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But here's my challenge to you. What would you have said in response to these words in 1865? "With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations."
-- CMcC
Then he got shot and it all went to hell anyway. Screw that. This is different. This has been going on since the revolution. Maybe we should have had our own version of The Reign of Terror here.
