“I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class thug for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. 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. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902–1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.” — Gen Smedley D. Butler
I’d pick a different guy to boast about...he’d fit in well with most Democrats. Of course, he helped push FDR. And there is some question about the existence of that “Fascist coup d’etat in 1932”.
What do you expect me to do deny that Butler said such things?
I won’t.
Ask any Marine what they think of Old Gimlet Eye and to the man they will say he was one of the greatest Marines that ever lived.