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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Cachecoins, post: 4741856, member: 111237&quot;]I meant to post this here. The link below is a small pamphlet / publication called<b> &#039;War is a Racket&#039; </b>by a man named Smedley D. Butler (Old Grimlet Eye) who served in many of the theaters that the U.S. was involved in during his term of service.</p><p><br /></p><p>Butler retired as a Major General and was twice decorated with the Medal of Honor. He served in China during the <b>Boxer Rebellion</b> and in Haiti when the U.S. invaded and held that country for a time. These are the places he served:</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Spanish–American War</b></p><p><b>Philippine–American War</b></p><p>Battle of Noveleta</p><p><b>Boxer Rebellion</b></p><p>Battle of Tientsin</p><p>Battle of San Tan Pating</p><p><b>Banana Wars</b></p><p>Battle of Masaya</p><p>Siege of Granada, Nicaragua</p><p>Battle of Coyotepe Hill</p><p>Infiltration of Mexico City</p><p>Battle of Fort Dipitie</p><p>Battle of Fort Rivière</p><p><b>Mexican Revolution</b></p><p>Battle of Veracruz</p><p><b>World War I</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b><a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.32000014248506&amp;view=1up&amp;seq=9" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.32000014248506&amp;view=1up&amp;seq=9" rel="nofollow">https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.32000014248506&amp;view=1up&amp;seq=9</a></b></p><p><br /></p><p>He obviously became disillusioned with war and how and why we deployed soldiers to different areas of the world. He mentions China, the Philippines, and other areas where he says we deployed men who lose their lives or become wounded or scared physically and mentally to protect the interests of millionaires who do not fight and, in the case of some like China, spend lives and large amounts of money to protect relatively small personal fortunes and business interests. Spending far more in tax dollars than the profits made by those business interests.</p><p><br /></p><p>It is a VERY brief work as he is quite succinct and straight forward.</p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center"><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/54/SmedleyButler.jpeg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b></b>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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