Republicans and Wars

Hypothesis: All successful Republican tenures are based on wars, and even many unsuccessful ones. Moreover, these wars either end up failing or having a huge cost in lives.
Examples: Lincoln (Civil War), Nixon (Vietnam), Reagan (War on Drugs, indirectly), Bush Jr. (War on Terrorism/Iraq)
Exceptions: Woodrow Wilson (D) (WWI), Franklin Delano Roosevelt (D) (WWII), Bill Clinton (D) (Gulf War, IIRC; this may be Bush Sr., can't remem)

The most wrong thing about this thread involves Lincoln. I've met a shitload of republicans that insist that before the 60's they were the champions of equal rights but then they stopped when they realised enough is enough. The fact is, the vast majority of republican politicians that are old enough to've been in the game before the 60's were democrats and fighting against civil rights at the time.

The republican party when Lincoln was president probably had more in common with the democrats today. Hell, the entire civil war was proof of that. The republican party is supposedly about states rights and anti-big government, but Lincoln started an entire war to deny them their right to secede.