lincoln was dealing with a civil war. the enemy was right here in our country. there were southern sympathizers woven all through the north. a person could be a congressman and have southern sympathies. people like this would be in a position to help the enemy very much.

this is a totally different situation to our present situation in iraq. there are no iraqis in our congress.

there are simply folks who have different opinions on how to end the iraq conflict. nobody is setting out to kill our troops or ruin our country....although both of those things could be easily attributed to our president by folks who represent differing viewpoints.

in the civil war the south learned a huge amount of intelligence simply by reading the northern newspapers.

it was a very strange and vicious war.

tom w

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