If it weren't for Democrats, the following wars would have been avoided...

[JonKoch]

Reagan brought down the USSR? Weird I thought it was 49 years of US policy AND that failed ideology, like CONservatismn, communism?

Of course you would think that. You're an idiot. Democrats fought him every inch of the way and he STILL brought them down.

Sure Cupcake, sure. He also stopped terrorism and didn't trade guns for hostages?

 

[Dragonlady]

...Civil War, World War I, World War II, Korean War, Vietnam War.

All these wars started under Democrat Presidents.

Eisenhaurer sent the troops into Vietnam originally. The Civil War started with a Republican in the White House. And the US got into WWII because the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbour. That attack had nothing to do with the D after Roosevelt's name.

You have to look at the reasons behind wars, not whether the President is Republican or Democrat.

Since Reagan, Americans have been hell bent on military spending and having acquired all of these weapons, they itch to use them. America is being kept in a perpetual state of war.

 

[S.J.]

Eisenhaurer sent the troops into Vietnam originally.

Nice try, but Johnson is the bastard who sent 55,000+ American men to die in Vietnam and you know it.

And the US got into WWII because the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbour. That attack had nothing to do with the D after Roosevelt's name.

The Japs attacked Pearl Harbor because FDR showed weakness and they thought we would not fight back.

 

[bodecea]

Eisenhaurer sent the troops into Vietnam originally.

Nice try, but Johnson is the bastard who sent 55,000+ American men to die in Vietnam and you know it.

And the US got into WWII because the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbour. That attack had nothing to do with the D after Roosevelt's name.

The Japs attacked Pearl Harbor because FDR showed weakness and they thought we would not fight back.

Johnson escalated the war, sure. But we were already in Viet Nam. Anyone who says otherwise needs to retake 20th Century, U.S. History.

 

[S.J.]

Eisenhaurer sent the troops into Vietnam originally.

Nice try, but Johnson is the bastard who sent 55,000+ American men to die in Vietnam and you know it.

And the US got into WWII because the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbour. That attack had nothing to do with the D after Roosevelt's name.

The Japs attacked Pearl Harbor because FDR showed weakness and they thought we would not fight back.

Johnson escalated the war, sure. But we were already in Viet Nam. Anyone who says otherwise needs to retake 20th Century, U.S. History.

Just before he started drafting teenagers to go die in the jungle:

 

[JonKoch]

Eisenhaurer sent the troops into Vietnam originally.

Nice try, but Johnson is the bastard who sent 55,000+ American men to die in Vietnam and you know it.

And the US got into WWII because the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbour. That attack had nothing to do with the D after Roosevelt's name.

The Japs attacked Pearl Harbor because FDR showed weakness and they thought we would not fight back.

"FDR showed weakness and they thought we would not fight back"

Sorry Cupcake THAT was CONServatives, FDR pushed to enter the war, where historians credit him and the lend/lease program going outside of Congress to shorten the length!

 

[JonKoch]

Eisenhaurer sent the troops into Vietnam originally.

Nice try, but Johnson is the bastard who sent 55,000+ American men to die in Vietnam and you know it.

And the US got into WWII because the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbour. That attack had nothing to do with the D after Roosevelt's name.

The Japs attacked Pearl Harbor because FDR showed weakness and they thought we would not fight back.

Johnson escalated the war, sure. But we were already in Viet Nam. Anyone who says otherwise needs to retake 20th Century, U.S. History.

Just before he started drafting teenagers to go die in the jungle:

January 20, 1953 - Dwight D. Eisenhower, former five-star Army general and Allied commander in Europe during World War II, is inaugurated as the 34th U.S. President.

During his term, Eisenhower will greatly increase U.S. military aid to the French in Vietnam to prevent a Communist victory. U.S. military advisors will continue to accompany American supplies sent to Vietnam.To justify America's financial commitment, Eisenhower will cite a 'Domino Theory' in which a Communist victory in Vietnam would result in surrounding countries falling one after another like a "falling row of dominoes." The Domino Theory will be used by a succession of Presidents and their advisors to justify ever-deepening U.S. involvement in Vietnam.


January 1955 - The first direct shipment of U.S. military aid to Saigon arrives. The U.S. also offers to train the fledgling South Vietnam Army.


July 8, 1959 - Two U.S. military advisors, Maj. Dale Buis and Sgt. Chester Ovnand, are killed by Viet Minh guerrillas at Bien Hoa, South Vietnam. They are the first American deaths in the Second Indochina War which Americans will come to know simply as The Vietnam War.

The History Place - Vietnam War 1945-1960

 

[BlindBoo]

Just in case someone hasn't point this out, Congress declares war not the President.

On April 6, 1917, Congress approved a resolution declaring war with Germany. The Senate approved the resolution by a vote of 82-6 on April 4, 1917.

On December 8, 1941, Congress approved a resolution declaring war with Japan. The Senate unanimously approved the resolution, 82-0.

On December 11, 1941, Congress approved a resolution declaring war with Germany. The Senate unanimously approved the resolution, 88-0.


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