Wow this written by a heroic General. It's as true today as then, If you made the warmongers fight the wars, there would be none. I like the part where all the purveyors of war had to take the soldiers salarys, right the fuck on!
medicinal Reviewed by medicinal on . War Is A Racket, Chapter One: Major General Smedley D. Butler, USMC War Is A Racket Major General Smedley D. Butler, USMC Lexrex.com Tuesday, February 6, 2007 Chapter One WAR IS A RACKET 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 Rating: 5