Hey, Lincoln did not start the war, the South did.
The Confederacy did not "start" any war; they LEGALLY voted, state by state, to secede from the Union which was unfairly overtaxing them and refusing to recognize the rights of their states. Lincoln CHOSE to INVADE the South to FORCE them back into the Union they had legally and peacefully seceded from. He was one of the first presidents to violate the Constitution (which may be one reason Obongo likes him so much!)
Lincoln even admitted, many times early on, that the war was NOT about slavery. He later chose to reframe the debate on the war as a war against slavery. He did this because England had rceen tly outlawed slavery, and he wanted to prevent England from continuing to support the Conferderacy---if they felt by doing so it would be seen that they were continuing to support slavery.
Lincoln was an evil bastard who financially and in every other way, brutalized and raped the South, through one of his henchmen, William Tecumseh Sherman (ymach shemo). Incidentally, both Sherman and Gen. Grant were antisemitic bastards to the hilt, whereas Gen. Lee and the other Southern generals were very pro-Jewish...Gen. Lee often allowed the Jewish Confederate soldiers to take time off to observe Jewish holydays, something they did not allow for Jewish soldiers in the Union.
More info about Jewish Confederates:
http://www.thesouthernamerican.org/stardavid.html