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Posted by clueless [200.122.172.152] on Thursday, November 11, 2010 at 10:47:51 :
In Reply to: Hard facts 1914 1918 posted by copey [206.80.249.113] on Thursday, November 11, 2010 at 05:59:18 :
A little reminder from the major
War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, 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.
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.
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.
And war is the most profitable racket in the world!
Written by Two-Time Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient
Major General Smedley D. Butler
USMC, Retired
http://www.lexrex.com/enlightened/articles/warisaracket.htm
Top Contractors 2007
Lockheed Martin Corp....... $27,320,616,068
Boeing Co.............................. 20,861,418,121
Northrop Grumman Corp.. ....16,769,641,720
General Dynamics Corp. .......11,472,032,564
Raytheon Co.. . . . . . . . . . ......10,411,293,335
KBR Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ......5,972,078,973
L-3 Communications . . . . . ......5,039,851,150
United Technologies Corp. . ....4,574,841,469
BAE Systems. . . . . . . . . . . ..... 4,500,683,821
SAIC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. ......3,404,387,189
General Electric Co.. . . . . . . ...2,933,412,009
Computer Sciences Corp. . . ....2,763,028,827
Humana Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . .....2,632,567,928
Health Net Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . ...2,117,988,171
Triwest Healthcare . . . . . . . ... 2,021,460,650
Corporations, according to the Supreme Court, are legally equivalent to "natural persons." These patriotic corporate citizens are normally satisfied with the day-to-day political influence which brings them little (or no) taxes, subsidies ($1.5 billion to Big Oil) and immunity from criminal prosecution for damaging us. But when it's wartime for the troops it's showtime for the elite. A War For Freedom has to be financed, so the banks' profits jump. We neeed equipment, so armaments makes a bundle. And Big Oil pumps up its profits with high octane. United They Stand, The Sky's The Limit. Let all the casualties be on the battlefield, not on Wall Street, because not all natural persons are created equal. So the Pentagon starts deploying troops and writing 'corporate welfare' checks to benefit corporations. We make war to make profits. It's a rich man's war and a poor man's fight, and corporations plus their congressional friends are behind it all. Think of it as War, Inc.