Ron Paul on the Civil War...

He says every other nation abolished slavery without a civil war. We had the bloodiest war in American History with 600,000 men dying. We could have bought all the slaves and freed them for a cost cheaper than those American lives.

I never thought of this before but I agree! No more useless wars.
P.S. Abe Lincoln's unprecedented war-time powers were used as precedent for the rest of American history: To Increase presidential power by stealth.
THE FOUNDING FATHERS wanted the executive branch to be the WEAKEST of the three branches of government. Abe Lincoln set a dangerous precedent that has evolved into what we have today: Accelerated with Bush because of 9-11, we now have a dictatorship.



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