http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_is_a_racket

I completely forgot (sic) that there is money to be made off any war... whether it's people we know making money, or people completely obscure to us making money, war is a profitable business.

"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."
http://www.horstwisdom.com/wiki/inde...ar_is_a_Racket

Considering who this was written by, I would put a lot of thought into what this man was saying, and I would apply it to today's situations.

Who's benefitting off the Iraq war? The Iraqi people? That's arguable. America? That is also disputable. Iran, indefinitely. And of course the ones we so easily overlook, the arms dealers. Whether they deal on behalf and at the behest of nations, or are acting on their own, there is a great many individuals and companies making money off of Iraq. Or really any war. But right now it would be Iraq.

I respect very highly all those in the armed forces, one of the oldest institutions made by man, but I believe it is necessary to question those who want power, and question indefinitely those with power.

Who has the ultimate power? Those with the ability to initiate a war, or those who can profit from a war?