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1. The U.S. Military was fighting in Siberia after World War 1?

   If I have learned ONE TRUTH in almost 80 years it is this expressed by Smedley Butler. He was US Marine Corps major general, the highest ranking and the most decorated Marine in U.S. history. In ‘War is a Racket’ he wrote, “I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else.”

   The Antiwar Classic is even much more relevant now than when it was written in 1935. Dare speak the truth about today’s U.S. Military and you will be mocked, threatened or censored. The U.S. Military is truly today’s golden calf.

   Parents, your children will never learn this truth in government schools. Spend $5.40 (Amazon) and teach them these PRICELESS truths aboutnon-aggression and justified self-defense.

   1. In boot camp, November, 1968, I was taught that Smedley Butler was one of the great heroes of the Marine Corps. It was only years later that I learned how much a hero he was.

      He led Marines to kill the people who fought to protect their land in El Salvador, Nicaragua, and other countries that big business wanted to exploit. After many years of this, he realized that he had believed the lies he was told and was just a hired gun for the corporations. Google his address to the VFW. Powerful stuff.

      Carry on

      1. Once a Marine, yes like Paul Harvey used to say, ‘And now you know the rest of the story’. Much of what I supported for decades was on the wrong side of truth.

         I did the search. Great info on a great man. Thanks.

2. I am reminded of what Herman Goering said during the Nuremburg trials in 1945 :

   “Why, of course, the people don’t want war. Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece. Naturally, the common people don’t want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship…
   Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.”

   Love him or revile him, but in this instance he spoke the truth.

   1. Snotty boy, I so appreciate you offering this.

      Carry on

   2. What if they gave a war and no one came? Then the war will come to you.

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