Republicans the party of war? Not so much...

My withered brain | 10 March 2018 | Magnatron

[Magnatron]

The Democrat party is and has been the most evil and corrupt party in American history, using our government to bend and oppress the will of the people. From its support of slavery, to the Ku Klux Klan, to Tammany Hall, to its fight against civil rights, to its continued oppression of people of color through meager government handouts, to it’s bloody war dead, through its most recent collaboration with Russia and the corruption of our intelligence agencies to attempt to overthrow our government.

Wait, Democrats the war party??? I thought Republicans were! No, just like everything else, the left loves to transfer their evil to the Republican party (the Southern Strategy anyone?). If you don't believe me, here's the proof for your own eyes. Show this to the next lefty who tells you that the Republicans are the party of war:

War or Conflict	Date	Dead	Wounded	Total Dead and Wounded	President	Party	Comments
Northwest Indian War	1785-1795	1056+	825+	1881+
Quasi-War	1798–1800	514	42	556	Adams	Federalist
First Barbary War	1801-1805	74	64	138	Jefferson	Democrat
Chesapeake-Leopard Affair	1807	3	18	21	Jefferson	Democrat
War of 1812	1812-1814	~20,000	4,505	~25,000	Madison	Democrat
Marquesas Expedition	1813-1814	4	3	7	Madison	Democrat
Second Barbary War	1815	138	10	148	Madison	Democrat
First Seminole War	1817-1818	47	36	83	Jackson	Democrat
First Sumatran Expedition	1832	2	11	13	Jackson	Democrat
Black Hawk War	1832	305	85	390	Jackson	Democrat
Second Seminole War	1835-1842	1,535		1,535	Jackson	Democrat	Continued trough Harrison’s (Whig) term
Mexican-American War	1846-1848	13,283	4,152	17,435	Polk	Democrat
Third Seminole War	1855-1858	26	27	53	Pierce	Democrat
Civil War	1861-1865	625,000	412,200	1,037,200	Davis	Democrat	Lincoln (Republican) was northern president, but war was begun by secession of southern democratically-controlled states. South fired first shot at Fort Sumter.
Spanish-American War	1898	2,446	1,622	4,068	McKinley	Republican
Philippine-American War	1898-1913	4,196	2,930	7,126	McKinley	Republican
Boxer Rebellion	1900-1901	131	204	335	Roosevelt	Republican
Mexican Revolution	1914-1919		70	70	Wilson	Democrat
Occupation of Haiti	1915-1934	148	26+	184+	Wilson	Democrat
World War I	1917-1918	116,516	204,002	320,518	Wilson	Democrat
North Russia Campaign	1918-1920	424		424	Wilson	Democrat
American Expeditionary Force Siberia	1918-1920	328	52+	380+	Wilson	Democrat
World War II	1941-1945	405,399	670,846	1,076,245	FDR/Truman	Democrat
China	1945-1947	13	43	56	Truman	Democrat
Korean War	1950-1953	36,516	92,134	128,650	Truman	Democrat
Vietnam War	1955-1975	58,209	153,303	211,454	Kennedy/LBJ	Democrat	Nixon (Republican) ended war
Bay of Pigs Invasion	1961	4		4	Kennedy	Democrat
Dominican Republic	1965-1966	13	200	213	Johnson	Democrat
Iran	1980	8	4	12	Carter	Democrat
El Salvador Civil War	1980-1992	37	35	72	Reagan	Republican
Beirut Deployment	1982-1984	266	169	435	Reagan	Republican
Invasion of Grenada	1983	19	119	138	Reagan	Republican
1986 Bombing of Libya	1986	2		2	Reagan	Republican
Invasion of Panama	1989	40	324	364	Bush	Bush
Gulf War	1990-1991	258	849	1,231	Bush	Republican
Somalia	1992-1993	43	153	196	Clinton	Democrat
Haiti	1994-1995	4	3	7	Clinton	Democrat
Bosnia-Herzegovina	1995-2004	12	6	18	Clinton	Democrat
NATO Bombing of Yugoslavia	1999	20	2+	22+	Clinton	Democrat
Afghanistan	2001-present	1,803	9,971	12,035	Bush	Republican
Iraq War	2003-2011	4,477	31,965	36,395		Republican
						Democrat
Total War Casualties		1,272,237	1,590,105	2,857,647
Total Republican War Casualties	(11 total wars or conflicts			62,201
Total Democrat War Casualties	(28 total wars or conflicts)			2,794,890

[Magnatron]

For your consideration...

[The Sons of Liberty]

Thanks for posting.

[Telepathic Intruder]

And that doesn’t include Obama bombing the snot out of Libya, attempting a government overthrow in Egypt, or assisting Syrian rebels.

[Dilbert San Diego]

Interesting. But what does this really indicate?

For example, we entered World War II after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. I think we would have entered the war then, if Wendell Willkie had defeated FDR in the 1940 election. I wouldn’t think our entry into that war, showed a tendency of a Democrat to enter a war.

[dfwgator]

Wilkie was a Roosevelt plant who insured that even if the GOP won in 1940, that Roosevelt’s policies would still be carried out.

[RedStateRocker]

If we had had a real republican in the ‘30’s we might have stayed the hell out of the Asian conflict and not embargoed Japan provoking them to attack.

But then I am admittedly as non-interventionist as it is possible to be.

[dfwgator]

Robert Taft was the best President we never had.

[Paal Gulli]

I tried to watch Ken Burn’s series on the War in Vietnam but I only lasted about three espisodes, up to the point when he clearly was jumping through hoops and rewriting history in an effort to reahibilitate the image of Ho Chi Minh. Up until that point I thought the facts had been being presented pretty even-handedly. Particularly the recordings he played of telephone conversations had by JFK and LBJ when each was POTUS. Both men admitted, in essence, that they should have been reducing troop levels in southeast Asia and preparing to disengage from the conflict, but both indicated they weren’t willing to suffer the consequences of those acts at the ballot box.

It was a confession to letting their lust for power dictate the strategy in Vietnam, a willingness to trade lives of American servicemen for votes.

[Magnatron]

Interesting. But what does this really indicate?

This isn’t to indicate that there’s not righteous reasons to go to war, but rather the moniker the left places on the right as warmongers is a fallacy when the evidence is examined...

...or course evidence doesn’t matter to the left.

[rockrr]

Dhimmicrats start wars - Republicans finish them.

[CodeToad]

Excellent! I’ve been saying the Dmeocrats are the war
party.

[AndyTheBear]

Interesting chart.

[hawkaw]

For your consideration only, would you add a democRAT to the Afghanistan conflict seeing O increased forces there? I am also not sure if you should have a republican registered for the Vietnam war too but you did make a note about how Nixon ended it.

I think I understand your reasoning behind why you do not have a Republican starting the civil war.

Having said all that, it was an interesting chart.

[arthurus]

Until you consider that FDR manipulated the situation in order to get us into that war.

[RedStateRocker]

AMEN!

[RedStateRocker]

He loved playing ‘Let’s you and him fight’ between the Japanese and Chinese.

[JimRed]

…to its continued oppression of people of color through meager government handouts...

“These Negroes, they’re getting pretty uppity these days and that’s a problem for us since they’ve got something now they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness. Now we’ve got to do something about this, we’ve got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference."

“I’ll have those niggers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.” ~ Lyndon B. Johnson

[x]

Things have gotten muddier since Bob Dole talked about "Democrat Wars."

The Bushes got us into some "wars of choice" that we might have avoided.

[x]

Marquesas Expedition, First Sumatran Expedition, Second Sumatran Expedition. I have never heard of these.

There was also a Korean Expedition in 1871 and a Paraguayan Expedition in 1858, that I only learned of recently.

And two Fiji expeditions I just found out about now. Not to mention countless Indian wars.