[The Don]

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He murdered 600,000 americans in a war of conquest against a nation that espoused the same concepts the US originally did with the Declaration of Independence.

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Technically, the South started the war at Ft. Sumter. And that "nation" espoused slavery, something you don't seem to like.

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Read this (also if you use that logic then you can't really justify the American Revolution).

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"My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union. I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause." The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln edited by Roy P. Basler, Volume V, "Letter to Horace Greeley" (August 22, 1862)

-"Honest" Abe Lincoln


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Lincoln's secondary motive was to free the slaves. He had this odd primary motive of forcing people (a large group at that) to be a part of his nation, even if they wanted no part of it. I think he dressed it up with some "preserving the union" rhetoric.

This, in my estimation, is the equivalent of my girlfriend breaking up with me, me then invading her home, raping and killing her, then sleeping next to her dead corpse.