{"id":129,"date":"2006-03-11T13:44:40","date_gmt":"2006-03-11T17:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/2006\/03\/11\/military-families-iraq-vets-vets-for"},"modified":"2006-09-11T21:06:38","modified_gmt":"2006-09-12T01:06:38","slug":"military-families-iraq-vets-vets-for-peace-and-a-guy-named-kerry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/2006\/03\/11\/military-families-iraq-vets-vets-for-peace-and-a-guy-named-kerry\/","title":{"rendered":"Military families, Iraq Vets, Vets for Peace, and a guy named Kerry."},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a> Last Night @ Kennedy School of Government
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Military Families Speak Out<\/a> , Iraq Veterans Against the War<\/a> , and Veterans for Peace<\/a>
\ngathered outside Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government last night in response to a guy named Kerry being invited inside. A particular favorite of mine is Greater Boston chapter of Vets for Peace called the Smedley Butler Brigade. Major General Butler was at the time of his death the most decorated U.S. Marine in history and possibly the first to describe the military-industrial complex in his 1935 book War is a Racket<\/a>…
\nIt always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most
\nvicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits
\nare reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.<\/p>\n

A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority
\nof the people. Only a small “inside” group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the
\nbenefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make
\nhuge fortunes.
\n[The Brigade at Faneuil Hall<\/a> , Boston Common. Smedley’s Wikipedia Page.
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This woman is not a Gold Star Mother. May she not become one.<\/p>\n

They were all saying the same thing:<\/p>\n

BRING THEM HOME NOW!!!<\/font><\/a><\/div>\n

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