For A Great Many Years,

...the War (wwi) Cost Your Uncle Sam $52 Billion. $39 Billion Was Expended In The Actual War Period. This Expenditure Yielded $16 Billion In Profits.

War Is A Racket : I Suspected I Was Just Part Of A Racket At The Time. Now I Am Sure Of It. Like All Members Of The Military Profession I Never Had An Original Thought Until I Left The Service. My Mental Faculties Remained In Suspended Animation While I Obeyed The Orders Of The Higher- Ups. This Is Typical With Everyone In The Military Service

I Selected An Enormous Marine Corps Emblem To Be Tattooed Across My Chest. It Required Several Sittings And Hurt Me Like The Devil, But The Finished Product Was Worth The Pain. I Blazed Triumphantly Forth, A Marine From Throat To Waist. The Emblem Is Still With Me. Nothing On Earth But Skinning Will Remove It.

It Is Dressed Into Speeches About Patriotism, Love Of Country...but The Profits...skyrocket.

I Helped Make Mexico, Especially Tampico, Safe For American Oil Interests In 1914. I Helped Make Haiti And Cuba A Decent Place For The National City Bank Boys To Collect Revenues In. I Helped In The Raping Of Half A Dozen Central American Republics For The Benefits Of Wall Street. The Record Of Racketeering Is Long. I Helped Purify Nicaragua For The International Banking House Of Brown Brothers In 1909-1912. I Brought Light To The Dominican Republic For American Sugar Interests In 1916. In China I Helped To See To It That Standard Oil Went Its Way Unmolested.