We are taught all our lives that our modern political systems are "by
and for the people." In order to justify taking us to war, then, our
misleaders have to convince us that war is not a racket, as General
Smedley Butler revealed, and is not for the benefit of the
industrialists who sell the munitions or the politicians in their back
pocket or the financiers that own them both, but in the interest of the
average man or woman. In other words, they lie through their teeth.
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