Seems even more relevant today that it did when he made his famous speeches in the 1930s. This is the guy who blew the lid off the coup attempt by Bush Junior's grandpappy, Senator Prescott Bush.

"War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. 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. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small 'inside' group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes."
History of General Smedley Butler, USMC, (Double Medal of Honor Winner)

Butler's book online, "War is a Racket"