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High atop my list of curiosities is, why exactly did the US enter WWI/The Great War? Answers are few and far between. Once in a while somebody will say the torpedoing of the Lusitania though that happened in 1915, two years before our entry. 
Well, picking up a hardcopy of Smedley Butler’s War is a Racket in Sandpiper Books last week I got an answer: money! Here is Butler’s entire quote.
An allied commission, it may be recalled, came over shortly before the war declaration and called on the president (Woodrow Wilson). The president called on a board of advisers. The head of the board spoke. This is what he told the president and his group. “There is no use kidding ourselves any longer. The cause of the allies is lost. We now owe you (1% of the day) five or six billion dollars. If we lose (and without the help of the US we must lose) we–England, Italy and France–cannot pay back the money. And Germany…won’t. So…”
Butler added that this meeting of elites, like so many others, was done without the media  present.
Intrigued? This is on page 60 of chapter five, entitled “To Hell With War”. 

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