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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: 10K a day who wrote (241088)	3/22/2002 9:29:37 PM
From: MSI	Respond to of 769667

Gen Butler was a principled incorruptable war hero. The Du Ponts et al tried to corrupt him, and he let them talk, then gave them the finger, and let Congress and America know what the major families and businesses were up to -- absolute amorality. Now, the book is pretty hard to find ... Here's the payoff, with relevance to today's situation, if you ever wonder why the term "fascist government" occurs to you from time to time : ---------------------------- "And what type of government would replace Roosevelt's New Deal? MacGuire was perfectly candid to Paul French, a reporter friend of General Butler's: "We need a fascist government in this country… to save the nation from the communists who want to tear it down and wreck all that we have built in America. The only men who have the patriotism to do it are the soldiers, and Smedley Butler is the ideal leader. He could organize a million men overnight." ----------------------------- --- so who were these wild-eyed treasonous bastards? The wealthy establishment, taking matters into their own hands: ----------------------------- "A military coup... to be secretly financed and organized by leading officers of the Morgan and Du Pont empires. This included some of America's richest and most famous names of the time: Irenee Du Pont - Right-wing chemical industrialist and founder of the American Liberty League, the organization assigned to execute the plot. Grayson Murphy - Director of Goodyear, Bethlehem Steel and a group of J.P. Morgan banks. William Doyle - Former state commander of the American Legion and a central plotter of the coup. John Davis - Former Democratic presidential candidate and a senior attorney for J.P. Morgan. Al Smith - Roosevelt's bitter political foe from New York. Smith was a former governor of New York and a codirector of the American Liberty League. John J. Raskob - A high-ranking Du Pont officer and a former chairman of the Democratic Party. In later decades, Raskob would become a "Knight of Malta," a Roman Catholic Religious Order with a high percentage of CIA spies, including CIA Directors William Casey, William Colby and John McCone. Robert Clark - One of Wall Street's richest bankers and stockbrokers. Gerald MacGuire - Bond salesman for Clark, and a former commander of the Connecticut American Legion. MacGuire was the key recruiter to General Butler. "