[nolu chan]

I'm sorry I forgot to add [/sarcasm]. I thought it was obvious.

[n-s] "But no, moving troops around Boston was not an act of war on the part of the British. Hostilities were initiated by the colonists themselves."

The British moved around more than Boston. They encountered some trouble in New Jersey.

Please. If your army shoots at mine and mine shoots back at yours, we are both engaged in acts of war.

You sound like Clinton. We commited and act of war but they did not.

Maybe we can just go Irish and call it "The Troubles."

[Non-Sequitur]

Please. If your army shoots at mine and mine shoots back at yours, we are both engaged in acts of war.

Since you want to put it that way then can we agree that it was the southern army that fired at the U.S. Army and the U.S. Army fired back? If so then how can you condemn President Lincoln for not declaring war when war was, in fact, forced on him?

You sound like Clinton. We commited and act of war but they did not. <p. Or Bush?