Title: A Message to the Military Source:
You Tube URL Source:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIfcDGIvTSk Published:Aug 24, 2014 Author:Mark Passio Post Date:2015-08-16 11:38:21 by Southern Style Keywords:None Views:340 Comments:28
Double Medal of Honor Recipient and USMC Major General Smedley Butler's revelation on war ..
War is a Racket by Smedley Butler is a famous speech denouncing the military industrial complex. This speech by two-time Congressional Medal of Honor recipient exposes war profits that benefit few at the expense of many. Throughout his distinguished career in the Marines, Smedley Darlington Butler demonstrated that true patriotism does not mean blind allegiance to government policies with which one does not agree. To Hell with war.
In the lifetime of this country, it has always been those at the bottom of the social ladder that have done the bleeding and dying.
Andrew Mellon wrote this, I keep it handy as it reminds me of the attitude of so many Americans...
Perhaps it speaks for some here.
"""Morgan had escaped military service in the Civil War by paying $300 to a substitute. So did John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, Philip Armour, Jay Gould, and James Mellon. Mellon's father had written to him that "a man may be a patriot without risking his own life or sacrificing his health. There are plenty of lives less valuable." ""
Of all the forums I've been part of I'd think we on 4um would recognize that our government is an Israeli owned and occupied territory. It is this foreign entity who orders mostly Christian men to fight in wars. To condemn the men while ignoring the Jew is to miss the forest for the trees.