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On Fri, 12 Feb 1999, Lucio Benedetto wrote:
Butler not only refused to join in the Roosevelt coup, he was also apalled
by the use of the military and the national guard to put down legal strikes
and oppress union organizers. He was also a loud opponent of American
-Caveat Lector-
General Smedley Butler on life in the military, 1935:
"I spent thirty-three years and four months in active service in the
country's most agile military force, the Marines. I served in all ranks from
second lieutenant to major general. And during that period I spent most of
