On balance, the Democrat record is worse in all regards: politics, freedom, war, ethics, morality, economics. It's a no-contest, no-brainer decision.
You are absolutely correct that Democrat politicians have always been the ones who started useless wars in the past. That makes it that much more painful that Bush and other Republicans were so eager to send our troops into a conflict that was bound to result in guerilla war. It’s as if none of them had ever read a history book, and people like Wolfowitz and Perle, who were so arrogant and stupid in predicting it would all be easy, ought to hand their heads in shame.