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War is a Racket... - 9/11/2006 4:54:23 PM

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Written in 1935, by Major General Smedley Butler, USMC

WAR is a racket. It always has been.
It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.
A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small "inside" group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes.
In the World War [I] a mere handful garnered the profits of the conflict. At least 21,000 new millionaires and billionaires were made in the United States during the World War. That many admitted their huge blood gains in their income tax returns. How many other war millionaires falsified their tax returns no one knows.
How many of these war millionaires shouldered a rifle? How many of them dug a trench? How many of them knew what it meant to go hungry in a rat-infested dug-out? How many of them spent sleepless, frightened nights, ducking shells and shrapnel and machine gun bullets? How many of them parried a bayonet thrust of an enemy? How many of them were wounded or killed in battle?
Out of war nations acquire additional territory, if they are victorious. They just take it. This newly acquired territory promptly is exploited by the few – the selfsame few who wrung dollars out of blood in the war. The general public shoulders the bill.
And what is this bill?
This bill renders a horrible accounting. Newly placed gravestones. Mangled bodies. Shattered minds. Broken hearts and homes. Economic instability. Depression and all its attendant miseries. Back-breaking taxation for generations and generations.
For a great many years, as a soldier, I had a suspicion that war was a racket; not until I retired to civil life did I fully realize it. Now that I see the international war clouds gathering, as they are today, I must face it and speak out.

http://lexrex.com/enlightened/articles/warisaracket.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smedley_Darlington_Butler

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RE: War is a Racket... - 9/11/2006 4:59:20 PM

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His name should be know to every schoolkid as far as i'm concerned. He's one of the greatest heros in my book.

He stopped a fascist coup takeover of the United States by globalist interests.

He worked with the plotters only long enough to expose them.

"Simultaneous with the Hitler coup in Germany, London-directed Morgan and Mellon interests were involved in organizing an attempted fascist coup in the United States against President Franklin Roosevelt. The coup plot, slated for full activation by no later than 1935, was exposed in Congressional testimony in November-December 1934 by Marine hero, Major General Smedley Darlington Butler (1881-1940). Earlier, in February 1933, these same networks attempted the assassination of FDR, the failure of which led to the ``blown'' coup plot option."

http://www.corporatemofo.com/stories/030928warracket.htm

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RE: War is a Racket... - 9/11/2006 5:05:03 PM

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I love this speech and have quoted it extensively, thanks for posting it again, it should be posted everywhere and often

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RE: War is a Racket... - 9/12/2006 12:38:01 AM

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One of the cruel beauties of nuclear weapons is that the racketeers get it in the neck as well !

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RE: War is a Racket... - 9/12/2006 1:55:17 AM

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Yep. War has nothing to do with freedom and everything to do with racketeering. In WWI, the Germans had concrete trenches made out of Blue Circle cement, who sold them the Blue Circle Cement? The same people that sent British men to war. My great uncle who fought in the great war said they really should have turned round and fired at those that sent them to war.

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