In 1935, Butler said: "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 revenues 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 in 1909-1912. I
brought light to the Dominican Republic for American 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...."
"I had, as the boys in the back room would say, a swell racket.... I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was operate his racket in three city districts. We Marines operated on three continents."
"Our exploits against the American Indian, the Filipinos, the Mexicans, and against Spain are on a par with the campaigns of Genghis Khan, the Japanese in Manchuria and the African attack of Mussolini. No country has ever declared war on us before we first obliged them with that gesture. Our whole history shows we have never fought a defensive war."
Veterans who are familiar with Gen. Butlers fierce words, will only laugh at talk of glory.
On Veterans Day and during the week, there will be a lot of foolish pride in smart looking uniforms, but millions of us veterans have woken up to our having been used! Used to kill and maim and be maimed for some few desperate and weak-minded, pathetic and immoral rich folks to get richer. Not happier, just frightened and sicker. And millions more vets and their loved ones are waking up now, in spite of all the efforts of conning disinformation and war mongering by commercial entertainment/news media.
Those vets who realize they have been taken for a ride, will not be not be further taken in by ‘honors’ bestowed upon them by citizens asleep to the murder for money that is falsely hailed as 'defending our freedom’.
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