HIFLYER2 posted:jtdavis posted:That's easy, YOU. You're also a deflector. What's there to deny? The wars belong to you Dems.
Gifted, again I ask, would you list the wars that the democrats have started in the last 50 years.
OK JT for the Record
WWI War was declared by Woodrow Wilson Democrat
WWII was FDR Democrat
Korean War Harry S Truman Democrat
Vietnam War Dwight D Eisenhower Republican
Gulf War G.H. Bush Republican
Iraq War G.W. Bush Republican
So 50/50
Actually Vietnam is also owned by Truman with a little co-ownership by Kennedy and a lot of ownership by LBJ. Truman promised the French whatever aid that they needed would be given and Eisenhower's contribution was that he honored Truman's commitment and allowed the French to pull their whipped butts out of Indochina after Dien Bien Phu. Kennedy gets some ownership because de Gaulle released the US from it's promise:
“You will find,” I said to him, “that intervention in this area will be an endless entanglement. Once a nation has been aroused, no foreign power, however strong, can impose its will upon it. You will discover this for yourselves. For even if you find local.leaders who in their own interests are prepared to obey you, the people will not agree to it, and indeed do not want you. The ideology which you invoke will make no difference. Indeed, in the eyes of the masses it will become identified with your will to power. That is why the more you become involved out there against Communism, the more the Communists will appear as the champions of national independence, and the more support they will receive, if only from despair.
“We French have had experience of it. Yott Americans wanted to take our place in Indochina. Now you want to take over where we left off and revive a war which we brought to an end. I predict that you will sink step by step into a bottomless military and political quagmire, hOwever much you spend in men and money. What you, we and others ought to do for unhappy Asia is not to take over the running of these States ourselves, but to provide them with the means to escape from the misery and humiliation which, there as elsewhere, are the causes of totalitarian regimes. I tell you this in the name of the West.”
http://www.nytimes.com/1972/03...ment-in-vietnam.html
Johnson get's more blame because of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Tonkin_incident