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WillyT

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23. War Is A Racket...

Reply to awoke_in_2003 (Reply #22)

Fri Oct 10, 2014, 11:17 PM

Oct 2014

War Is A Racket
By Major General Smedley Butler

http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html

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Well Lookee Here... No Wonder We Have Endless War... (In Case You Missed This...) [View all] WillyT Oct 2014 OP

And Congress makes a handsome profit Oilwellian Oct 2014 #1

And Thank You For That Important Reminder !!! WillyT Oct 2014 #2

This message was self-deleted by its author Octafish Oct 2014 #15

And photos like the one posted packman Oct 2014 #3

The Pitfalls of Peace Octafish Oct 2014 #4

Thank You For That !!! WillyT Oct 2014 #5

Tyler Cowen may be spelling it out for us, WillyT... Octafish Oct 2014 #17

Uh, more like "The Lack of Enough Effort and Thought Applied to the Problem", not a reliance on an jtuck004 Oct 2014 #7

That's why the New Frontier. Octafish Oct 2014 #14

Sad thing is that spending the same monies on renewables would have the same result even better grahamhgreen Oct 2014 #12

For the cost of Iraq War, we could've built National 100% Renewable Clean Energy Grid. Octafish Oct 2014 #13

And all those plans would be generating cheap clean energy grahamhgreen Oct 2014 #18

++++ Voice for Peace Oct 2014 #16

Been reading Upton Sinclair's "Oil" lately. Cleita Oct 2014 #28

Thank you for the heads-up on Sinclair and the black gold, Cleita! Octafish Oct 2014 #32

It's loosely based on how the Doheny family made their fortune Cleita Oct 2014 #33

I've said it before and I'll say it again - fuck you military industrial complex!!! Initech Oct 2014 #6

Wait what are you trying to say??? grahamhgreen Oct 2014 #10

... Enthusiast Oct 2014 #8

Every time a bomb is dropped someone makes money grahamhgreen Oct 2014 #9

NS, S! War Materiel 'R' US. WinkyDink Oct 2014 #11

Evening Kick !!! WillyT Oct 2014 #19

Where is the regular rabble Caretha Oct 2014 #20

Watching The Kansas City Royals... WillyT Oct 2014 #21

War is ALWAYS about money. nt awoke_in_2003 Oct 2014 #22

War Is A Racket... WillyT Oct 2014 #23

Yep, he had it right. nt awoke_in_2003 Oct 2014 #24

Yes He Did... WillyT Oct 2014 #25

20 years later, the same basic group was able to finally bring down a sitting Democratic President.. villager Oct 2014 #27

In Harry Potter, these were the "Death Eaters" villager Oct 2014 #26

Imagine that. arcane1 Oct 2014 #29

the love of money is the root of all evil grasswire Oct 2014 #30

War is the Precious Principled Peter Oct 2014 #31

"We'll be fighting in the street, with our children at our feet, and the morals that they worship... AzDar Oct 2014 #34