[Non-Sequitur]

It was going to use the surplus navy ships that were no longer needed with the war over.

Only 150,000? Gee, that wouldn't make much of a dent, would it? Didn't Butler read the Mitchell memo? I doubt that there would have been enough surplus ships to get 150,000 people plus supplies over there. And did Butle give any thought to what they would do if those 150,000 people said that they didn't want to go?

[GOPcapitalist]

Didn't Butler read the Mitchell memo? I doubt that there would have been enough surplus ships to get 150,000 people plus supplies over there.

Look it up in his book. I'm simply relating what he did write about and that included a plan to colonize 150,000 of them in panama to dig a canal. He seemed to suggest that the 150,000 number was obtainable using surplus military ships.