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Title: War is Still a Racket
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URL Source: http://www.cindysheehanssoapbox.com/
Published: May 9, 2010
Author: Cindy Sheehan
Post Date: 2010-05-09 10:39:08 by christine
Keywords: None
Views: 211
Comments: 13

For this Mother's Day, I am not going to write about Juliet Ward Howe's Mother's Day proclamation and how Mother's Day is a "Day for Peace."

By now, most of us are well aware of Ward's proclamation (if not, click here) that we Mother's should not send our sons (sic) to kill the sons of other mothers. We have strayed so far away from the original meaning of Mother's Day, that we might as well call it "Hallmark Hooray Day," and just let it be what it is. What I am going to write about, however, is the treatise of a military man that I think is profoundly and unfortunately still relevant.

Seventy-seven years ago, Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, Marine Corps, gave a speech entitled, War is a Racket. What made this speech so credible, if not surprising, is the fact that Smedley Butler was the highest decorated Marine of all time. Marines all over still learn about him, but they aren't taught that he came from Quaker roots and began to castigate the U.S. and its wars of aggression.

General Butler is not too well known outside of military/peace circles. Indeed, even though I was a U.S. History major at University and most of what we learned about was war, I don't think I had ever heard of him until about a year after Casey's death.

I received an email from a person who had read one of my articles and he sent me a link to the treatise, War is a Racket. By the time I first read Butler's work, I didn't need any more convincing that Casey died for no reason but profit, but after I read it, I began to understand that the concept of "good war," was a bogus one. Indeed, Butler says this in the first chapter:

For a great many years, as a soldier, I had a suspicion that war was a racket; not until I retired to civil life did I fully realize it. Now that I see the international war clouds gathering, as they are today, I must face it and speak out.

It seems like every generation, more or less, in the U.S. we have a significant war. My generations' "War on Terror" was Vietnam. Smedley Butler wrote War is a Racket between the "good wars" WWI and WWII.

What also makes this treatise so incredible is that in 77 years, nothing much has changed. If you just change some of the names to the current crop of culprits, it is eerily identical to today.

The rich always benefit during war and the poor always pay-always, no exception.

So as I spend my seventh Mother's Day without my oldest son on this planet, I want to close with words from Smedley:

Yes, the soldier pays the greater part of the bill. His family pays too. They pay it in the same heart-break that he does. As he suffers, they suffer. At nights, as he lay in the trenches and watched shrapnel burst about him, they lay home in their beds and tossed sleeplessly - his father, his mother, his wife, his sisters, his brothers, his sons, and his daughters.

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#3. To: christine (#0)

the treatise of a military man

Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay. Aldous Huxley

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history. Aldous Huxley

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#7. To: CadetD (#3)

Exactly. A. Huxley sharpened words and tool edges on stones and in laws written previously onto stone.

The reason men do not learn from history is because fossil fueled energy provides a lost learning curve and they marry the counterpart that accepts that notion.

Females were borne with thee embrace of feminine attributes until fake money pervasions required them to grow dicks with dickheaded attitudes chasing that faux dream of beyond their God given window.

The power of Love was so much greater and it was sold to faux fiat digibyted ideals moving minds and societies into a closet of stupidity for another piece of paper saying I am better than the person down the street because I can afford this--And it compounded into a giant service sector until all worth was a mere sideshow of actual energy.

Technology does not EVER create energy. Energy is not created or destroyed it is only eventually dispersed into unusable forms for mankind. At best it only uses it more efficiently. And when all populations rise from this efficient nature then we use that energy only that much faster.

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#8. To: All (#7)

War is a racket because it destroys things. It captures the faux fiat currency into a need for rebuilding that of which it destroyed. This is required because the currency is debt and usurped based. It has to have growth, otherwise it is kaput.

All growth comes from energy. Think about that and then do not wonder why the wardumbery seems to only happen where energy of mobility resources happen to lay under vast deserts instead of off shore oil rigs. What would be easier?

It's not like thee entire Gulf of Mexico produces half the oil that comes from a single field called Ghawar in the KSA or Burgan complex in Kuwait-- both of which are very finite and increasingly tapped/water cutted out. Extrapolate that thought and realize the greatest probable onland oil fields left in this blue marble reside in Iraq.

What a mystery it becomes.

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