"Congressmens'/Senators' who willfully take actions during wartime that damage morale,
and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled or hanged."
Abraham Lincoln
2007-12-20 05:10:50 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Yes! Those were the days.
2007-12-20 05:14:52 · answer #1 · answered by k w 3 · 3⤊ 2⤋
No Presidents need to in check. They can't rule by emotion or by how they interpret "willfully actions that damage morale." According to whos principles. What the Presidents. It is good that a President has principles but they need to be kept in check with other branches of government. Otherwise , these would undermine individual rights and freedom. Freedom is about respecting others right to disagree without sending them to be "arrested, exiled or hanged."
2007-12-20 13:29:54 · answer #2 · answered by Unblindisback 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My problem is the lack of any explanation of what would constitute "actions that damage morale and undermine the military."
Mr. Bush says that those of us hoping for the quick and safe return of all of our service men and women is damaging morale. I can't believe that President Lincoln would agree with him especially given how reluctant he was to even engage in war.
2007-12-20 13:17:11 · answer #3 · answered by misskate12001 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. And Lincoln was degraded by the Northern Democrat pacifists (Copperheads) who called him Abraham Africanus.
2007-12-20 13:16:29 · answer #4 · answered by ? 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
So were supposed to shut up about the president using distorted intel to start a war?
Lincoln had no choice but go to war when then confederates attcked Fort Sumpter!
2007-12-20 13:21:39 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Agreed. And when did Lincoln become known as the War President? Is nothing sacred anymore?
2007-12-20 13:16:36 · answer #6 · answered by Jennifer H 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
NO....it's antiquated. What constitues damaging morale or undermining the military? Some actions would be treason but if this is being applied to people who protest war then it is just exorcizing your right to agree or disagree with your government.
Good job Schmorgan
2007-12-20 13:14:13 · answer #7 · answered by margherita 4 · 3⤊ 3⤋
Do you mean, "Do you agree with this quote by conservative scholar J. Michael Waller?"
Because Lincoln never said any such thing:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/15/AR2007021501525.html
No, I don't agree with Mr. Waller.
2007-12-20 13:20:11 · answer #8 · answered by Schmorgen 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Agree!
2007-12-20 15:30:57 · answer #9 · answered by mjmayer188 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This certainly applies to all legislators,supporting Bush.But I don't think they should be hanged,because I oppose capital punishment, under all circumstances, unlike Bush
2007-12-20 13:23:35 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think they should be hanged, but I do feel it terribly irresponsible to announce that a war is lost, and then vote to fund it within the same week.
2007-12-20 13:16:49 · answer #11 · answered by DOOM 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋