Subj : Re: WWIII
To : Roy Witt
From : Bill McGarrity
Date : Sun Aug 17 2014 05:23 pm
-=> On 08-17-14 12:19, Roy Witt wrote to Bill McGarrity <=-
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
All your #'s can be compared to the game of baseball where one pitcher gives up
15 hits in a game yet still walks away with the victory. It's the final score
that counts.
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.
Shit happens...
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 Southern
sections
RW> of the United States developed along different lines. The South
RW> remained a predominantly agrarian economy while the North became more
RW> and more industrialized. Different social cultures and political
RW> beliefs developed.
RW> All of this led to disagreements on issues such as taxes, tariffs and
RW> internal improvements as well as states rights versus federal 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.
Did I not explain all that in my original post (the one where you edited out
the economic reasoning). You play the game like FauxEntertainment... edit the
shit out of a story to make them seem intelligent.
BM> Slavery. Now unless you feel men can be owned by another, this is
BM> fairly self explainatory.
RW> Moron.
So you own slaves Roy?
BM> The good old boys
RW> aka Democrats, no Southerun Democrats, who are now against all that
RW> preaching they did back then.
And the baton was passed to the southern Republicans of today. Actually, ALL
republicans fit that image.