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Originally Posted by Hugh
Nobody has a problem with stuff like this being in a museum - but a statue is a celebration, and how can someone who was a traitor to the USA be celebrated; we don't see statues of Sir Oswald Mosley or Lord Haw Haw in the UK.
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And yet Abraham Lincoln himself didn't think he was a traitor as no one not even Jefferson Davis were ever tried for treason.
Why would there be a statue of Lord Haw Haw for providing everyone with a laugh in our darkest hours beside which he was an American who renounced his citizenship of Britain perhaps better examples would be charles I and oliver Cromwell considering one was tried for treason and the other for regicide (admittedly after death) are there statues of them, why yes less than 2 miles apart as well but then I guess they're not facists and you need the comparisons to be as bad as possible
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Originally Posted by Damien
But what happened is what happened after the war. It changed the course of the country. Lots of bad things have happened to countries that started wars then lost but they don't justify the war in the first place. Unless he was a time traveler it was the objections he had prior to it that caused him to fight in it.
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War is always bad and it was always going to be fought on Virginia 's doorstep he knew that and that's why he refused high command in the union army offered by Abraham Lincoln himself to defend his home state.