What Is The Point Of Risking Your Life In The Military To Protect The Right Of Billionaires To

[Bigmack]

25. Butler and Shoup....

Three Medals of Honor and 10 Purple Hearts between them....
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My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military.
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War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.
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War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious.
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I spent 33 years and 4 months In active service as a member of our country's most agile military force -- the Marine Corps. I served in all commissioned ranks from a second lieutenant to Major-General. 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. In short, I was a racketeer for capitalism.

All of the above quotes by Gen. Smedley Butler, USMC two time Medal of Honor recipient.
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`I believe that if we had and would keep our dirty, bloody, dollar soaked fingers out of the business of these (Third World) nations so full of depressed, exploited people, they will arrive at a solution of their own. And if unfortunately their revolution must be of the violent type because the `haves' refuse to share with the `have-nots' by any peaceful method, at least what they get will be their own, and not the American style, which they don’t want and above all don’t want crammed down their throats by Americans.' –
Gen. David Shoup, United States Marine Commandant Medal of Honor recipient. (I'm proud to say Gen. Shoup was my Commandant for the first part of my time in the Corps)