But can you really imagine a war ON our soil (in the Southern states anyway) where 600,000 lives were lost, nearly a million injured, where property values for Southerners were destroyed ?—that is the war Lincoln fought. Mr Paul, no matter what else you think of him, has a point. The country’s unity was bought by blood at the point of the bayonet—TEN TIMES and more the number of soldier deaths than in Vietnam. That’s the man Lincoln was - a man willing to prosecute a war of enormous proportions.
He was a savage beast, similar to that thing squatting in the Wh right now.