Reply #38: General Smedley Darlington Butler [View All]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smedley_Butler
http://www.warisaracket.org/

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"Major General Smedley Darlington Butler (1881 ~ 1940), one of the most colorful officers in the Marine Corps' long history, was one of the two Marines who received two Medals of Honor for separate acts of outstanding heroism."
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US Marine Corp, History and Museums Division
http://hqinet001.hqmc.usmc.mil/HD/Historical/Whos_Who/Butler_SD.htm

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WAR IS A RACKET
Smedley Darlington Butler

"WAR is a racket. It always has been.

It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.

A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small "inside" group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes.

In the World War (1) a mere handful garnered the profits of the conflict. At least 21,000 new millionaires and billionaires were made in the United States during the World War. That many admitted their huge blood gains in their income tax returns. How many other war millionaires falsified their tax returns no one knows.

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http://lexrex.com/enlightened/articles/warisaracket.htm

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THE PLOT TO OVERTHROW FDR
Smedley D. Butler

"In 1932, while many Americans felt the "New Deal" was the way out of the Depression, a powerful group of financiers and industrialists saw it as a threat.
It was this group's plan to either overthrow the newly-elected president or force their agenda on him. They intended to use a paramilitary organization of disgruntled WWI veterans inspired by Marine General Smedley D. Butler to coerce the government. But Butler, discovering the details of the conspiracy, blew the whistle, triggering a Congressional investigation. Leading scholars, historians and government officials reveal the details of one of the most bizarre schemes in American history."

International Historic Films
http://www.ihffilm.com/r547.html

The Failed Coup to Overthrow President Franklin D. Roosevelt
http://liberalslikechrist.org/about/FDRcoup.html

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"Apparently, US Marine recruits are regaled with tales of Gen. Butler's heroism in boot camp. After all, the man was one of the most decorated Marines in the history of the Corps, receiving the Medal of Honor not just once, but twice.
However, they seem to leave out all the stuff about what Butler did and said AFTER he retired from the Marines.
Mike Hoffman, co-founder of IVAW and a former Marine told me about this, and how he learned the TRUE story of Smedley Butler in Howard Zinn's 'A People's History of the United States'."
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http://www.ivaw.net/

http://www.veteransforpeace.org/Smedley_Butler_photos_041203.htm