Yeah, there was another bogus war...

(But, Boberdz, how about the sinking of the Maine???)

Yeah, how's ya'll like that Gulf of Tonkin episode... How's that turn out???

As for Lincoln???

Given the war, the reconstruction (occupation) and a century of Jim Crow, he blew it...

The entire civilized world was one country at a time abolishing slavery starting in the 1830s... Slavery was on its way out... I don't believe it can be argued otherwise... The cost of the war wasn't worth the price, IMHO...

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