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“I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as 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 helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912.”… That’s what Smedley Butler, the U.S. Marine Major General who refused to take part in a military coup against FDR hatched by J.P. Morgan, said about war. Now them’s real fightin’ words, not like that sissy jock talk we heard from McChrystal…
"I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as 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 helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912."... That's what Smedley Butler, the U.S. Marine Major General who refused to take part in a military coup against FDR hatched by J.P. Morgan, said about war. Now them's real fightin' words, not like that sissy jock talk we heard from McChrystal...
What You Should Know / July 2, 2010