War Is A Business… Smedley D.
Butler was a great man.
The world would be a terrible place without him.
A true democrat, when that actually meant something.
Smedley Butler was approached by industrialist robber barons who proposed he lead 500,000 veteran men to intimidate the government in 1933 to install a fascist dictatorship.
Smedley tricked the plotters into thinking he was interested for just long enough until he was sure he knew who the real players were before he told the president and congressional committee.
This is what he said,