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In reply to the discussion: The Military ruined this country [View all]Bigmack
(8,020 posts)I "served" my country for 4 years... Marine Corps... during that time, I never.. NEVER... not for one second... served or protected the US.
I killed and brutalized darker people, I was the muscle for the MIC..
My generals tell it all...
War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious.
I spent 33 years in the Marines. Most of my time being a high-class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer for capitalism.
Gen. Smedley Butler, USMC two time Medal of Honor recipient. 8 Purple Hearts
`I believe that if we had and would keep our dirty, bloody, dollar soaked fingers out of the business of these (Third World) nations so full of depressed, exploited people, they will arrive at a solution of their own. And if unfortunately their revolution must be of the violent type because the `haves' refuse to share with the `have-nots' by any peaceful method, at least what they get will be their own, and not the American style, which they dont want and above all dont want crammed down their throats by Americans.'
Gen. David Shoup, United States Marine Commandant...Medal of Honor recipient.... 2 Purple Hearts (I'm proud to say that Gen Shoup was my Commandant during the first part of my time in.)