What part of WAR IS A RACKET do you NOT understand? War is a racket in every sense of the word. In the biggest war, the war to end all wars - WW1 - war was a racket. It was a bankers war, like every war since the American Revolution. It all boiled down to money. Millions, including the bravest of our own, were horrifically slaughtered, and/or maimed, and/or made homeless, for the profits of a very few: Woodrow Wilson was re-elected president in 1916 on a platform that he had kept us out of war and on the implied promise that he would keep us out of war. Yet, five months later he asked Congress to declare war on Germany. In that five-month interval the people had not been asked whether they had changed their minds. The 4,000,000 young men who put on uniforms and marched or sailed away were not asked whether they wanted to go forth to suffer and die. Then what caused our government to change its mind so suddenly? Money. An allied commission, it may be recalled, came over shortly before the war declaration and called on the President. The President summoned a group of advisers. The head of the commission spoke. Stripped of its diplomatic language, this is what he told the President and his group: There is no use kidding ourselves any longer. The cause of the allies is lost. We now owe you (American bankers, American munitions makers, American manufacturers, American speculators, American exporters) five or six billion dollars. If we lose (and without the help of the United States we must lose) we, England, France and Italy, cannot pay back this money . . . and Germany won’t. So . . . -- Major General Smedley D. Butler, USMC, in his epic anti war speech in 1933. ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.pdf
Posted on: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 23:29:01 +0000
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