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War is a money making racket for the plutocrats

ratical.org — 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 as something that is not what it seems to be Only a small "inside" group makes a huge fortune.

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  • ileen4justice, on 07/14/2008, -0/+9As one of the if not the most decorated Major General Smedley Butler wrote: "War is a racket" You can read this timeless pamphlet on wikipedia
  • rrouse, on 07/14/2008, -0/+9This should me mandatory reading in high school.
  • MarkEarhart, on 07/15/2008, -0/+9That has been the way of war for ages. The more advanced the weaponry and equipment becomes the worse it gets.
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