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Union troops used Confederate officers as human shields
newsleader ^
| April 24, 2004
| Terry Shulman
Posted on 04/27/2004 6:28:54 AM PDT by stainlessbanner
Edited on 05/07/2004 9:28:15 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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Saddam Hussein's devilish practice of using human shields isn't exactly new. It was pioneered by an American, in fact, during the last year of the Civil War.
"Your officers, now in my hands, will be placed by me under your fire, as an act of retaliation," Union departmental commander Gen. John G. Foster wrote his Southern counterpart in an edict, and with that a sordid new standard was set in the conduct of war.
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To: stainlessbanner
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posted on
04/27/2004 6:30:52 AM PDT
by
cyborg
To: stainlessbanner
That's so 2 centuries ago.
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posted on
04/27/2004 6:31:57 AM PDT
by
BrooklynGOP
(www.logicandsanity.com)
To: stainlessbanner
Civil War arguments are always entertaining here...I wonder who will win this time? Confederates or the Yanks?
To: cyborg
:^)
To: stainlessbanner
"Your officers, now in my hands, will be placed by me under your fire, as an act of retaliation," Union departmental commander Gen. John G. Foster wrote his Southern counterpart in an edict, and with that a sordid new standard was set in the conduct of war.The b*****d.
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posted on
04/27/2004 6:37:54 AM PDT
by
4CJ
(||) OUR sins put Him on that cross - HIS love for us kept Him there. (||)
To: stainlessbanner
once standwatie shows up, 'you know who' won't be far behind... A girl has to be prepared! :)
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posted on
04/27/2004 6:38:50 AM PDT
by
cyborg
To: stainlessbanner
War is hell, dude.
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posted on
04/27/2004 6:39:33 AM PDT
by
Alouette
(Pray for the IDF and the USA--see my profile page)
To: 4ConservativeJustices
I read this yesterday I think. Have to admit I didn't realize it was so well organized. Learning something new about the crimes of the union on a daily basis of late it seems
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posted on
04/27/2004 6:41:20 AM PDT
by
billbears
(Deo Vindice.)
To: stainlessbanner
We won You lost Get over it. </joking mode>
To: 4ConservativeJustices
A lady can't say that, 4CJ --- but I heartily concur.
To: billbears
Learning something new about the crimes of the union on a daily basis of late it seemsMy friend, what amazes me is that so many ADMIRE them for their despicable practices.
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posted on
04/27/2004 6:51:55 AM PDT
by
4CJ
(||) OUR sins put Him on that cross - HIS love for us kept Him there. (||)
To: billbears
You would be surprised at how much the families of the Confederate States of America still resent what happened to their kin and their land. It would make it very difficult for them to seriously care what happened to some of the more egregiously involved states should they ever be attacked. They have not forgotten or forgiven.
To: varina davis
A lady can't say that, 4CJ --- but I heartily concur.No ma'am, you couldn't, and never should. There are times when a man simply has to voice what has been left unsaid.
Respectfully, your humble and obedient servant,
4CJ
Deo vindice.
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posted on
04/27/2004 6:54:07 AM PDT
by
4CJ
(||) OUR sins put Him on that cross - HIS love for us kept Him there. (||)
To: stainlessbanner
And after the Battle of Selma (spring 1865), the yankees forced Confederate POWs to march over a mine field to "clear" it.
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posted on
04/27/2004 6:54:44 AM PDT
by
Martin Tell
(I will not be terrified or Kerrified.)
To: stainlessbanner
I read the Bible, so I'm not surprised by anything people do to one another. I could throw up, but who would that help?
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posted on
04/27/2004 6:55:59 AM PDT
by
Tax-chick
(I was swimming with dolphins whispering imaginary numbers in the fourth dimension.)
To: stainlessbanner
...horrible, but it cut both ways in that some practices that would get you shot as a spy (fighting "out of uniform" or in the other sides uniform) were regularly done by cavalry troopers on both sides. Eisenhower shot a bunch of Germans (Bulge 1944) for that one.
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posted on
04/27/2004 6:57:37 AM PDT
by
Tallguy
(Cannot rate this Reserve Freepers fitness: Not observed on this thread.)
To: All
I view these posts as attempts to damage American pride and to establish moral equivalency between the US and its enemies. Note that such historical revelations are never used to highlight the savagery, barbarism, atrocities and genocide committed by our enemies. Attemps to bring us down to their level will ultimately fail because their level is far below anything we were capable of even 150 years ago.
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posted on
04/27/2004 7:00:57 AM PDT
by
BadAndy
(Specializing in unnecessarily harsh comments.)
To: stainlessbanner
"...pioneered by an American"?
Human shields were never used by anyone else in the history of warfare?
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posted on
04/27/2004 7:07:29 AM PDT
by
Let's Roll
(Kerry is a self-confessed unindicted war criminal or ... a traitor to his country in a time of war)
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