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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Raymond Duray who wrote (9830)	3/24/2004 4:18:16 AM
From: ChinuSFO	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

.....A glance at America's relatively short history reveals that the Democrats have been the principal war party. The 1812 war, the first major military confrontation the then newly-created US engaged in, was provoked by a Democrat administration. In the Mexican war it was a Democrat, President James K Polk, that sent American troops into battle in the face of diplomatic efforts to avoid war. The US joined both world wars under Democrat presidents. The Cold War, the Korean War and the Vietnam War were also started by Democrats. In 1962, it was John Kennedy, a Democrat President, who brought the world to the brink of annihilation over the Cuban missile crisis. Even President Bill Clinton, the last man one would imagine as a war leader, led the US into military action in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo, both times without a United Nations' mandate. More interestingly, of the 22 wars, big and small, in which the US became involved under Democrat presidents, all but one were what one may call wars of choice. The sole exception was World War II, when the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour left President Franklin D Roosevelt with no choice but to enter the foray. Even in the World War I the US could have stayed on the ringside. The Republicans, however, had always acted as the party that ended the wars started by the Democrats. Apart from the Civil War, started by President Abraham Lincoln, the Republicans have been responsible for only three wars: the first Gulf War to liberate Kuwait, and the latest wars to topple the Taliban in Afghanistan and end Saddam Hussain's reign of terror in Iraq. (Some historians add the American-Spanish war to the list because it was conducted by the Whigs and Federalists who are regarded as precursors of the Republican Party). American stand-up comedians often use the adage: "Vote Republican to get a Depression, vote Democrat to get a war!"