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Was Lincoln a traitor?
During the Mexican War, Lincoln protested the war by his "spot resolutions" in Congress, demanding that President Polk show the spot on American soil where American blood had been shed by Mexican soldiers. In his war message to Congress, Polk claimed that Mexican troops had "shed American blood on American soil." Lincoln was asking the 19th century equivalent of where are the WMD's, the biological and chemical weapons, etc. Since Congress had actually declared war on Mexico, which was done neither in the case of Vietman nor in Iraq,
he came much closer to the Constitutional definition of treason than any of the protestors in Washington. It is time that the imperialists and neocons actually understand what treason really is.