Greetings Bill!   
      
    BK>>>  The better question would be, should a country not kill thousand   
    BK>>>  of their own people as the price for freeing millions from   
    BK>>>  slavery?   
      
    RW>>> As long as they're Yankees, no.   
      
    BM>> Last I heard it was Yankees: 1 the South: 0   
      
    RW>> Ask yourself, how many more Yanks died than Rebels?   
      
    RW>> Dead Yanks 596,670: South 490,309   
      
    RW>> Served: Yanks 1,532,278, South 591,810 i.e. a little under 3:1   
      
    RW>> Eligible, but ran off to Canada: Yanks: 2,430,294, South: none   
      
    BM> All your #'s can be compared to the game of baseball where one   
    BM> pitcher gives up 15 hits in a game yet still walks away with the   
    BM> victory. It's the final score that counts.   
      
   I concur with the former, but the final score has no meaning when the   
   'battle' had so many shining moments. Take the battles fought in the north   
   before the tide of turned when the North put more people on the   
   battlefield than the South.   
      
    RW>> Even with close to total conscription, the South could not match the   
    RW>> North's numerical strength.  Southerners also stood a significantly   
    RW>> greater chance of being killed, wounded, or captured, especially if   
    RW>> they were old men, women and teenage civilians.   
      
    BM> Shit happens...   
      
   Yanks die.   
      
    RW>>> PS - The Civil War wasn't about slavery...but it sure turned out to   
    RW>>> be a crutch for y'all.   
      
    BM>> Don't you mean "totally" about slavery?   
    ay withRW>> Get yer historicathe l facts straight: The Northern and   
    ay withRW>> Southern   
      
    BM> sections   
      
   Weren't sections like a railroad construction crew.   
      
    RW>> of the United States developed along different lines. The South   
    RW>> remained a predominantly agrarian economy while the North became   
    RW>> more and more industrialized. Different social cultures and   
    RW>> political beliefs developed.   
      
    RW>> All of this led to disagreements on issues such as taxes, tariffs   
    RW>> and internal improvements as well as states rights versus federal   
    RW>> rights.   
      
    RW>> Slavery was an excuse to make war by the Yanks 'after the war   
    RW>> started'...   
      
    BM>> The basis behind all southern contention was how the slave trade   
    BM>> centered around states rights, economic freedoms and slavery itself.   
      
    RW>> Wrong, see above.   
      
    BM> Did I not explain all that in my original post (the one where you   
    BM> edited out the economic reasoning).   
      
   Economics was the reason for the war, not slavery, Moot point.   
      
    BM> You play the game like FauxEntertainment...   
      
   It's a wonder you havn't broken that mirror with all of your faux claims   
   to victory.   
      
    BM> edit the shit out of a story to make them seem intelligent.   
      
   Like you do, not likely.   
      
    BM>> Slavery.  Now unless you feel men can be owned by another, this is   
    BM>> fairly self explainatory.   
      
    RW>> Moron.   
      
    BM> So you own slaves Roy?   
      
   Why would I, I don't own any cotton plantations. But owning slaves   
   wouldn't be out of the question if I did, in 1860.   
      
    BM>> The good old boys   
      
    RW>> aka Democrats, no Southerun Democrats, who are now against all that   
    RW>> preaching they did back then.   
      
    BM> And the baton was passed to the southern Republicans of today.   
      
   Not really. They had to overcome the morons who led them down this path.   
      
    BM> Actually, ALL republicans fit that image.   
      
   The Republacans that will be sitting in the Senate next year and the other   
   one who will be living in the WH in 2016.   
      
       Have a day!   
      
   PS - I'm not a Republican...FYI   
      
      
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