"War is a racket" is a speech and a 1935 short book by Smedley D. Butler, a retired United States Marine Corps Major General and two-time Medal of Honor recipient. Based on his career military experience, Butler discusses how business interests commercially benefit from warfare. He had been appointed commanding officer of the Gendarmerie during the 1915–1934 United States occupation of Haiti.

Prescott bish tried to get smedly butler to take half a million veterans and taken over D.C. around 1935. He reported it. Bush became a senator.

Everything is a rich man's trick.