War is a Racket - General Speaks Out 1935


	War is a Racket - General Speaks Out 1935

redbone

11-30-2007 6:15 PM

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war, war on terror, anti-war, peace, quote, quotes, military industrail complex

redbone says:

Haliburton anyone?

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