The more things change, the more they stay the same. There is always atleast one group that wants to "compromise" with the enemy. Thank God Lincoln stood firm in the Civil War, and Bush will stand firm now.

Had too much of the Truth then mark???

I still would like to know how we compromise with someone who wants to kill us. Do we just let them kill some of us? Settle for the "occasional" murder of a "only" a few hundred of us "now and then?"

Thought you might like this quote from 1864...sounds a LOT like our liberal friends here.

Of course the rankest abuse came from the copperheads, among whom none was more inventive in his vituperation than a Wisconsin editor, Marcus M. Pomeroy. Lincoln, he wrote, was "but the fungus from the corrupt womb of bigotry and fanaticism"—indeed a "worse tyrant and more inhuman butcher than has existed since the days of Nero." As the election of 1864 approached, Pomeroy editorialized: "The man who votes for Lincoln now is a traitor and murderer.... And if he is elected to misgovern for another four years, we trust some bold hand will pierce his heart with dagger point for the public good."

History lesson for those of you who do not know what a copperhead is (aka Peace Democrat). Read this and if it doesn't sound EXACTLY like what is going on now, I don't know what will.

Excerpt...."Copperheads nominally favored the Union but they strongly opposed the war, for which they blamed abolitionists, and they demanded immediate peace and resisted the draft laws. They wanted Lincoln and the Republicans ousted from power, seeing the president as a tyrant who was destroying American republican values with his despotic and arbitrary actions."

Warrior, great quote. History does, indeed, repeat itself, in no small part because there are so many who fail to learn from it.

Who is suggesting comprimising with al Qaeda? And, aren't the Americans banking on comprimise between potential Civil War sides in Iraq? Don't we want them to compromise instead of fight each other?

I've said it before on here and I'll say it again, Iraq is going to need to decide it's own future (like the US did during our civil war). I believe this will happen once the US leaves and it may very likely happen in the form of a civil war.