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T.G. · 11-12-2010, 03:08 AM

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War Is a Racket
Written by Two-Time Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient
Major General Smedley D. Butler
USMC, Retired

CHAPTER ONE

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 ... (continued)

11-12-2010, 03:08 AM	#16
T.G. Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Ontario, Canada Posts: 671	Re: Remembrance Day 2010 http://www.lexrex.com/enlightened/ar...risaracket.htm War Is a Racket Written by Two-Time Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient Major General Smedley D. Butler USMC, Retired CHAPTER ONE 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 ... (continued)