WAR IS A RACKET--by Major General Smedley Butler, USMC (ret)
"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....."
WHERE DOES ALL THE FREAKIN' MONEY GO?
SWISS BANK ACCOUNTS MAYBE? DICK CHENEY'S BACK POCKET ? THE WINNERS ARE CORPORATIONS(and their 'little Eichmanns')AND THE RULING/OWNING/INVESTING CLASS... THE LOSERS ARE EVERYBODY ELSE. WE NEED TO GET OUT OF IRAQ NOW.
"Despite $2 billion spent, residents say Baghdad is crumbling
By Leila Fadel, Knight Ridder Newspapers
Talib Abu Younes put his lips to a glass of tap water recently and watched worms swimming in the bottom.
Electricity flickers on and off for two hours in Muthana Naim's south Baghdad home then shuts off for four in boiling July heat that shoots above 120 degrees.
Fadhel Hussein boils buckets of sewage-contaminated water from the Tigris River to wash the family's clothes.
The capital is crumbling around angry Baghdadis. Narrow concrete sewage pipes decay underground and water pipes leak out more than half the drinking water before it ever reaches a home, according to the U.S. military.
Over 18 months, American officials spent almost $2 billion to revive the capital............ "
Read the rest of the story at Yahoo news and rate it high so it stays on the front page. Why aren't more people 'getting' this. The money is disappearing. War profiteering is illegal. Tax cuts for the ultra wealthy during a war? It's never happened before. Why now? There's a war alright, but it's a class war.
Read Maj. General Smedley Butler's WAR IS A RACKET here:
http://lexrex.com/enlightened/articles/warisaracket.htm
A law had to be passed in the lead up to WWII to stop GWB's Grandfather from doing business with Nazi Germany. It's a family thing.
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"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....."
WHERE DOES ALL THE FREAKIN' MONEY GO?
SWISS BANK ACCOUNTS MAYBE? DICK CHENEY'S BACK POCKET ? THE WINNERS ARE CORPORATIONS(and their 'little Eichmanns')AND THE RULING/OWNING/INVESTING CLASS... THE LOSERS ARE EVERYBODY ELSE. WE NEED TO GET OUT OF IRAQ NOW.
"Despite $2 billion spent, residents say Baghdad is crumbling
By Leila Fadel, Knight Ridder Newspapers
Talib Abu Younes put his lips to a glass of tap water recently and watched worms swimming in the bottom.
Electricity flickers on and off for two hours in Muthana Naim's south Baghdad home then shuts off for four in boiling July heat that shoots above 120 degrees.
Fadhel Hussein boils buckets of sewage-contaminated water from the Tigris River to wash the family's clothes.
The capital is crumbling around angry Baghdadis. Narrow concrete sewage pipes decay underground and water pipes leak out more than half the drinking water before it ever reaches a home, according to the U.S. military.
Over 18 months, American officials spent almost $2 billion to revive the capital............ "
Read the rest of the story at Yahoo news and rate it high so it stays on the front page. Why aren't more people 'getting' this. The money is disappearing. War profiteering is illegal. Tax cuts for the ultra wealthy during a war? It's never happened before. Why now? There's a war alright, but it's a class war.
Read Maj. General Smedley Butler's WAR IS A RACKET here:
http://lexrex.com/enlightened/articles/warisaracket.htm
A law had to be passed in the lead up to WWII to stop GWB's Grandfather from doing business with Nazi Germany. It's a family thing.
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