Why is war bad?

[Publius1787]

Why do hypocrites think that war is good when democrats are in office but bad if republicans are in power?

I didn't see anyone make such a claim.

You could see "such a claim" in the streets when Bush was president. After Congress approved it, American Troops went farther, faster and took less casualties in Iraq than any other conflict of it's kind in U.S. history but they hanged Bush in effigy and protested in the streets. Harry Truman issued an (illegal) executive order that sent Troops to Korea and nobody protested when the U.S. ended up where they started after three years at the cost of 50,000 Americans killed.The double standard is evident, war is fine during democrat administrations, but bad when republicans are in power.

Leftist did protest Truman just as they protested Vietnam and every other conflict that pitted us against a Soviet backed regime. They were simply rooting for the Soviets. Their red diaper baby children would go on to protest the Iraq war and Afghanistan war. The difference between now and then is that the red diaper babies have taken over the DNC. Exhibit number one: Barack Obama.

 

[whitehall]

The dirty little secret is that Americans used to believe whatever the propaganda machine churned out. During WW2 the media became a part of the FDR administration and war was not only good but genocide bombing of civilians was even better. The media supported Bill Clinton's mini-war in Yugoslavia and so did Americans because they were convinced by the propaganda media that it was necessary to carpet bomb civilians in order to terrorize a country enough to give up one man. It didn't solve anything but war was good because Clinton was off the hook for his serial abuse of women. There are legitimate reasons for America to engage in armed conflict and it has nothing to do with the notion that war is good or bad.