Gen. Smedley Butler On War Profit
by K Scott Teeters
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Gen. Smedley Butler On War Profit
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K Scott Teeters
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Digital Art - Digital Graphics
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In his time, Marine Corp General, Smedley D. Butler was the most decorated American military man. General Butler had received 16 medals, five for heroism. He is one of 19 men to receive the Medal of Honor twice, one of three to be awarded both the Marine Corps Brevet Medal and the Medal of Honor, and the only Marine to be awarded the Brevet Medal and two Medals of Honor, all for separate actions.
General Butler was also a true patriot. In 1933, he became involved in a controversy known as the Business Plot, when he told a congressional committee that a group of wealthy industrialists were planning a military coup to overthrow Franklin D. Roosevelt. The industrialists wanted the general be be their puppet dictator!
The individuals involved all denied the existence of a plot and the media ridiculed the allegations. A final report by a special House of Representatives Committee confirmed some of Butler's testimony. The industrialists lied, General Butler told the truth!
In 1935, Butler wrote a book entitled War Is a Racket, where he described and criticized the workings of the United States in its foreign actions and wars, such as those he was a part of, including the American corporations and other imperialist motivations behind them.
If anyone knew the inner working of the American military machine and for whom the military does their bidding, it was General Smedley Butler. In light of the modern industrial-military complex, his quote is profound, "We must take the profit out of war."
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