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 ==Exceptions to the ""no wars between democracies"" idea== 

 It seems quite a number of examples have been brought force, from reliable sources, of assertions that this or that conflict was a ""war between democracies"" and thus constitutes an exception to Rummel's Democratic peace theory, i.e., his claim that ""no two democracies have ever made war on each other"" (resulting in more than 1,000 casualties, that is). 

 If I hear no objection in about one more week, I plan to move this article to Objections to the democratic peace theory. Thereafter, I would invite all the contributors who have mentioned ""wars between democracies"" on this page to add information about them to the newly entitle page. 

 Each example should explain to what extent the various sources consider that each party to the conflict is a ""democracy"", as well as listing the number of casualties reported or claimed.  

 Recall that Rummel's owns definition of democracy is quite specific, and entails ""rights"" as well as ""expectations"" along with his own view of an internal distribution of power which, he asserts, is utterly at odds with the monopoly on war-making power which (he says) the leaders of non-democracies enjoy (whom he labels ""dictators"". But to be neutral, we must neither assume Rummel's view is correct nor assume that it is incorrect. We must only describe his viewpoint and the evidence he gives for it, along with the evidence and arguments that opponents give against it. (If there's room, we can give his rebuttals to those objections, too.)   "