RLeon
03-31-05, 10:46 PM
I was doing some research on WW1 Marines for a project. To my surprise it turns out Major General Smedley D Butler, one of the highly decorated guys who was pounded into our brain housing group in bootcamp, was politically on the left. I typed Smedley Butler in Yahoo/Google and I got a bunch of liberal anti-war websites. Based on his views about war, He would have been againts Operation Iraqi Freedom. Here's one of his quotes from his book 'War Is a Racket'
"I spent most of my time being a high class muscle-man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism."
Well, they can't all be perfect. ;)
Seriously, even though Butler would have not approved of our actions in Iraq, I don't think he would approved of the conduct of war protesters from Veitnam to now.
"I spent most of my time being a high class muscle-man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism."
Well, they can't all be perfect. ;)
Seriously, even though Butler would have not approved of our actions in Iraq, I don't think he would approved of the conduct of war protesters from Veitnam to now.