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Title: Two-Time Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient Major General Smedley Butler - WAR IS A RACKET!
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Published: May 25, 2009
Author: Major General Smedley D. Butler - USMC
Post Date: 2009-05-25 11:52:39 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
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WAR IS A RACKET by Two-Time Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient Major General Smedley D. Butler - USMC Retired “War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, Major General USMC, "Old Gimlet Eye'' and "Hell Devil Darling", most highly decorated military men from the pre-World War II era.
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as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people.
Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted
for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses."
-- Major General Smedley Darling Butler
Major General USMC, "Old Gimlet Eye'' and "Hell Devil Darling", most highly decorated military men from the pre-World War II era.
Source: from a speech in 1933
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Smedley..Butler.Quote.C29D
“I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else.
If a nation comes over here to fight, then we'll fight.
The trouble with America is that when the dollar only earns 6 percent
over here, then it gets restless and goes overseas to get 100 percent.
Then the flag follows the dollar and the soldiers follow the flag."
-- Major General Smedley Darling Butler
Major General USMC, "Old Gimlet Eye'' and "Hell Devil Darling", most highly decorated military men from the pre-World War II era.
Source: from a speech in 1933
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Smedley..Butler.Quote.5390
“I wouldn't go to war again as I have done to protect some lousy
investment of the bankers. There are only two things we should fight for.
One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights.
War for any other reason is simply a racket."
-- Major General Smedley Darling Butler
Source: from a speech in 1933
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Smedley..Butler.Quote.5403
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