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2004-04-28 Home Front: WoT
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Posted by Sherry 2004-04-28 12:07:23 PM|| || Front Page|| [11128 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 "If I were to read, much less answer all the attacks made on me, this office might as well as be closed for any other business.

I do the best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said about me won't amount to anything.

If the end brings me out wrong, then ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference." Abraham Lincoln
Posted by jawa 2004-04-28 12:23:11 PM||   2004-04-28 12:23:11 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 If that idiot JB Hood hadn't skedadled off to Nashville I still be holding Willie T. off.
Posted by J Johnston 2004-04-28 12:27:05 PM||   2004-04-28 12:27:05 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 jawa, I wish Bush would say something like that.
Posted by Damn_Proud_American  2004-04-28 12:34:05 PM|| [http://brighterfuture.blogspot.com]  2004-04-28 12:34:05 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 General Johnston,

My compliments, sir. We did not lose that war. We are merely waiting for supplies.

Posted by P.G.T. Beauregard 2004-04-28 1:34:23 PM||   2004-04-28 1:34:23 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 "General Beauregard, I regret that I have not written sooner. You know how difficult it is to keep in touch when on the march. Hope to see you soon."
Gen. W.T. Sherman
Posted by Steve  2004-04-28 3:02:15 PM||   2004-04-28 3:02:15 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 You can win the war and lose the peace. Dont cut and run like you did in 1876.

Anonymous Reconstruction era Southern Black.
Posted by Liberalhawk 2004-04-28 3:09:37 PM||   2004-04-28 3:09:37 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 You're right LH. But there weren't enough troops in the world to enforce a 1965 world view in 1865.
Posted by Shipman 2004-04-28 3:46:57 PM||   2004-04-28 3:46:57 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 a lot of historians would dispute that Ship. We werent losing militarily(in 1876, I mean), there was a failure of will in a North that was increasingly sympathetic to Southern racial views.
Posted by Liberalhawk 2004-04-28 3:49:51 PM||   2004-04-28 3:49:51 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 That's what I meant LH.
Posted by Shipman 2004-04-28 5:33:10 PM||   2004-04-28 5:33:10 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 It wasn't just Southern racial views gaining currency; it was generalized 'compassion fatigue' after 10 years and the Republicans selling out to gain Florida for Hayes over Tilden.

I was thinking of Honest Abe today when some twit on NPR breathlessly claimed that no American citizens had ever been denied Habeas Corpus. They were discussing Padilla and the Saudi goof held in the brig as 'enemy combatants'. The statement went unchallenged.

Of course, Abe suspended Habeas Corpus and locked up many 'Copperheads' (Southern sympathizers).

We got over it.
Posted by JDB 2004-04-28 5:35:35 PM||   2004-04-28 5:35:35 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Date: September 11, 2007
To: WoT Commander, John Weasely Clarke
CC: CINC, President John F'in Kerry
Subject: Insubordination to Idiots in Charge

You commenced your cowardly and contemptable persecution of me soon after the battle of Shiloh, and you have kept it up ever since. You did it because I reported to Richmond UN HQ facts, while you reported damned lies. You robbed me of my command in Kentucky, and gave it to one of your personal favorites -- men that I armed and equipped from the enemies of our country. In a spirit of revenge and spite, because I would not fawn upon you as others did, you drove me into West Tennessee Saudi in the winter of 1862 2006, with a second brigade I had organized, with improper arms and without sufficient ammunition, although I had made repeated applications for the same. You did it to ruin me and my career.

When in spite of all this I returned with my command, well equipped by captures, you began your work of spite and persecution, and have kept it up. And now this second brigade, organized and equipped without thanks to you or the government, a brigade which has won a reputation for successful fighting second to none in the army, taking advantage of your position as the commanding general in order to further humiliate me, you have taken these brave men from me.

I have stood your meanness as long as I intend to. You have played the part of a damned scoundrel, and are a coward, and if you were any part of a man I would slap your jaws and force you to resent it.

You may as well not issue any more orders to me, for I will not obey them. And I will hold you personally responsible for any further indignities you try to inflict upon me.

You have threatened to arrest me for not obeying you orders promptly. I dare you to do it, and I say that if you ever again try to interfere with me or cross my path, it will be at the peril of your life.

I will reduce Mekkah to rubble and take the oilfields forthwith. This required campaign has demanded your attention and action for far longer than a sane man should have to tolerate. Do not test my patience nor my love for freedom ever again.
Posted by Lt. Col. Allen B. West (reinstated) 2004-04-28 7:18:37 PM||   2004-04-28 7:18:37 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 Shit. Change Shiloh to Teheran and Kentucky to Damascus. Apologies. Shit!
Posted by Lt. Col. Allen B. West (reinstated) 2004-04-28 7:21:10 PM||   2004-04-28 7:21:10 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 JDB: The left likes the Constitution as long as you don't try to enforce the "mean" parts. Section 9, Clause 2 of the US Constitution:

The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it.

The Constitution is silent on who may suspend habeas corpus, but then the if you gotta do it, it's probably got to be done in a hurry -- no time for deliberations. Bottom line: The US government has the power to suspend habeas corpus when attacked.
Posted by 11A5S 2004-04-28 7:58:37 PM||   2004-04-28 7:58:37 PM|| Front Page Top

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