Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

November 12, 2009

In 1935, Major General Smedley Butler wrote: ?War is a racket.?. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives?. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes.?

A November 11 New York Times story illustrated that fact by describing the huge personal war fortune made by Peter W. Galbraith. Ambassador Galbraith, who persuaded key Democrats to support the Iraq war, also helped draft the sections of the new Iraqi constitution dealing with the country?s oil wealth.

Now Galbraith is poised to reap tens of millions of dollars on account of the same constitutional provisions he helped write.

Jay Graner, who headed Iraq?s transitional government, and Zalmay Khalidad, former US ambassador to Baghdad, are also cashing inwith lucrative Iraqi consulting contracts. And hundreds made huge fortunes during the so-called post-war reconstruction.

It is an enduring obscenity to see innocent people killed to line the pockets of war profiteers.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.