Reply #32: Before Iraq

[erpowers]

The Patorit Act and the detention of Arabs happened before the war in Iraq. Bush has claimed they are the result of the 9/11 attacks. I do not buy that, but if someone says it was okay for Lincoln to suspend Habeas Corpus during the Civil War because there was a crisis during that time cannot argue that the current detentions should not be happening. Bush has argued that some people from certain countries are hostile to the United States. I do not agree with this either, but if you are going to argue that the South was hostile then it can be argued that these countries are hostile and therefore these people can be kept with charges being brought against them. It was wrong to suspend Habeas Corpus then and it is wrong to do it now.

The point is not the men that ran against Lincoln. The point is that Lincoln agreed with Douglas on issues concerning blacks. In addition, in another post I mentioned that Martin Van Buren came out against slavery.