Democrats ALWAYS favored WAR!Johnson, Kennedy,Truman, Roosevelt, Wilson

[KoKo]

in the 20th Century...so how is it Repugs claim Dems ARE WEAK ON DEFENSE?
(Of all of them...I think Wilson did try to urge "peace/diplomacy" before WAR. But the record is still out on him...I think..)

The Causes of the Vietnam War
Truman, Eisenhower, and Kennedy all gave their word that the United States would
stand by ... Lyndon Johnson saw the Vietnam War as a test of his mettle, ...
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John Kennedy and the Cold War
Even more telling is the fact that when Lyndon Johnson did make the decision to
go to war one year later, the advice he took came entirely from Kennedy ...
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Cold War
In 1947, President Harry Truman also spoke of two diametrically opposed systems: one
... On October 27, another letter to Kennedy arrived from Khrushchev, ...
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Lyndon B. Johnson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He cited the growing division within the country over the war as his reason.
The Democratic nomination eventually went to Johnson's Vice President Hubert ...
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Before the Holocaust: The Cold War and Cambodia
Meanwhile a new war between North and South Vietnam escalated. The French were
long gone from the scene, so American presidents Kennedy and Johnson ...
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Presidents and States of the United States
Real wages now went down to so low a level that when the war ended, ... At the
same time Truman had desegregated the United States military. ...
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Vietnam and the Presidency Conference
On Kennedy: Professor David Kaiser, Professor of Strategy and Policy, Naval War
College, author of American Tragedy: Kennedy, Johnson, and the Origins of ...
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Foreign Affairs - Lyndon Johnson and Foreign Policy: What the New ...
... Joseph P. Kennedy that went back to the 1930s, they regarded Johnson as a ...
He had seen President Truman lose control of the Korean War when Chinese ...
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Online NewsHour: Making a Case -- September 13, 2002
BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON: I was thinking today about the whole issue of PR and ...
Truman went to war without asking a declaration from Congress, Kennedy and ...
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Truman Library - Public Programs
Niel Johnson as Harry S. Truman: Historian and former Truman Library archivist
Niel Johnson ... "Cold War Secrets" talk begins "War and Media" conference ...
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Woodrow Wilson
Finally in April of 1917 Wilson delivered his war message to Congress. ...
The act also targeted those who might "urge, incite, or advocate any curtailment ...
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[Mike Nelson]

1. Bush favors, but can't win, wars

he's not fit for the job

[Mike Nelson]

2. He doesn't know how to pick wars he can win

or win wars he picks... He doesn't know how to fight a war

[KoKo]

4. He doesn't have the "wide expanse of history" guiding him because he

told Bob Woodward...when asked: "How would you like to be remembered in History?" Chimp replied: "Who cares...we'll all be dead."

Kind a sums up what we have running the WAR in Iraq ..doesn't it. :-(

[Mike Nelson]

9. I remember that insane comment!

He probably feels the Lord is coming soon, so it doesn't matter. As long as he fans the flame of Armageddon, he's doing the Lord's work. I guess...

[KoKo]

15. Yes...that was my worry when I heard that. Woodward kept repeating

it over and over on his book tour. Maybe it even bothered his Grinchlike mercenary soul to hear a President say something like that. :shrug:

[rpannier]

3. Because Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh say so...I guess

So does most of the "Liberal Media"

[KoKo]

5. And a public who has missed all the most basic US History lessons....

:eyes: It's more important to teach "Creationism" than US History to the "masses," I guess..these days...

[Tom Joad]

6. Militarism of the Dem party is not something anyone should be proud of.

[KoKo]

8. Absolutely...but when Repugs TAR US with WEAK ON WAR...the evidence

is much to the contrary....

I'm an Anti-Iraq Invasion DU'er...so you know... But, can't understand how the Repug "Swift Boaters & Fundies" can go AT US...when we've been at the forefront of every war in the 20th Century (the bloody Century..according to many historians...who chose to ignore other "Invasions and Occupations" in History)...but nevertheless...the 20th Century was a VERY BLOODY CENTURY...and it seems the 21st might go down Topping it ..if the clueless, hapless Repugs get their way. :-(

[Tom Joad]

16. I understand that. Let's fight the repugnant ones by saying we will

not fight in wars of aggression. Save our military for true self-defense. It won't be needed except in extraordinary circumstances.

It won't help us, or the planet, if we elect dems... then they attack Iran, Syria, Venezuela.

What was the difference between the bombs dropped by lbj and nixon? I doubt if Vietnamese peasants could tell the difference.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

7. War is easy to sell, peace is difficult.

Politicians of any stripe don't mind a bit of slaughter to further their ambitions. There's always a bogeyman to erect to keep the populace obedient.

"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." H.L. Mencken

[KoKo]

10. True...but just remember the PNAC'ers pride their Bio's on being liberals

who "turned."

I think there's something we need to think about there. Remember the Mantra was that we didn't win Vietnam and maybe Korea because we "cut and ran."

Just something to think about...

[moondust]

11. Not since Vietnam.

Carter and Clinton were clearly not warmongers. They favored diplomacy with "sensible" defense policy over the unbridled jingoism of the right.

[EstimatedProphet]

12. Typical Repub crap

They claim that Democrats are the ones to start wars, and that they are peaceful-just before they start wars.

[quinnox]

13. True, Dems aren't wimps at all

And they would not shrink from using military if they had too, even some freepers admitted this I saw in a thread over there.

[applegrove]

14. Liberals favored wars for defense and a few misguided anti-soviet

affairs. Really, USA was late, late, late in signing up for WWI & WWII.

[LittleClarkie]

17. They manage to say both, somehow

That we are weak on defense, and "how dare you say that Republicans are warmongers when it was YOU guys who started them all."

Not to mention how much into peace the Republicans were when it was Clinton at war in Bosnia. Why, they sounded just like... DEMOCRATS!!