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	War is a Racket: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		War is a Racket: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic
		War is a Racket (1935) is a short work by Major General Smedley Darlington Butler[For more info, click on this link], EHandler: no quick summary.
		World war i, also known as the first world war, the great war, the war of the nations, and the war to end all wars, was a world conflict occurring...
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/w/wa/war_is_a_racket.htm (283 words)

	War is a Racket - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		War is a Racket (1935) is a short work by former U.S. Marine Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, where Butler discusses how business interests have commercially benefited from warfare.
		Butler points to a variety of examples, mostly from World War I, where industrialists whose operations were subsidised by public funding were able to generate substantial profits essentially from mass human suffering.
		War is a Racket (images of original publication)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/War_is_a_Racket (231 words)

	War is a Racket
		His riveting 1935 book War is a Racket merits inclusion as required reading for every high school student, and for every member of our armed forces today.
		This was the "war to end all wars." This was the "war to make the world safe for democracy." No one mentioned to them, as they marched away, that their going and their dying would mean huge war profits.
		When our boys were sent off to war they were told it was a "war to make the world safe for democracy" and a "war to end all wars." And very little, if anything, has been accomplished to assure us that the World War was really the war to end all wars.
	www.wanttoknow.info /warisaracket (2725 words)

	War Is A Racket
		A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people.
		War for any other reason is simply a racket.
		There isn't a trick in the racketeering bag that the military gang is blind to.
	www.rense.com /general28/warisaRacket.htm (338 words)

	War Is A Racket, by Major General Smedley Butler, 1935
		I suppose, if the war had lasted just a little longer, the enterprising mosquito netting manufacturers would have sold your Uncle Sam a couple of consignments of mosquitoes to plant in France so that more mosquito netting would be in order.
		Had secrecy been outlawed as far as war negotiations were concerned, and had the press been invited to be present at that conference, or had radio been available to broadcast the proceedings, America never would have entered the World War.
		The next war, according to experts, will be fought not with battleships, not by artillery, not with rifles and not with machine guns.
	www.ratical.org /ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html (5690 words)

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		For a great many years, as a soldier, I had a suspicion that war was a racket; not until I retired to civil life did I fully realize it.
		Now that I see the international war clouds gathering, as they are today, I must face it and speak out.
		For a very few this racket, like bootlegging and other underworld rackets, brings fancy profits, but the cost of operations is always transferred to the people – who do not profit.
	www.scuttlebuttsmallchow.com /racket1.html (1005 words)

	War Is A Racket
		Why, when the war was over some 4,000,000 sets of equipment — knapsacks and the things that go to fill them — crammed warehouses on this side.
		So capital won't permit the taking of the profit out of war until the people — those who do the suffering and still pay the price — make up their minds that those they elect to office shall do their bidding, and not that of the profiteers.
		They should be the ones to have the power to decide — and not a Congress few of whose members are within the age limit and fewer still of whom are in physical condition to bear arms.
	www.informationclearinghouse.info /article4377.htm (5838 words)

	War is a Racket (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		http://feralhouse.com) of "War is a Racket" by Brigadier General Smedley D. Butler.
		Writing mostly about World War I in "War is a Racket," Butler explains that war is "possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, sure the most vicious" racket of all.
		During the "good war," a time of absolute unity we're told, there were 43,000 conscientious objectors and a total of 350,000 cases of draft evasion.
	www.dissidentvoice.org /Articles8/MickeyZ_Smedley-Butler.htm (786 words)

	The Konformist - "WAR IS A RACKET"
		And during that period, I spent most of my time being a high class muscle- man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers.
		During those years, I had, as the boys in the back room would say, a swell racket.
		The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts.
	www.konformist.com /911/war-is-a-racket.htm (501 words)

	Smedley Butler: War is a Racket
		War is a Racket was published in 1935 by Round Table Press, Inc., New York.
		Hans Schmidt, in his 1987 biography of Butler, Maverick Marine: General Smedley D. Butler and the Contradictions of American Military History, offers the following assessment: "Much of War is a Racket was stock antiwar, anti-imperialist idiom, part of an American tradition dating back to the eighteenth century.
		Butler's particular contribution was his recantation, denouncing war on moral grounds after having been a warrior hero and spending most of his life as a military insider.
	www.scuttlebuttsmallchow.com /racket.html (165 words)

	War Is A Racket (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		You are here : home ⇐ politics ⇐ Iraq War ⇐ War Is A Racket.
		This is piece was written way back in 1933, but is still just as relevant.
		The Medal of Honor is the highest award given by the US military.
	mindprod.com /politics/warracket.html (612 words)

	POCLAD - War, Inc. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It always has been…A racket is best described as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people.
		In Afghanistan as in every war, corporations[5] play a central role to protect their interests—whether those interests are the profits from waging war or the geostrategic spoils of war.
		Forget for a moment the indictable war profiteers like J.P. Morgan and consider just one instance of how war wealth, generated legally, empowers the few “inside the racket” to benefit economically and politically at the expense of the many.
	www.poclad.org /articles/ferner02.htm (1707 words)

	List of books by title: W - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The War Racket - Harry Browne (publication date not yet set)
		The Wars of the Roses - Alison Weir (1994)
		The Winds of War - Herman Wouk (1971)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_books_by_title:_W (774 words)

	General Smedley Butler: 'War Is a Racket'
		Is War Still a Racket?" CounterPunch, January 9, 2003]
		John S.D. Eisenhower, "War Turned Eisenhower Into a Pacifist," International Herald Tribune, June 6, 2004
		VIDEO: An unflinching look at the anatomy of the American war machine, weaving unforgettable personal stories with commentary by a "who's who" of military and beltway insiders.
	www.twf.org /News/Y2001/0911-Racket.html (868 words)

	War is a Racket \| MetaFilter
		Yeah, but the source isn't your usual tree-hugger-rainbow-peace-hippy-noglobal-yourfavouritedissing pal, but no one less then U.S.M.C. Major General Smedley Darlington Butler two times recipient of the Congress Medal of Honor and the only Officer in the Corps to be awarded CMoH two times.Found it while browsing the net, the complete book ISBN number is 0922915865.
		One man, 60+ years ago, who decried war -- AFTER he was earning a living from same, of course.
		I would say that his past is relevant only insamuch as it is proof he has been there and knows of what he speaks, I would not say it de facto prohibits him from ever coming out against war.
	www.metafilter.com /mefi/29069 (1479 words)

	Crimes Against Humanity: War Is A Racket
		A War in the Planning for Four Years,
		Part 2: Enron, the Bush administration, and the Central Asian war, 7 Feb 2002
		I spent thirty-three years and four months in active military service as a member of this country's most agile military force, the Marine Corps.
	www.ratical.org /ratville/CAH/cahWR.html (799 words)

	ZNet \|Anti War \| War Is A Racket (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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		That same day, I received an advance review copy from Feral House (http://feralhouse.com) of "War is a Racket" by Brigadier General Smedley D. Butler.
		Mickey Z. is the author of The Murdering of My Years: Artists and Activists Making Ends Meet (www.murderingofmyyears.com) and an editor at Wide Angle (www.wideangleny.com).
	www.zmag.org /content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=40&ItemID=4091 (787 words)

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