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> >I am Civil War knowledge impaired. Are you saying that in the  
> beginning, the South was not fighting?

Sorry, Gene, I was answering the question in reference to Iraq.

The Confederacy established itself as a sovereign nation and thus reasonably 
demanded that military instillations within its boundries be turned over to 
it.  All of the complied except Ft. Sumpter.  The commander there agreed to 
surrender the fort but, perhaps for appearance's sake, who knows, said he 
would do 
so when his supplies ran out (the Confederate Navy would not allow the fort 
to be resupplied).  So the shore batteries fired on the fort,.  No Union 
soldier was killed, and one Confederate died when a mortar.  That is, no one 
was 
much hurt from enemy fire.

Both sides actually planned it that way.  The batteries that would have 
inflicted such fire were not used by either side.

Then in 1861 in order to punish the South for its uppitiness, Winfred Scott 
orderd Gen Irving McDowell to invade the peaceful sovereign nation of the 
CSA.  
He was met on Southern ground at Manassas  and repulsed.

It was a fight, all right, in response to invaders into a sovereign country,




Deo Vindice!

James, the Unreconstucted   </HTML>