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.
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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