The word tariff is never mentioned. The word tax appears once, in reference to a tax on slave owners. Cotton was never mentioned either.
Right. And the phrase "weapons of mass destruction" appeared everywhere in the run up to the Iraq war. Yet we are still there, which proves that the real cause was the neo-con fantasy of the democratic peace.
There is no question the slavery issue was used to heat up passions on the eve of the war. But the real cause of the war was the tariff.
Sadamm and every Muslim in Iraq was a weapon of Mass destruction. Plus Sadamm moved his wmds to Syria.