If my views are not credible, then neither were the views of:
Gen. Douglas MacArthur
Gen. Dwight Eisenhower
Adm. Chester Nimitz
Adm. William Leahy
These are people who actually knew something about the war and about Japan.
Reverand Graham , storm of ISLAM is coming
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BillB wrote:If my views are not credible, then neither were the views of:
Gen. Douglas MacArthur
Gen. Dwight Eisenhower
Adm. Chester Nimitz
Adm. William Leahy
These are people who actually knew something about the war and about Japan.
The Commander in Chief was a civilian.
..thanks to the wisdom of the Founding Fathers.
It was time to end the war, not listen to a bunch of wanna be hero liberators.
If you’re “woke”..you’re a loser.
Re: Reverand Graham , storm of ISLAM is coming
sounds common sense to me Greg .
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War Is A Racket
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 in 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 it 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.
In the World War [I] a mere handful garnered the profits of the conflict. At least 21,000 new millionaires and billionaires were made in the United States during the World War. That many admitted their huge blood gains in their income tax returns. How many other war millionaires falsified their tax returns no one knows.
How many of these war millionaires shouldered a rifle? How many of them dug a trench? How many of them knew what it meant to go hungry in a rat-infested dug-out? How many of them spent sleepless, frightened nights, ducking shells and shrapnel and machine gun bullets? How many of them parried a bayonet thrust of an enemy? How many of them were wounded or killed in battle?
Out of war nations acquire additional territory, if they are victorious. They just take it. This newly acquired territory promptly is exploited by the few -- the selfsame few who wrung dollars out of blood in the war. The general public shoulders the bill.
And what is this bill?
This bill renders a horrible accounting. Newly placed gravestones. Mangled bodies. Shattered minds. Broken hearts and homes. Economic instability. Depression and all its attendant miseries. Back-breaking taxation for generations and generations.
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.
Smedley Darlington Butler
•Born: West Chester, Pa., July 30, 1881
•Educated: Haverford School
•Awarded two congressional medals of honor: 1.capture of Vera Cruz, Mexico, 1914
2.capture of Ft. Riviere, Haiti, 1917
•Distinguished service medal, 1919
•Major General - United States Marine Corps
•Retired Oct. 1, 1931
http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html#c1
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 in 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 it 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.
In the World War [I] a mere handful garnered the profits of the conflict. At least 21,000 new millionaires and billionaires were made in the United States during the World War. That many admitted their huge blood gains in their income tax returns. How many other war millionaires falsified their tax returns no one knows.
How many of these war millionaires shouldered a rifle? How many of them dug a trench? How many of them knew what it meant to go hungry in a rat-infested dug-out? How many of them spent sleepless, frightened nights, ducking shells and shrapnel and machine gun bullets? How many of them parried a bayonet thrust of an enemy? How many of them were wounded or killed in battle?
Out of war nations acquire additional territory, if they are victorious. They just take it. This newly acquired territory promptly is exploited by the few -- the selfsame few who wrung dollars out of blood in the war. The general public shoulders the bill.
And what is this bill?
This bill renders a horrible accounting. Newly placed gravestones. Mangled bodies. Shattered minds. Broken hearts and homes. Economic instability. Depression and all its attendant miseries. Back-breaking taxation for generations and generations.
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.
Smedley Darlington Butler
•Born: West Chester, Pa., July 30, 1881
•Educated: Haverford School
•Awarded two congressional medals of honor: 1.capture of Vera Cruz, Mexico, 1914
2.capture of Ft. Riviere, Haiti, 1917
•Distinguished service medal, 1919
•Major General - United States Marine Corps
•Retired Oct. 1, 1931
http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html#c1
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Sorry, it IS Samaritan's that is the medical and relief workers. We (our church) supports both. Filling the shoe boxes is fun and part of our weekend of service at our church was packing a million meals in a weekend. That seemed overwhelming to me when I heard it. So I signed up for it to see how in the world. I think those meals went to Haiti. It ended up that we filled plastic bags on an assembly line...rice, beans, etc. that you just put in boiling water. We all had a great time doing it. It took us 4 hours to fill an 18 wheeler. Even the kids participated...they were the "runners". Keeping us supplied, and sealing the bags and taking them over to those that were packing into the boxes.
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