Lilred's Rant of the Week...dignity of our armed forces

[skeet]

Well I'm gonna just say a few things. Being a southerner by birth and the grace of God... The south was fighting ..not for slavery, as it was a dying thing...but for the right to do as they felt was right for their state. Constitutionally the States actually held the real power in the USA..until the North decided that was no longer true. Why should any Southerner have to apologize. Personally I feel slavery was wrong. It WAS the law of the land, though. And it WAS a completely different world than what we now live in. If the Civil War was about Slavery...why did Lincoln free the slaves in 1863 instead of immediately on the outbreak of the war?

Now LC as far as thinking your government is wrong in their actions...that IS your right! Even if you are wrong it is your right. Maybe I am wrong here...but since the terrorist islamic groups KNOW we WILL come after them....they have been pretty quiet in the Western Hemisphere. Not saying it won't happen again but I'd rather fight them over there than here in my own backyard. And as Rocky said..only a politician can lose a war!! That's what happened in Vietnam and it looks as though that is what is going to happen here. Sorry LC but y'all have a lot of mealy mouthed politicians and citizens up there too. Just like we do.