| Glenn \(Christian Mystic\) 2006-03-27, 5:30 pm |
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"Edward Dike, III" <edd(2+1)remove_removes@qwestion.net> wrote in message
news:pGabf.65$Dy2.1711@news.uswest.net...
> Oooppps!!!
> http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/a...RTICLE_ID=47174
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Yes "ooooppps" you quote a "Maj. Gen." who shamefully forgot his experience,
and bought into anti-government crap.
> | People who have accepted the US propaganda that says the US military
> | protects our freedom, should know that: Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler
> | (former Commandant, U.S. Marine Corps) had the courage to write:
> |
> | "I spent thirty-three years and four months in active service in the
> | country's most agile military force, the Marines. I served in all ranks
> | from second lieutenant to major general. And during that period I spent
> | most of my time being a high-class muscle man for Big Business, for
> | Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster
> | for capitalism.
> |
> | "I suspected I was just part of a racket at the time. Now I am sure of
> | it. Like all members
> | of the military profession I never had an original thought until I left
> | the service. My mental
> | faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of
> | the higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military service.
> |
> | "Thus I helped make Mexico, and especially Tampico, safe for American
> | oil interests in 1914. "I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for
> | the National City Bank boys to collect revenue in. I helped in the
> | raping of half-a-dozen Central American republics for the benefit of
> | Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify
> | Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers and Co.
> | in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the sugar
> | interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras 'right' for American fruit
> | companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard
> | Oil went its way unmolested.
> |
> | "During those years, I had, as the boys in the back room would say, a
> | swell racket. I was rewarded with honors, medals, and promotion.
> | Looking back on it, I feel that I might have given Al Capone a few
> | hints. The best he could do was to operate a racket in three city
> | districts. The Marines operated on three continents."
> |
> | ---------------------------------------
> | Amazon.com:
> |
> | Smedley D. Butler is the author of:
> | War Is a Racket: The Anti-War Classic by America's Most Decorated
> | General,
> | Two Other Anti=Interventionist Tracts, and
> | Photographs from the Horror of It, Adam Parfrey (Introduction)
> | (Paperback - April 2003)
> |
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