[BroJoeK]

Here's my problem with this whole conversation over the Confederate Battle Flag, which I consider ridiculous -- the debate, not the flag!

Take a careful look at these photos below, what does every one have in common?

Powerful helicopters:

Long range cruise missile:

Bad-*ssed (for their time) tanks:

And even this tank?

US Ticonderoga class guided missile cruiser:

Answers:

1. The helicopters all have Indian names -- Apache, Black Hawk, Chinook, Tomahawk.
   In particular, Black Hawk was an Illinois area chief who conducted a long war against American troops, including briefly, a young Captain Abraham Lincoln.

2. Those bad-*ssed tanks (for their time) were named after Confederate Generals Lee and Stuart.

3. Everyone knows the M-1 Abrams tank is named after WWII US tanker, later General Creighton Abrams.
   But how many know who makes the big guns for that tank?
   That's right, the same company that made many of Col. Abrams' enemy Panther & Tiger tanks -- Rheinmetall of Düsseldorf, Germany.

4. Finally, a US Ticonderoga class guided missile cruiser (CG-62) named what?
   Right, USS Chancellorville, after RE Lee's greatest victory over Union forces.
   In this photo it fires a Tomahawk missile, and on board are two of the Navy's version of Black Hawk helicopters.

Does anyone get the picture?
We respect and honor our old enemies, especially those who showed the greatest qualities of courage, devotion and resourcefulness.
And that is the true symbolic meaning of the Confederate Battle Flag, the rest of it is just blathering nonsense.

Come on, people, who seriously has a problem with this?

[bert]

Damn yankees and their gullible associates

Purge the North east States and all will be ok

[BroJoeK]

Sorry — Tomahawk is a cruise missile, as shown below the helicopters, not a helicopter.

Proof read, proof read, then proof it again...

[jmacusa]

Point of fact the Grant and the Stuart just didn’t measure up to anything the Germans could throw at them. The Grant was removed fairly early from the ETO and sent to the Pacific.

[celmak]

We respect and honor our old enemies, especially those who showed the greatest qualities of courage, devotion and resourcefulness.

And that is the true symbolic meaning of the Confederate Battle Flag, the rest of it is just blathering nonsense.

Unfortunately, Conservatives of today get stuck with all the blathering nonsensical slaver charge which belongs to the Demorat Party's history. This lie is working in the minds of many of the young.

We must always make sure that people know it was the Demorat Party that was and is the Party of slavery - in which that Party has NEVER apologized for.

[Pelham]

You’re being far too reasonable and sound too much like the postwar vets who respected their old foes. Keep it up and the SPLC/Thaddeus Stevens auxiliaries will kick you out of their club.

[Partisan Gunslinger]

Good post!

[Team Cuda]

“We respect and honor our old enemies”.

I fail to see how buying German guns for our tanks is “respecting and honoring our enemies”. Do we have a USS Rommel? Perhaps we should name our next fighter the F-40 Goering? How about a bomber named the B-5 Tojo?

I really have no problem with individuals flying the Confederate flag. I find it extremely tacky, but that’s a personal opinion, and in no way should interfere with their rights to be tacky. I do have a problem with governmental entities flying it.

My main point, which seems to be lost in all of this, is anyone who attempts to whitewash WHY the South went to war, and claim it was about anything other than slavery. I just want people to actually read the history, and not hide behind States Rights (about anything other than slavery) or other such distractions