Granted, the Confederate flag's true meaning (an army's battle flag) has been hijacked by the winners (the Northern Army of Aggression.)

Keeping that in mind, and the fact that historians (not all, but most) insist on called the Northern War of Aggression a "Civil War," it's not hard to see what the fuss is all about.

A "Civil War" is actually a war started by a division of a nation intent on taking control of the "Central Federal Government."

A war of "Secession" is a war in which a group of people (Southern States in this case) chose to leave the Union and start their own country. Lincoln clearly was a murderer in this instance when he caused the death of thousands of Confederate and Union soldiers in this successful attempt to maintain power.

The so-called "Civil War" was not about slavery (which is despicable in any form) and slavery was abolished by Lincoln anyway, Congress did so a couple of years after the "Civil War."

So, Huckabee didn't do anything wrong, except be a wacko religious freak.

"Lincoln clearly was a murderer in this instance when he caused the death of thousands of Confederate and Union soldiers in this successful attempt to maintain power."

1. I agree Huckabee is a wacko (I'm Catholic, and he is rather Anti-Catholic).

2. I agree about state's rights.

3. However, the South did fire first upon the North, and did invade the North first, so its not as simple as Lincoln leaving them alone.

America - love it or leave it! You secessionist bastard!

Oooh, that's fun to say. I don't oft get the chance.

I also had no idea Abe Lincoln was a one-man fighting machine!

A lot of words from Mr. Hitchins over a sound bite that we didn't hear in context of the entire discussion. We don't know what lead up to it, proceeded it or what followed it.

We just saw the same thing with Mr. Clinton's oft repeated "fairy tale" comment which when viewed/heard in context was much different than what was portrayed by certain talk show hosts.

As the well-respected professional journalist he is, I only wish Mr. Hitchins had delved further to get the entire quote in context, cite it, then offer his opinion. Then we would have had an editiorial piece really worth commenting on.

He was a one-man fighting machine

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The Confederacy fired the first shots, the Civil War WAS about slavery, and Lincoln did in fact free nearly all the slaves.