Slavery, the Rebel flag and the shutdown

[IrishAyes]

12. Lee never murdered anyone? Dragging them onto a battlefield in a totally unnecessary war

caused by insane secessionists and their willing collaboraters is not meeting those victims on a field of honor, but rather one of the murderer, plain and simple. Delusions? Maybe you should look that up in the dictionary for yourself. The North didn't invade an innocent, peace loving South but rather one that chose to sully the sacrifices of patriots who went before for nothing more than their own selfish ends. If that isn't evil personified, please explain what is.

Once again, he did have a good choice. He could've accepted Lincoln's offer and saved countless lives instead of making a short sighted infamous decision, trying to cover it with the fig leaf of that hypocritical statement that Virginia was his mother and that he couldn't fight his mother. Lee belongs right down there with Pol Pot, Hitler, Stalin and such. He had no qualms sacrificing many another's sons.

(later)

Are you aware that Southern leaders, according to documents of the time, planned to carry their 'peculiar institution' as far into Mexico and Central America as their swords could take them as soon as they finished whupping them damnYankees? If Lee was the flower of the South, it must be a stinkweed.