War is a Racket by Smedley Butler

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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.

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  • You are absolutely correct. The citizens of the US have been indoctrinated for years to accept the pablum doled out by Washington DC. It's sick and pathetic and can blamed on an education system that has been skewed so as to allow the manipulation of US citizens from birth.

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  • Important for every potential soldier to see

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  • END THE DRUG WAR

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  • Sure bitch whatever the fuck you say dumbfuck, nobody cares, just acknowledge the soldiers in those other countries dying for our freedom, remember that Asshole. ;D

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  • WOW!spoken like a true indoctrinated Chicken Shit MF, you never lost a relative ,nobody bombed out your home, you have never had to put a family member after dying much to young, in name of my fallen cousins and me fuck you chicken shit coward hope you get ass cancer!

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  • To hell with war!

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  • Not wrong but not a good idea :)

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  • ...Stupid pacifists...

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  • Very Cool thanks well said.

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  • cool. Thankyou!

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  • my dearest brothers and sisters/bless you for participating in this discussion/BUT,there is no god to "save" us and the universe is a cruel place/I had hoped that as a species we would evolve into intelligent rational logical and compassionate creatures/BUT I see each new generation dumbed down more than the last/I must beleive T S Elliott who wrote"this is the way the world ends,not with a bang but a WHIMPER

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