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Major General Smedley Butler, USMC.

He joined the Marine Corps when the Spanish American War broke out, earned the Brevette Medal during the Boxer Rebellion in China, saw action in Central America, and in France during World War I was promoted to Major General. Smedley Butler served his country for 34 years, yet he spoke against American armed intervention into the affairs of sovereign nations.


War Is A Racket

A speech delivered in 1933, by Major General Smedley Butler, USMC.   Smedley Butler



'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.

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Opal

 You sound like a Zionist Supremist.

Thank you for the laugh!

Hey Uglydog is this YOU?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AnuPEp4jjo&feature=related

"Im no Neo Nazi..."

And yet all of your supposed "facts" and quotes a derived from neo-Nazi white supremacist sites; interesting.

Hans,


Nema na čemu i hvala vam

My Grandmother and Grandfather and mother came to this country a year before the WWWII started for Yugoslavia, they where from the coast area in Dalmatia. Most of their relatives died in concentration  type work camps and in the war. They said most of Yugoslavia and Chez where devastated by the Germans. They all, like you became citizens and to the day my grandparents died sang the praises of liberation thanking the American Military..

Paul

Dobrodošli na kao Nov Amerikanac gradovi , mi jesu veseo to jeste li  !!!

Its Croatian but close to the same language

Ugly -
I normally ignore inflammatory comments that are posted on this board, but I can't ignore this.  I don't think that there is anyone here who would say that war is good or a preferred method of solving problems.  But as long as humans exist, then evil and corruption exist, and sometimes others have to intervene to protect those who are being harmed.  And as long as we are all still human, then mistakes will be made and the best we can do is hope that as many are protected as possible.

This is why so many here work in dog rescue and pet owner education - because they want to protect as many dogs as possible from the cruel and dangerous acts of others even though there is little to no financial gain.


"Whoever destroys a soul, it is considered as if he destroyed an entire world. And whoever saves a life, it is considered as if he saved an entire world."
- Babylonian Talmud, Sanhedrin 4:8 (37a)


Opal

Also, I wanted to add that my sister-in-law lives in Prague, and the pictures she sends are magnificentI

Ugly,

Go start your own thread and spew whatever crap you want why hijack Hans thread for your crap go start your own and then watch how no one will read it. Hijacker.