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Is war a racket?
At least one Major General of the USMC thought so, and he spoke about it in 1933.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig12/butler-s1.1.1.html
[FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]"War is a racket. It always has been[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious..........It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives."[/FONT]
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"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"
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"...........[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]At least 21,000 new millionaires and billionaires were made in the United States during the World War..........[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]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?............."[/FONT]
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"[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif] The World War, rather our brief participation in it, has cost the United States some $52,000,000,000. Figure it out. That means $400 to every American man, woman, and child. And we haven't paid the debt yet. We are paying it, our children will pay it, and our children's children probably still will be paying the cost of that war."[/FONT]
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"[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]Who provides the profits........[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]We all pay them – in taxation............[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]But the soldier pays the biggest part of the bill.........."[/FONT]
At least one Major General of the USMC thought so, and he spoke about it in 1933.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig12/butler-s1.1.1.html
[FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]"War is a racket. It always has been[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious..........It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives."[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]
"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"
[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]
"...........[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]At least 21,000 new millionaires and billionaires were made in the United States during the World War..........[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]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?............."[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]
"[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif] The World War, rather our brief participation in it, has cost the United States some $52,000,000,000. Figure it out. That means $400 to every American man, woman, and child. And we haven't paid the debt yet. We are paying it, our children will pay it, and our children's children probably still will be paying the cost of that war."[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]
"[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]Who provides the profits........[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]We all pay them – in taxation............[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]But the soldier pays the biggest part of the bill.........."[/FONT]
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