All Wars are Bankers' Wars

I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high-class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street, and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. Smedly D. Buttler, a retired United States Marine Corps Major General and two-time Medal of Honor recipient who wrote the book "War  Is a Racket" (1935).