[Calpernia]

Congressmen who willfully take actions during wartime that damage morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled, or hanged.

— President Abraham Lincoln



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[Calpernia]

It is an indication of the sorry state of our polity that some legislators are so intent on justifying their opposition to the conflict in Iraq that they persist in claiming then-Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith and his organization engaged in intelligence skullduggery, misleading them and the nation in the run-up to the invasion in 2003. The most prominent of these are the newly installed chairmen of the Senate Armed Services and Intelligence committees, Carl Levin and Jay Rockefeller, respectively. The Wall Street Journal has dubbed the former "Senator Ahab" for his "obsessive" pursuit of this white whale of a story about "politicized" intelligence. I guess we should call the latter Ishmael.



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[JWinNC]

good article

[AmericaUnited]

Let's ask Obama (The Next Lincoln) if he is going to implement 'his mentor's' policy...

[A Strict Constructionist]

"Congressmen who willfully take actions during wartime that damage morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled, or hanged.

— President Abraham Lincoln "

Pelosi to democrats. Ignore it he was a Republican.

[bvw]

Congressmen who willfully take actions during wartime that damage morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled, or hanged.

— President Abraham Lincoln

Happy Birthday, Mr. Lincoln! (.. one day late)

[Gritty]

[IamConservative]

The fact we entered into military conflict without actually declaring war leaves the door wide open for dissenters.

[webstersII]

If you want to use Lincoln as a good example, then don't forget that he suspended habaeus corpus during the CW.

He put several people in jail just for speaking their minds. Lincoln was no fan of free speech or certain essential liberties.

Anybody here care to see what mischief Hillary could do with the same power?

[redgolum]

Technically, there has been no declaration of war, so there can be no treason trials.

[jveritas]

The worst and most enduring consequence of the Vietnam war is that it had legitimized the giving aid and comfort to the enemy. Since the Vietnam war, giving air and comfort to the enemy has not be confronted anymore, but rather has been hailed and cherished in the left wing liberal circles.

[jveritas]

The worst and most enduring consequence of the Vietnam war is that it had legitimized the giving of aid and comfort to the enemy. Since the Vietnam war, giving aid and comfort to the enemy has not be confronted anymore, but rather has been hailed and cherished in the left wing liberal circles.

[rbosque]

Filthy treasonous demoRAT bump.

[Buddee]

This quote, "Congressmen who willfully take actions during war time that damage morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled and hanged."...is completely invented. Lincoln never said it. This “quote” was first attributed to Lincoln by J. Michael Waller in Insight Magazine, in a 2003 article revealingly entitled: Democrats Usher in an Age of Treason. But as Waller himself now admits, the quote attributed to Lincoln is completely fraudulent. Waller wrote in an e-mail to FactCheck.org (h/t William Wolfrum):

The supposed quote in question is not a quote at all, and I never intended it to be construed as one. It was my lead sentence in the article that a copy editor mistakenly turned into a quote by incorrectly inserting quotation marks.

It was Waller, in The Washington Times’ Insight Magazine, urging that anti-war Congressmen be hanged—not Abraham Lincoln.