[Peace] Letter to Editor

[Brian Dolinar]

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Anti-war critics could take aim at Lincoln
Tuesday May 30, 2006

Carl Estabrook (May 8 letter) predictably demagogued my letter. My
comment directed toward Estabrook referenced his hypocrisy in not
generating a ballot referendum calling for the impeachment of
President Clinton.

I am not impressed by whatever lip service Estabrook may have paid to
purported Clinton war crimes either on his radio show or through his
letters to the editor. It is action, not words, that counts.

If anti-war ideologues were consistent in their moral views, there was
no greater warmonger worthy of impeachment than Illinois' own Abraham
Lincoln.

President Lincoln "illegally and immorally" invaded other sovereign
states of the South using South Carolina's bloodless bombing of Fort
Sumter as a pretense for war. No war for cotton, Mr. Lincoln!

President Lincoln spied on Americans, he lied about not going to war
over slavery, and he suspended the Writ of Habeas Corpus. If he had
simply trusted in the Anaconda plan, war could have been averted.

These so-called facts prove Lincoln was the worst president of all
time who sent 618,000 American soldiers and untold tens of thousands
of civilians to their ignoble deaths. And for what? For the good of
America? To free the slaves? Bah, humbug.

No slave that ever lived was worth the life of one American soldier.
Not in our name.

I'll be accused by some of comparing apples to oranges, and maybe they
are right. Given the anti-war left's own purported concern for the
safety of American soldiers fighting "a bunch of radical Arabs," how
much more grievous was Lincoln's "evil" when it was Americans fighting
Americans? Lincoln lied, and Americans died!

HENRY SEITER Jr.

Urbana


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