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Originally Posted by Psy-Fi
When it comes to Republicans and Democrats during war, it's an even split between both political parties...
American Revolution - George Washington (Non-affiliated)
War of 1812 - James Madison (Democratic-Republican)
Mexican-American War - James K. Polk (Democratic)
US Civil War - Abraham Lincoln (Republican)
Spanish American War - William McKinley (Republican)
World War I - Woodrow Wilson (Democratic)
World War II - Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democratic) and Harry S. Truman (Democratic)
Korean War - Dwight D. Eisenhower (Republican)
Vietnam War - Dwight D. Eisenhower (Republican), John F. Kennedy (Democratic), Lyndon B. Johnson (Democratic), and Richard Nixon (Republican)
Persian Gulf War - George H. W. Bush (Republican)
Second Persian Gulf War - George W. Bush (Republican) and Barack Obama (Democratic)
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Including WWI and WWII is correct in context but in all honesty did the country have any choice whatsoever in those two wars? Including Obama in the second Persian Gulf war is ingenuous. Inheriting a war that the US is so vested in, you just can't flip a switch from on to off.
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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”
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