Steve said:
Steve, he made the comment before the war. Don't know what else to say. Long and short of it Thomas Jefferson holds no special place in my heart and apparently he does in yours. To you he was a founding father of something you are very proud of. He didn't create anything for me, in fact if he'd had his way my country would not exist. Can it really get any simpler than that??????????????
"The acquisition of Canada this year, as far as the neighborhood of Quebec, will be a mere matter of marching, and will give us experience for the attack of Halifax the next, and the final expulsion of England from the American continent." — Thomas Jefferson (August 4, 1812)
The War of 1812 was a military conflict that lasted from June 1812 to February 1815
17 July 1812 The Siege of Fort of Mackinac was one of the first engagements of the War of 1812
long and short of it is you are
wrong.. so stop trying to impute the reputation of one of our MOST WELL RESPECTED founding fathers.
Steve, I try not to get in to name calling anymore, but it turns out you are in fact an idiot. He was an advocate for the war long before the war.
I know this is hard for one as feeble as yourself to understand, I'll repeat myself with the faintest of hopes you will understand.
Please read slowly, and do your best to pick up what I'm laying down:
Thomas Jefferson holds no special place in my heart and apparently he does in yours. To you he was a founding father of something you are very proud of. He didn't create anything for me, in fact if he'd had his way my country would not exist. Can it really get any simpler than that??????????????
Remember now, YOU respect him, your countrymen respect him, and that's logical. So don't get in my face about resenting his attempts to kill what I hold most dear before it was even fully formed.
In other words, buzz off.