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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mrbrklyn, post: 231899, member: 4381&quot;]As a FACT, they did.&nbsp; And it wasn&#039;t an issue of Blacks in the south as much as the morally repugnant view of salery...PERIOD.&nbsp; People did fight and died to end slavery, both before the Civil War, during the Civil War, and saddly even AFTER the Civil War.</p><p><br /></p><p>And BTW, this was not unique in history.&nbsp; Time and again societies and peoples waged war and violence based&nbsp; nothing other than moral principles.&nbsp; In fact, it is nearly impossible to get a Democratic Society to support a war unless the war can be sold on Moral and Ethical ground.&nbsp; So the very basis of what you said is historically and socialogically inaccurate.</p><p><br /></p><p>People go to war over ideals ALL the time, including every American War from the American Revoltuion, through the Spanish American War (American Blood split on American Soil by a dictator), the Kansas Civil War (Bloody Kansas), the Civil War, The Spanish-American War (the attack of our brothers on the Mane),&nbsp; WWI (the killing of innocents in the sinking of the Lufestena and to make the world Safe for Democray),&nbsp; WWII (the arsenal of Democracy and the day of Infamy), through the Cold War, Korea and Vietnam on through to both Iraqi conflicts.</p><p><br /></p><p>Ruben[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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