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Notable Quotes – Treason

Update:  Loyal Reader Paul informed me that I might have been off a tad with respect to attribution:

During floor debate on the Iraq war yesterday, Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska) quoted Abraham Lincoln as advocating the hanging of lawmakers who undermine military morale during wartime.

"Congressmen who willfully take action during wartime that damage morale and undermine the military are saboteurs, and should be arrested, exiled or hanged," Young declared.

One problem: Lincoln never said such a thing.

Conservative scholar J. Michael Waller did, in an article for Insight magazine in December 2003. Waller later told Annenberg Political Fact Check that the supposed quote "is not a quote at all" but that a copy editor mistakenly put quotation marks around his words, making them appear to be Lincoln’s.

Thank you Paul!  BTW, go over and visit Paul at his place!

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Some common sense from one of our best Presidents….perhaps it should be used a bit more often:

"Congressmen who willfully take actions during wartime that damage morale,  and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled or hanged."
 
                               ~ President Abraham Lincoln

Think of any?

 

(H/T: Sue)

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