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 purifly Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-12. 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... . Looking back on it, I feel I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three city districts. We Marines operated on three continents. - General Smedley Butler. THEY never hide what THEY DO, but we refuse to learn. Our people in Libya will not be in the current mess, if only they have studied OUR history and remember where WE got LOST! WE continue to believe the rhetoric they spew in OUR faces!
Posted on: Sun, 07 Sep 2014 09:45:37 +0000
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