More good Lincoln stuff

During the War with Mexico, Lincoln didn't like it, and said so after a vote on the war in the House in January of 1848:

It affirms it was unnecessarily and unconstitutionally begun by the President, and I will stake my life that, if you had been in my place, you would have voted just as I did.
I have, however, always intended, and still intend, to vote for supplies.
The 'locos' are untiring in their effort to make the impression that all who vote supplies or take part in the war do, of necessity, approve the President's conduct in the beginning of it, but we have, from the beginning, made and kept the distinction between the two.

Rico says a fine distinction, and one that could be used today about Iraq...