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To: fieldmarshaldj
Just like slavery was ended and the Union saved in spite of Lincoln, not because of him, hmm ? You have a very strange mindset, sir.

Lincoln managed to do that AND work with a democratically elected Congress AND operate within the guidelines of the Constitution AND hold an open election where he stood a very real chance of losing. Like I said, Pinochet was the very antithesis of Abraham Lincoln.

96 posted on 12/03/2006 4:05:58 PM PST by Non-Sequitur
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To: Non-Sequitur

One could point out the lengths to which Lincoln had to go to to accomplish his goals. You'll note the South was not a part of those he worked with, democratically-speaking, nor was the suspension of the writ of habeas corpus exactly "Constititutional." As you've been told repeatedly, he understood it was not a mutual suicide pact. It was a very messy situation, far more so than anything Chile experienced, but it had to be done, or what could've emerged would've been a far greater disaster. Pinochet did a cleaner job than Lincoln, but both were heroes, nonetheless, despite your sleazy innuendoes and comparisons to bonafide monsters.


103 posted on 12/03/2006 4:13:02 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Cheney X -- Destroying the Liberal Democrat Traitors By Any Means Necessary -- Ya Dig ? Sho 'Nuff.)
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