was over.

Bin Laden should be covered in pig fat, castrated, and dumped out of an airlplane cruising at 35,000 feet without a parachute.

But he killed those that you hate so much. Why the inconsistency? Were you exaggerating about your hate for northerners also?

Booth was wrong to kill Lincoln. Sherman [*spit*] was wrong to target civilians. Lincoln was wrong to target Richmond, President Davis and the Confederate cabinet.

But he [bin Laden] killed those that you hate so much. Why the inconsistency? Were you exaggerating about your hate for northerners also?

Bin Laden killed Lincoln and members of the Union Army? Did he invent time travel?

Osama bin Idiot killed Americans, of which I am one. You know nothing about me, whether or not I had family or friends killed by these fruitcakes. Please refrain from your inane, unfounded suppositions.

Booth did not know the war was over. The principle actors did not even know the war was over. What Lincoln had, what Lincoln was celebrating, was the honerable surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia.

Lincoln's greatest fear was that the country would be ripped asunder by partisan warfare and guerrilla attacks for years to come. He did not know the war was over.

Davis pressed Johnston to take his army Westward into the trans-Mississippi where the remaining confederates could regroup and rally. He did not know the war was over.

News of the surrender of the ANV would take weeks to make it into the western theater and the deep south, especially since Sherman had destroyed any mechanism for communication.

You are mistaken about the facts.