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To: Alberta's Child
BTW, the thing that made us right in the Revolutionary war.............. WE WON!!!!! The Confederacy lost, so they were wrong.
6 posted on 02/01/2002 2:06:13 PM PST by Texaggie79
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To: Texaggie79
BTW, the thing that made us right in the Revolutionary war.............. WE WON!!!!! The Confederacy lost, so they were wrong.

Are you arguing that the morality of a cause is determined by military victory? If so, that would make the communists of Vietnam "right," since they won that conflict.

22 posted on 02/01/2002 4:22:10 PM PST by timm22
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To: Texaggie79
BTW, the thing that made us right in the Revolutionary war.............. WE WON!!!!! The Confederacy lost, so they were wrong.

Yeah, so if Hitler had won WWII, the Holocaust would have been morally valid.

401 posted on 02/05/2002 1:16:32 PM PST by The Green Goblin
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To: Texaggie79
The Confederacy lost, so they were wrong.

Ay, yes - the old "Might-makes-Right" argument!

422 posted on 02/06/2002 3:54:21 AM PST by bimbo
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To: Texaggie79
BTW, the thing that made us right in the Revolutionary war.............. WE WON!!!!! The Confederacy lost, so they were wrong.

Nazi Germany won the war against Poland. I guess they were right.

462 posted on 02/06/2002 11:02:43 AM PST by Protagoras
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