national heroes treated TOO justly!

Ariel Sharon.  He is such an egoist racist who mistreats his supoosedly neighbors.  I mean, waste that concrete on highways!  And we have people like George Bush who calls him "he's a man of peace"???  Also, he should lose weight- he is profiled as to have been one of those heroic israeli soldiers who fought against arabs, but by looking at his fat statue, it is clear that the claim is false.

Abraham Lincoln.  I don't know why he's worshipped- jsut because he "emancipated" the slaves.  But know that that emancipation took effect only on south when he issued it.  He didn't do it for the slaves, but for he's own good.  And he wasn't even popular in his administration.  He's Gettysburg Adress wasn't immortalized until much later.

He's okay.  He sent apollo 11 to moon, greatly lowering Solviet morals.  He also saved the nuclear fallout crisis with cuba (well, it was his administration but still he gets the credit for it).  Most of the world today is democratic because of his and his administration's support in Cold War.  Not a bad leader IMHO.

He was mean- killing and betraying Cherokees.  But he saved america in the battle of new orleans, and delayed civil war until much later.  I'm not saying he's good, just not too bad.

On the subject of American hero's. Benjamin Franklin, it was two centuries he was deified in the US, in the late 19th when the British secret service made public it's files from the the American War of Independance they showed he was employed as a British spy throughout the war, but never found out by the US. US government has known of this fact for over a century but still promotes the myth of him in their education system.

The problems and differences would still be there, do you think they will just go away? Prehaps if there was a weaker president in power, he would of let them split up, prehaps causing more split ups, and becoming a "Europe" with the states as nations. Then, there would be no great country as America is today.

you also get ismarck at number one statesmen ina  poll here, and Hitler if he had won the war. so go figure...

the unfification of Germany was uninvitable as well, but Prussia declined a peaceful democratic unfification early on, isntead they forced every other state udner the Prussian crwon, ebcause Prussia would not have full power in a peacefully unified Germany. of course there would have been a liberation of salves sometime, but through war? furthermore, it's clear that the slaves were not the reason fo the war, the norht just wnated to break the economical pwer of the south (which were the slaves). and remember, the salves were no slaves anymore after the war, btu they were still second rate people until much later.