@UNIMAN
C'mon be serious. The country was already divided before Joe even starting running for office. He has tried to bring the country together but can't get the GOP to pass anything even if it's in the best interest of the ENTIRE country.
Thank God John Bolton isn't in this administration & if you remember, Barbara Lee (CA-D) was the only member of Congress to vote against the war in Afghanistan & Joe is the only president to end the war. It's never pretty when a war is ended. It's ugly & ugly things happen. It's never perfect. You try your best to limit the collateral damage.
As far as war mongers, I came across this article in Salon published 10/30/2018 & I doubt much has changes other than some members noted are no longer in Congress. It would also be great to do research to see whether or not the members mentioned served our country & more to the point, served during a war time period. Enjoy....
When it comes to critical votes on war, peace and militarism, the differences between Democrats and Republicans are more stark. In lifetime voting records tabulated by Peace Action, the average House Democrat has a 72 percent peace voting record, while the average House Republican scores only 10 percent. In the Senate, the difference is 69 percent to 14 percent.
There are noteworthy outliers, like Rep. Justin Amash (R-MI-3) with an 82 percent peace voting record and Rep. Pete Aguilar (D-CA-31) at only 18 percent. In the Senate, Republican Rand Paul (KY) has a better voting record (62 percent) than Democrat Joe Donnelly of Indiana (16 percent), although even Rand Paul would be below-average if he were a Democrat.
And then there are real champions for peace and disarmament in Congress: 16 Democrats and 10 Republicans in the House who have run this year’s campaigns with no arms industry cash at all; and progressive leaders who stand up to vote for peace at almost every chance they get, like Barbara Lee (CA-13), with a 99 percent lifetime peace voting record, Katherine Clark (MA-5) at 98 percent, Jared Huffman (CA-2), Mark DeSaulnier (CA-11) and Earl Blumenauer (OR-3) at 96 percent, and Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin with the highest score in the Senate at 94 percent.
At the other end of the scale, there are 22 Members of Congress (all Republicans) with a 0 percent peace voting record, meaning that they have never once voted as requested by members of Peace Action, CODEPINK and our partners in the U.S. peace community. They are Senator Tom Cotton (AR) and Representatives McSally (AZ-2), Walters (CA-45), Curbelo (FL-26), Carter (GA-1), Allen (GA-12), Bost (IL-12), LaHood (IL-18), Brooks (IN-5), Poliquin (ME-2), Bishop (MI-8), Emmer (MN-6), Stefanik (NY-21), Katko (NY-24), Rouzer (NC-7), Russell (OK-5), Costello (PA-6), Ratcliffe (TX-4), Hurd (TX-23), Brat (VA-7), Comstock (VA-10) and Newhouse (WA-4).