War is a Racket...most of the time

Date: February 28, 2006 at 17:19:43
From: Ian, [w034.z064000037.nyc-ny.dsl.cnc.net]
Subject: War is a Racket...most of the time

Read "War is a Racket", written eons ago by Brigadier General Smedley D. Butler about his solidering in the 20th century.

Butler was a decorated Marine General by the way and he actually named names.

Here's one quote:

"I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interest in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Center American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interest in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested."
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 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 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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