Talk:John Wilkes Booth/@comment-38.114.202.226-20140513154322/@comment-1509826-20140514171436

"Lincoln was the commander and chief of the military and as such, he was a legitimate target. "

If he was on the battle field fighting, if he was captured and shot that would be a war crime. He wasn't exercuted or tried, he was murdered by Booth, which makes Booth a murder and a traitor at best, and a a terrorist at worst.

"They used lies to get us into an unnecessary war."

Your comparing Abraham Lincon to George W Bush? Bush might have been a twit, but there were legitament reasons for a america to go to war. Besides the situations are absolutely nothing alike. Parts of a country can't just tell the others to get lost when they feel like it.