DEMOCRATS RETURN HOME TO THEIR CIVIL WAR ROOTS AS "PEACE DEMOCRATS"

We have to bite the bullet and win

The Left Wing Democratic Party, literate, educated to a fault, and hateful of Bush and Republicans to their deepest souls are unconsciously returning to their anti-Civil War stances of a century and a half ago. Way back then, the "Peace Democrats" as they were called, did everything in their power to destroy Lincoln and the Republican Party, a party in power with a minority of the votes. They attacked the Emancipation Proclamation on every conceivable ground, and found constant justification for attacking the Republicans because of Lincoln's suspension of habeas corpus; the right to a trial in civilian courts.

From the beginning of the Patriot Act, the Democratic Left has lied to the American Public about what it was about. They have attacked Attorney General Ashcroft as if habeas corpus had been suspended, as if everyone's library habits would be looked at, and as if the country was now under a dictatorship; the same charges the Party hurled at Lincoln in the Civil War. The only thing they lack, that they found during the Civil War, is a true martyr, a prominent figure wrongly accused. Back then they had a former Ohio Congressman named Vallandingham, who Lincoln's general in the Midwest arrested and jailed for making a speech attacking Lincoln and the Civil War. The uproar, both over the suspension of habeas corpus and the arrest of Vallandingham, caused Lincoln to back down and advanced the cause of Slavery and the Confederacy in the North. All this was happening as the War against the South was going very badly, in fact was almost lost. The casualties mounted and it appeared there was little chance for victory. The Democrats of that day tried to involve both Britain and France into mediation to stop the war, preserve slavery in the South, and kick the Republicans from office

The Bush Administration is light years away from Lincoln's suspension of habeas corpus. Only the terrorists are denied trials in civilian courts. But the Democrats attack as if habeas corpus has been suspended, that "the fraudulently elected" Bush is a dictator, and that thousands of citizens have been denied trials. The Civil War Democrats wanted the Union to lose. They wanted no part of emancipation and regarded freed slaves as competition to working people in the border states.

Today, they want America to lose. They would return Iraq to a dictatorship in a nanosecond if they could, not caring if people have their tongues nailed to boards in just the same way as they didn't care if black people were in chains back in 1863. They view Iraq oil in the hands of anyone other than the French or UN as "bad".

They failed back in 1863 when the Union finally began to win major battles. The obvious sadness and anger that gripped the Democratic Party over our initial military victory in Iraq was obvious, from the contrived "reports from the front" by so-called analysts (the ex-colonels), to the CNN/New York Times "analysis" of defeat. Now they have their big chance as the terrorist/Baathist remnants mount a juvenile gang type of "war" against our troops. During 1862 and 1863 the Democrats actively campaigned to get both France and England to "intervene" in the Civil War and broker a "peace" that would separate North and South. They didn't care that a Slave South wanted to expand slavery to Mexico, the states of the Carribean, and West to the Pacific. Today they want France and Germany to broker a "solution" and the gangster controlled UN to "take control", not caring about the Iraqi civilian population nor about what a terrorist base in any Mid East country would eventually mean for the United States.

The Democrats have returned to their home. Let's deal with it. The only way to deal with it is Victory.