If the US civil war was fought today...

[Sprayber]

Originally posted by Dr Strangelove
I would do this because anyone with any sense should realize that everyone who has ever owned a slave has gone to hell, unless he repented and freed the slave with compensation prior to his death. Of course, those who fought to preserve slavery were equally hell- bound. Defeating the slave-owners immoral government then would have been a fight for the very souls of the white people of the South.

How about the signers of the declaration of indpendence and the constitiution and all those that fought for it in the early years? They all made compromises that ensured that those people remained in bondage for nearly a century more.

[Whoha]

Well Albert, Bush isn't a protectionist, thats about the only difference.

[Capt Dizle]

Originally posted by Dr Strangelove
I'd fight for the souls of my Southern neighbors by going North and showing Union industry how to build tanks, planes, breech loading artillery with exploding shells, modern ammunition propellants, machine guns, and assault rifles. The war would be quick and decisive. I would do this because anyone with any sense should realize that everyone who has ever owned a slave has gone to hell, unless he repented and freed the slave with compensation prior to his death. Of course, those who fought to preserve slavery were equally hell- bound. Defeating the slave-owners immoral government then would have been a fight for the very souls of the white people of the South.

If I thought for one second that you were serious I'd call you a sumbeech.

Using this line of thinking I am surprised you are not out warring on the evil forces of abortion. While it might be debatable whether or not holding slaves would yield a ticket to hell, there isn't any doubt concerning any mother, nurse or doctor involved in the murder of innocent unborn children.

[Capt Dizle]

Originally posted by Ramo
I'd fight for an independent black state.

Moron. Haven't you heard of Liberia? No? What about that other black state, Welfare?

[Hueij]

Originally posted by jimmytrick


If I thought for one second that you were serious I'd call you a sumbeech.

Using this line of thinking I am surprised you are not out warring on the evil forces of abortion. While it might be debatable whether or not holding slaves would yield a ticket to hell, there isn't any doubt concerning any mother, nurse or doctor involved in the murder of innocent unborn children.

Oh god, another Ned/Winston. Get the **** out of this thread

Edit: ****... I didn't read his next post. I really feel like pulling a KH here.

[Capt Dizle]

And just as we whipped UConn yesterday, so shall we whip the Eagles today.

The South: the morally and athletically superior region.

[Capt Dizle]

And just so you'll hear here first: Carolina's Edwards will finish in the first two spots in Iowa. I'll not predict a victory only because I want you yanks to really suffer. First, consider it. Then, have it shoved up your kazoo.

[Capt Dizle]

Some folk down heah say the only good Yank is a dead Yank. I doan agree. Dead Yanks stink.

[Ted Striker]

you guys may have bigger guys to put on the line but we got more stuff to blow you up with

[St Leo]

I think a lot of the problems US faces are caused by its size. It would be a much more liberal and enlightened place if there were fifty fights for liberty and enlightenment being fought instead of just one.

[Sava]

Originally posted by Albert Speer
The Republican party of 1860 was dominated by Protestant fundamentalists and big business capitalists who happened to be pro-tariffs.

lincoln was quite a moderate and quite adverse to capitalism... "these capitalists exist and act in concert in order to fleece the people..." -- Lincoln...

try again speer... get a clue.

[ravagon]

Originally posted by Dr Strangelove
I'd fight for the souls of my Southern neighbors by going North and showing Union industry how to build tanks, planes, breech loading artillery with exploding shells, modern ammunition propellants, machine guns, and assault rifles.

That's a rather impressive resume.
Sufficiently qualified to design and engineer all of the above using 1860's technology would be an astounding feat indeed. Even today there wouldn't be anybody else in the world even remotely capable of such.

[Capt Dizle]

Originally posted by jimmytrick
And just as we whipped UConn yesterday, so shall we whip the Eagles today.

The South: the morally and athletically superior region.

[Ben Kenobi]

Using this line of thinking I am surprised you are not out warring on the evil forces of abortion

It's an interesting argument when you think about it. I would argue that the two are not the same because there are still peaceful means of resolving the abortion dispute, whereas this may not be true of the civil war.

However, if we were able to go back in time and change history, would this necessarily be the case? Was the civil war inevitable?

[MrFun]

I just love the smell of emancipation in the morning . . . . . . .