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War Like Any Other Racket, Pays High Dividends To The Very Few. The Cost Of Operations Is Always Transferred To The People Who Do Not Profit.

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.

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.

I Had A Swell Racket. I Was Rewarded With Honors, Medals, Promotions. L Might Have Given Al Capone A Few Hints. The Best He Could Do Was To Operate A Racket In Three City Districts. The Marines Operated On Three Continents.

I Served In All Commissioned Ranks From 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, A Gangster For Capitalism.