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They're out there, this appalling idea that there are companies that profit - not just profit but profit enormously - through war.

When war comes, two things happen - profits go way, way up and all perishables go way, way down. There becomes a market for them.

Here's the problem: Profiteers haunt America, and for everything we try to control, someone's going to profit from it, more than you control it.

Let us wage a moral and political war against war itself, so that we can cut military spending and use that money for human needs.

Let us wage a moral and political war against the billionaires and corporate leaders, on Wall Street and elsewhere, whose policies and greed are destroying the middle class of America.

We should wage war not to win war, but to win peace.

We must adjust our value systems and work to modify today's societies, in which economic interests are carried to the extreme and irrationally produce not merely objects, but weapons of war. These societies don't care about the destruction of the planet and mankind as long as they earn profits - it can't go on like this.

Let us not be defeated by the tyranny of the world financial markets that threaten peace and democracy everywhere.

Our position should not be on how to eliminate the competition at all expenses, but we should focus on what we're going to do in order to make sure that Americans turn to the road of prosperity with the trajectory of capitalism, because making a profit is not an evil.