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Excellent post, F6, it's always more poignant to see personal experiences written, could only read half yesterday before
being fed up and too emotional about it all .. reminded me of Smedley Butler, who we all know so well, which led me to these ..

.. excerpt .. IxCimi -- oh come on, this all goes back to long before 1963 -- I trust you've heard of Smedley Butler? -- and before that, the 'Gilded Age'? -- as your own comment re the 'march on Rome' suggests, this ongoing back-and-forth, this extremely fundamental dialectic of social reality, between the powerful seeking absolute dominion and the rest of us fighting back for a better deal, is seemingly eternal, at least throughout the history of so-called 'Western civilization' .. http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=24850647&txt2find=smedley|butler

.. excerpt .. The list is not endless — but it is instructive.

Air Force General LeMay — who broke with Kennedy over the Cuban Missile Crisis — and was retired.

Army General Edwin Anderson Walker — who started passing out John Birch Society leaflets to his soldiers.

Marine General Smedley Butler — who revealed to Congress the makings of a plot to remove FDR as
President — and for merely being approached by the plotters, was phased out of the military hierarchy.

These careers were ended because the line between the military and the civilian is… not… to… be… crossed!
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in toto .. The great error of nearly all studies of war... has been to consider war
as an episode in foreign policies, when it is an act of interior politics... ~Simone Weil

The chain reaction of evil--wars producing more wars -- must be broken, or
we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.

War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the
most profitable, surely the most vicious. ~General Smedley Butler

Imperialism is an institution under which one nation asserts the right to seize the land
or at least to control the government or resources of another people. .. ~John T. Flynn
http://antiwar.com/quotes.php

.. excerpt .. It is crucially important that public attention is shifted away from the confining official narrative of the war, parroted by the corporate media and political pundits, to the economic crimes that have been committed because of this war, both in Iraq and here in the United States. It is time to make a moral case for restoring Iraqi oil and other assets to the Iraqis. It is also time to make a moral case against the war profiteers’ plundering of our treasury, or tax dollars. To paraphrase the late General Smedley D. Butler, most wars could easily be ended—they might not even be started—if profits are taken out of them. .. http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=19715309&txt2find=smedley|butler

War, Foreign Policy, and the Church .. excerpt ..

So what should the United States do? In the words of the late Murray Rothbard, the United States should "abandon its policy of global interventionism," "withdraw immediately and completely, militarily and politically, from everywhere," and "maintain a policy of strict political ‘isolation’ or neutrality everywhere." Political isolation is the only isolation we desire. Once we bring the troops home from around the globe, strict limits should be set to keep them home. Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler recommended a Peace Amendment that would prohibit the removal of the Army from U.S. soil, limit the distance that Navy ships could steam from our coasts, and limit the distance that military aircraft could fly from our borders.
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The last bit is interesting .. lol .. though perhaps a bit extreme.