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Would President Lincoln have used poison gas against the South if he had had chemical weapons?

Posted - April 7, 2017
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  • 6477
    No idea... why don't you ask him :P
      April 7, 2017 3:39 PM MDT
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  • 1029
    Why don't YOU ask him !
      April 8, 2017 3:24 PM MDT
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  • 6477
    Cos... you are nearer silly :P
      April 8, 2017 3:49 PM MDT
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  • 1029
    Lincoln is right down the street from me !!
      April 9, 2017 4:39 PM MDT
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  • 5808
    Highly Doubtful
    don't you agree?
      April 7, 2017 4:44 PM MDT
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  • No, I don't believe he would have. We have to remember, it was always the intention of the Union to maintain/restore the country as one nation. These were all Americans, fighting on home soil. 

    The indiscriminate nature of death by chemical weapons would have put his own troops and noncombatant civilians in as much peril as the rebel soldiers. If the wind changes direction, or the chemicals taint the wells and crops, you'd have American women and babies dying en masse. 

    Lincoln was not Assad, nor Saddam, or any other version of sick mideast tyrant. It sickens me to list them in the same breath. This post was edited by Benedict Arnold at April 8, 2017 5:18 PM MDT
      April 7, 2017 7:00 PM MDT
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  • 7280
    Precisely.  Such an action would have been totally inconsistent with the man that Lincoln had showed himself to be over his lifetime.
      April 8, 2017 5:19 PM MDT
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  • Indeed, not in his character.  Now, if we wanna talk about, say, Andrew Jackson, I wouldn't be as sure....
      April 9, 2017 5:54 AM MDT
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  • 7280
    Yep---tough as "old hickory."

      April 10, 2017 11:36 AM MDT
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  • 22891
    i would hope not
      April 8, 2017 4:33 PM MDT
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