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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: Wayners who wrote (467790)9/30/2003 4:21:57 PM
From: steve dietrich  Respond to of 769670
 
It's been too long since I studied that time period, not sure about the excise tax on textiles, but do recall the thrust was that the war was more about financial interest of the different regions, than anything else. Be hard to justify killing your fellow American over purely financial interest, the public probably wouldn't have taken up arms.