Is War Still a Racket?
An Ex-Marine Compares Gen. Smedley Butler's 1933 with 2003

In 1933, Butler lamented how as a Marine officer, he assisted Wall Street in their efforts to extend their empires into the Caribbean Basin and other places in the developing world. His opening statement follows: WAR is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international is scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what is seems to the majority of the 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 very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes. My mission as a Marine veteran is to continue Smedley Butler's (as well as all other veteran dissidents) legacy of exposing the truth about the purpose of military.
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