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>Neocons Are Unhinged  - Tom DiLorenzo - lewRockwell
I certainly don't want to be pulled into this Lincoln thing, since his enforcement of the draft really irked me, but I don't see how he could have ended slavery without a war (and the South really did start it). The South was committed to leaving the Union in the event of Lincoln's election and promptly did so, despite nothing on Lincoln's part to indicate that he was about to issue any kind of proclamation freeing slaves which would have had no effect anyway.

We must agree, and I went over DiLorenzo's previous articles this morning, that he really has never condemned the South or the odious institution of slavery. I'll say no more about this as my main concern is getting the Nation back to a gold standard and debating that issue. Thanks for the response.



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Beginning of the headline :When Obama went before the United Nations on September 12, 2012 to declare that the Syrian regime "must end" and threatened U.S. military intervention to achieve that end he did not cite the U.S. Constitution as his authority. No American president ever does when threatening military intervention. Instead, he invoked the rhetoric of Abraham Lincoln or what the late Professor Mel Bradford called ... Read More
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