Originally Posted by 4ager
Originally Posted by Birdwatcher
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Well, you see, it's complicated...


History often is, except to the simple-minded.


I'm glad you finally admit your short-comings, as NO ONE but you has claimed the War of Northern Aggression was not complicated.


I did? Where? (ans: nowhere of course, in fact you yourself just got done ridiculing me for saying history is complicated)

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How many threads are you going to f'k up with your idiocy?


OK, I cite a recommended source verbatim and entirely in-context specifically addressing the original topic and I get this?...... geeze, where's an eye-roll emoticon when you need it? grin

But... onwards with the topic...

Birdwatcher

"...if the gentlemen of Virginia shall send us a dozen of their sons, we would take great care in their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." Canasatego 1744