From: J. Barlow [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2009 5:59 PM To: Undisclosed-Recipient:; Subject: SVO-9/17/09- WAR IS A RACKET BY MARINE GEN. SMEDLEY BUTLER doc [L-1) Is this related to today? Yes, the international bankers and corporations that Gen. Butler warned us about in the 1930s now have almost total control of America, the U.K. and much of the western world through the press and TV and they will do almost anything to keep it. The Salmon Valley Observer, 9/17/09 ~ Frank Fugelman ____________________________________ War is a Racket: The Antiwar Classic by America's Most Decorated Soldier, Marine Gen. Smedley Butler. (Paperback) By Smedley <http://www.amazon.com/Smedley-D.-Butler/e/B001H9RVEQ/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1> D. Butler Smedley D. Butler (Author) > Visit <http://www.amazon.com/Smedley-D.-Butler/e/B001H9RVEQ/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_po p_1> Amazon's Smedley D. Butler Page Find all the books, read about the author, and more. See search <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/ref=ntt_athr_dp_sr_pop_ 1?%5Fencoding=UTF8&sort=relevancerank&search-type=ss&index=books&field-autho r=Smedley%20D.%20Butler> results for this author Are you an author? Learn <http://authorcentral.amazon.com/gp/landing/ref=ntt_atc_dp_pel_1> about Author Central (Author) ----------- Decorated Marine General Cannot Be Ignored, August 17, 2003 Review by Robert D. Steele: This book is a real gem, a classic that should be in any library desiring to focus on national security. It is a very readable collection of short essays, ending with a concise collection of photographs that show the horror of war--on one page in particular, a pile of artillery shells labeled "Cause" and below is a photo of a massive pile of bodies, labeled "Effect." Of particular interest to anyone concerned about the current national security situation, both its expensive mis-adventures abroad and its intrusive violation of many Constitutional rights at home, is the author's history, not only as a the most decorated Marine at the time, with campaign experience all over the world, but as a spokesperson, in retirement, for placing constitutional American principles over imperialist American practice. The following quotations from the book are intended to summarize it: "I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested." [p. 10] "War is a racket. ...It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives." [p. 23] "The general public shoulders the bill [for war]. This bill renders a horrible accounting. Newly placed gravestones. Mangled bodies. Shattered minds. Broken hearts and homes. Economic instability. Depression and all its attendant miseries. Back-breaking taxation for generations and generations." [p. 24] General Butler is especially scathing when he looks at post-war casualties. He writes with great emotion about the thousands of traumatized soldiers, many of who lose their minds and are penned like animals until they die, and he notes that in his time, returning veterans are three times more likely to die prematurely than those who stayed home. This decorated Marine, who understands and documents in detail the exorbitant profits that a select few insiders (hence the term "racket") make from war, proposes three specific anti-war measures: 1) Take the profit out of war. Nationalize and mobilize the industrial sector, and pay every manager no more than each soldier earns. 2) Vote for war or no war on the basis of a limited plebiscite in which only those being asked to bear arms and die for their country are permitted to vote. 3) Limit US military forces, by Constitutional amendment, to home defense purposes only. There is a great deal of wisdom and practical experience in this small book--Smedley Butler is to war profiteering what S.L.A. Marshall is to "the soldier's load." While a globalized world and the complex integration of both national and non-national interests do seem to require a global national security strategy and a means of exerting global influence, I am convinced that he is correct about the fundamentals: we must take the profit out of war, and restore the voice of the people in the matter of making war. The <http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0001L3LUE/ref=cm_cr_asin_lnk> Fog of War - Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara Why We <http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000FBH3W2/ref=cm_cr_asin_lnk> Fight Fog <http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1560258861/ref=cm_cr_asin_lnk> Facts: Searching for Truth in the Land of Spin Lost <http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1893517004/ref=cm_cr_asin_lnk> History: Contras, Cocaine, the Press & 'Project Truth' Weapons <http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1585422762/ref=cm_cr_asin_lnk> of Mass Deception: The Uses of Propaganda in Bush's War on Iraq The <http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0805044574/ref=cm_cr_asin_lnk> Unconquerable World: Power, Nonviolence, and the Will of the People The <http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0671413333/ref=cm_cr_asin_lnk> Lessons of History See this book at: http://www.amazon.com/War-Racket-Antiwar-Americas-Decorated/dp/0922915865 ----------------------- Read the newspaper. These banksters control the Federal government and they are warning us a flu pandemic is coming, even if they have to create it to cover-up 9-11 truth. 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