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Anti-war coalition is what gave Democrats a solid majority to Obama. He kept at the wars and eroded the coalition until the RNC could field Trump and win.
And Obama was criticized 24/7 for keeping an active military campaign the entire 8 years and keeping Guantanamo Bay open, despite his spreading out of US troops and signing deals with the various nations towards the purpose of strengthening of middle eastern borders and improving quality of life in the region with agriculture (Feed the Future Initiative), trade, and hospitals being the only true path to peace and prosperity.
Even then, war will continue to exist in the Middle East so long as USA, EU, Russia, and China are all backing different governments militarily in the region such as Israel with the west and Iran with the east.
Only thing American voters cared about was American soldiers dying. Majority of Americans didn't even remember or cared that a million Iraqis died.
I heard the phrase 'glass em all' more than I heard sympathetic sentiment for the victims of war, at any rate.