Quote of the day--on war

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."   --Major General Smedley Butler, USMC, A speech delivered in 1933

Link to original text:  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4377.htm

You owe it to yourself, and, I think, to the country to read the rest of what he wrote.  It's not that long a read.