Smedley Butler

Smedley Butler
Major General Smedley Butler was a Marine veteran and two-time recipient of the Medal of Honor. Known for his outspoken nature, Butler believed that World War II was a profitable business venture for a few millionaires, while costing thousands of people their lives. Butler ``thought of himself as a cog in the imperialist war machine”, and wrote about this, as well as many of his other beliefs regarding war, US imperialism, and fascism in the booklet ‘War is a Racket’. In 1934, he went on to research and expose a plot against President Franklin D. Roosevelt by a group of Pro-Fascists. While this was widely dismissed by Congress, an internal report from HUAC later confirmed Butler’s suspicions. [1 ]