Jim D.: why "obviously"? Obama wants to intensify the war in Afghanistan, after all. And a lot of the wars that the US has been involved in or started have occurred under Democratic Party presidents (Korean war, Vietnam War, invasion of the Dominican Republic, the war on Serbia, etc.) ^^^^ CB: and Wilson WWI, Roosevelt WWII. In the 20th Century, all Democrats started wars until Carter, and Democrats started _all_ of the wars that had US troops ; and Republicans started none of the wars ( except for the smaller skirmishes as you say below) until Reagan/Bush I , who did Grenada, Panama and Iraq.
I think Republicans "started" all or most of the recessions/depressions. That pattern has been substantially reversed by the Bushes, so now maybe a Democrat can stop the wars. ^^^^ The current Bush has been trying to help the GOP's record, but it used to be that the DP was seen as the party of war. (Partly that was an illusion, since the GOP was involved in smaller wars, such as the attacks on countries in the Caribbean and Central America in the interwar period This message has been scanned for malware by SurfControl plc. www.surfcontrol.com _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
