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Divernan

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Mon May 26, 2014, 07:40 PM May 2014

War Is A Racket speech by most decorated Marine General, Smedley Butler



This link is to a professional actor reading the words of
Smedley Darlington Butler, a United States Marine Corps major general, the
highest rank authorized at that time, and at the time of his death the most decorated Marine in U.S. history. Thanks to my old friend (and Army vet) Fran for sharing this with me.
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"War Is a Racket", circa 1935, outlines the connections between war and profiteering businesses. War is driven by enterprise. Don't send your kids off to fight for "our country" unless your loyalty is to Halliburton. I mourn for all who died in wars - both soldiers and civilians. They didn't die "for our freedom" or "to keep us free" - they died for war profiteers, and General Butler spells it out with moral authority, in absolute detail and no uncertain terms.
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