[AM2000]

I spent thirty-three years and four months in active military service as a member of this country's most agile military force, the Marine Corps. I served in all commissioned ranks from Second Lieutenant to Major-General. And during that period, 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.

http://junior.apk.net/~halder/iraq.html

He claims to have been a Marine?

[Celtjew Libertarian]

What's more... he claims to have been a major-general. Hardly the very model....

[Reily]

Halder ripped that off from a Marine general of the 1920's & early 1930's, Smedley Butler. This guy was 'odd' to say the least though as a marine his career was quite extraordinary. I believed Butler did run as a socialist candidate for president in 1932. (or was at least asked to !)

[TomGuy]

Also from Halder's website -- this strange paragraph:

I helped make Mexico, 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 benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912 (where have I heard that name before?). I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested.

[If he is 52 or 62, he certainly would not have participated in those above dates because he wouldn't even has been born then.]

[Timesink]

He claims to have been a Marine?

I know it's probably not true, but...

"Do any of you people know who Charles Whitman was?"

No response.

"None of you dumbasses knows? Private Cowboy?"

"Sir! He was that guy who shot all those people from that tower in Austin, Texas, sir!"

"That's affirmative! Charles Whitman killed twenty people from a twenty-eight-story observation tower at the University of Texas from distances up to four hundred yards! Anybody know who Lee Harvey Oswald was? Private Snowball?"

"Sir! He shot Kennedy, sir!"

"That's right! And do you know how far away he was?"

"Sir! It was pretty far! From that book suppository building, sir!"

The recruits laugh at "suppository. "

"All right, knock it off! Two hundred and fifty feet! He was two hundred and fifty feet away and shooting at a moving target! Oswald got off three rounds with an old Italian bolt action rifle in only six seconds and scored two hits, including a head shot! Do any of you people know where these individuals learned to shoot? Private Joker?"

"Sir, in the Marines, sir!"

"In the Marines! Outstanding! Those individuals showed what one motivated marine and his rifle can do! And before you ladies leave my island, you will be able to do the same thing!"