"The US should build an ironclad defense a rat couldn't crawl through."
• (b. 30Jul1881-d. 21Jun1940 ...died just months prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor.)
• [ 34 years a Marine, staunch advocate for the enlisted man, military isolationist ]
• early critic of what was later labeled by General (President) Dwight D. Eisenhower as the military-industrial complex
• [He] aborted the fascist "Business Plot" that could have been a "military coup" to overthrow President Franklin Roosevelt.
sources:
• [ 34 years a Marine, staunch advocate for the enlisted man, military isolationist ]
• early critic of what was later labeled by General (President) Dwight D. Eisenhower as the military-industrial complex
• [He] aborted the fascist "Business Plot" that could have been a "military coup" to overthrow President Franklin Roosevelt.
sources:
• "War is Racket", Round Table Press, Inc., New York, 1936 © 1935, 2003 by the Butler Family, ISBN: 0-922915-86-5, Feral House, P.0. Box 39910, Lost Angeles, CA 90039 at www.FeralHouse.com
• Wikipdia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smedley_Butler
• Wikipdia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smedley_Butler
Warning:
"In a 1931 speech, Gen. Butler recounted a story about Ilalian Prime Minister (Duce of Fascism, Il Duce) Benito Moussolini, ...how he had run over a child with his car, and said, as he moved on, "It was only one life. What is one life in the affairs of the State."
sources:
"In a 1931 speech, Gen. Butler recounted a story about Ilalian Prime Minister (Duce of Fascism, Il Duce) Benito Moussolini, ...how he had run over a child with his car, and said, as he moved on, "It was only one life. What is one life in the affairs of the State."
sources:
• "War is Racket", Round Table Press, Inc., New York, 1936 © 1935, 2003 by the Butler Family, ISBN: 0-922915-86-5, Feral House, P.0. Box 39910, Lost Angeles, CA 90039 at http://www.FeralHouse.com
• Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smedley_Butler
• Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benito_Mussolini
• Hans Schmidt, excerpts from "Maverick Marine: General Smedley D. Butler and the Contradictions of American Military History", University Press of Kentucky (1987). Excerpts, pp. 208-211, 214 at http://coat.ncf.ca/our_magazine/links/53/butler02-by_schmidt.html
• Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smedley_Butler
• Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benito_Mussolini
• Hans Schmidt, excerpts from "Maverick Marine: General Smedley D. Butler and the Contradictions of American Military History", University Press of Kentucky (1987). Excerpts, pp. 208-211, 214 at http://coat.ncf.ca/our_magazine/links/53/butler02-by_schmidt.html
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