Reply #4: Well, as a Democratic Party site, it would likely have been very critical of Lincoln. [View All]

[damntexdem]

But what if it were Protectallrights.com? Chances are, antislavery sentiment would drive support for the Union in the war, whatever Lincoln thought the purpose of the war was. However, chances also are that concern for rights, including habeus corpus, would have led to criticism of the suspension of habeus corpus.

A better question would be what if DU had been around during WWII, when the government interned Japanese Americans. I would like to think that, notwithstanding strong support for all the progressive things that FDR had done and militant support for the war against fascism, majority sentiment on DU would still have been to condemn the internments.

Now, I'll go back to what I whimsically thought when I first read the question: Wow, if depleted uranium were around during the Civil War, Lincoln would have been sorely tempted to use DU munitions against Confederate troops; but I would like to think that he would have not used nuclear weapons (implied by the existence of 'depleted' uranium) on Southern cities. ;-)