Maps of War produced this interesting Flash animation showing all the wars that the United States has been involved in throughout its history. The animation shows the number of deaths due to war according to who was in power at the time: the founding fathers, the Republicans, or the Democrats. The results are somewhat surprising - although it is often the Republicans that are charged with being warmongers, they have only been in charge of one war that had a very large number of deaths, the civil war. Most of the wars the US has been involved in resulted in very few American deaths, with the only exceptions being the civil war, world war 1 and 2, the Korean war, and Vietnam.
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