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aquart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-13-10 03:07 AM
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9. HOLD ON.
Yes, Quantrill's Raiders were terrorists. That was their mission. But to say that proof they were terrorists is what they became after the war is sheer bloody ignorance of history.

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  -Were Confederate soldiers terrorists? my2sense  Apr-13-10 12:13 AM   #0 
  - Wow -- the Sons of Confederacy were already here to unrec this?  villager   Apr-13-10 12:23 AM   #1 
  - Wow! That's some stretch there. Comparing secessionists with assholes...  TreasonousBastard   Apr-13-10 12:40 AM   #2 
  - Ever heard of the Klan?  Chulanowa   Apr-13-10 05:45 AM   #13 
  - Javier Ramirez is a damned liar.  provis99   Apr-13-10 12:59 AM   #3 
  - Javier Ramirez is certainly dead wrong ---  Sinistrous   Apr-13-10 01:32 AM   #5 
  - HOLD ON.  aquart   Apr-13-10 03:07 AM   #9 
  - Union soldiers looted, pillaged and burned as well  ixion   Apr-13-10 06:22 AM   #15 
  - isn't it amazing that the rebs never broke an egg when they came  roguevalley   Apr-13-10 01:31 AM   #4 
  - One of the other southern raiders was  mojowork_n   Apr-13-10 04:30 AM   #11 
  - The concept of terrorist did not exist. Southern soldiers were treasonous pigs with no shred...  Ozymanithrax   Apr-13-10 01:36 AM   #6 
  - The usual story: the poor grunts got suckered or steamrolled into it  struggle4progress   Apr-13-10 02:06 AM   #7 
  - No. Both sides perpetrated atrocities. It was a terrible war but it was not terrorism.  Kablooie   Apr-13-10 03:01 AM   #8 
  - 'Course not. They were white and Christian  Chulanowa   Apr-13-10 05:42 AM   #12 
  - By most current usage, having uniforms and an order of battle means they weren't terrorists  Recursion   Apr-13-10 04:11 AM   #10 
  - Not according to Ulysses S. Grant, who was actually there at the time  ixion   Apr-13-10 06:12 AM   #14 
  - Red Dawn could have been "Grey Dawn" ...  zbdent   Apr-13-10 06:38 AM   #16 
  - Terrorists don't typically announce their allegiance by uniform and attack civilians  stray cat   Apr-13-10 07:48 AM   #17 
  - The nature of war is terror.  mgc1961   Apr-13-10 08:50 AM   #18 
  - Look, during the war....  Syntheto   Apr-13-10 09:12 AM   #19 
 

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