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Thought for the day ... some things never change
I spent most of my time as a high-class muscle-man for big business, for Wall Street, and the bankers. . . . Thus, I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenue in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. . . . In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested."
-- Marine Lt. General Smedley Butler, ... Winner of TWO Congressional Medals of Honor

UPDATE on the American Empire: As the year 2004 began, the USA had 725 military bases spread over 120 countries. Like Rome's legionaires, US troops risk their lives so that fat-cat draft dodgers, like Dick Cheney, can get even richer than they already are.

posted by LoZo 1:01 PM