[Ronly Bonly Jones]

as though waging an unnecessary war that killed 620,000 Americans was >>

Okay. I will put on a Confederate uniform, force you to grow my cotten for the rest of your life without salary or benefits, then sell your wife to work on a sugar plantation in Louisiana so that you never see her again, and force your daughters to service me every night.

THEN you can tell me that the war was "unnecessary."

Geez. Some people have TOO many chromosomes for their own good....

[Bonaparte]

"...without salary or benefits..."

Not to endorse the peculiar institution, but aren't food, clothes, lodging and medical attention benefits?

[GOPcapitalist]

THEN you can tell me that the war was "unnecessary."

I'll happily tell you it was unnecessary since the man who waged it, Abe Lincoln, adamantly denied on many occassions that slavery had anything to do with his purposes in that war. That slavery was abolished was a political consequence of the war that Lincoln undertook during that war in order to gain its political benefits. It was never a purpose of waging the war though.