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One also need look at "declared" war vs. non and what the reason was. Muslim terrorists have attacked us in-country or territory twice; and so has Japan.

Hi Dave?

I had a whole page of important stuff for you, but with phonecalls and some lout noise moments ago, I took so long to get it right, I lost time. I have to go to see the medicine man for about four hours, but will get back to that econ stuff.

God Bless.

Hangin me out to dry there Big B.

I have to git to the doc soon, but will be right back with ya in a few hours. I'm still trying to reconcile the who with the where and why, of this war disection. But I must say, you got my old wheels turning this mornin.

God Bless

One may wish to look at how Party positions changed after 1968.  The Democrats were considered the conservative party for most of the 20th century.  When LBJ announced he would not seek, nor would he accept, the nomination of his party for another term as President, old tricky Dick Nixon jumped onto the warhawk band wagon and began to espouse the same anti-communist venom he had done so many, many years earlier.  Nixon lulled people into believing they were the Great Silent Majority.  When actually Nixon was speaking to the staunch conservatives who were left wandering about without any real party to align themselves.  

What done in the Democrats was LBJ's acceptance of Civil Rights.  Many hard core Jim Crow southern Democrats who were absolute conservatives broke away from the Democratic party and moved over to the Republican ticket during this time period.  George Wallace is a perfect example of how the Democratic party had splintered and his brand of conservatism in keeping things segregated only helped to demonize the conservative movement.   Here is the point in history where you find the white, christian minority come into strength as the strong, christian conservative movement that has since exerted itself upon the Republican party platform. 

So you see, it doesn't really matter what party started what war because the ideology of the both parties has changed dramatically since the birth of our nation.  John McCain was a moderate, has always been a moderate, and will always be a moderate.  John McCain is probably more Democratic in his ideology than Hillary Clinton.  Hillary Clinton ran as a Democrat but if you were to look at her history and her record you would see she is far more to the right than John McCain on many, many, topics.

I believe we have a good man in place to be President.  Those who disagree are within their right to do so.  However, as one other poster so duly noted we do need to give the man a chance once he takes office to see what type of leader he'll become.

The only other point I wish to make is what started this thread and that was the fear of gunowners losing their 2nd Amendment rights.  I would say to you fear not.  There are far more gunowners with guns than there are military and law enforcement with the same weaponry.  If the old adage, "From my cold dead hands," rings true then gunowners have nothing to fear.