Which MARINE CORP HERO TRIED TO OVERTHROW THE US GOVERNMENT?
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The Plot to Size the White House\n\nIt was not Marine General Smedley Darligton Butler (as you are thinking); he exposed the plot that tried to recruit him as America's Fascist Mussolini Dictator to depose President Franklin D. Roosevelt\n\nhttp://www.clubhousewreckards.com/plot/ptstwh1theplot.htm\n\nhttp://www.clubhousewreckards.com/plot/ptstwh2theindispensableman.htm\n\nhttp://www.rense.com/general66/butler.htm\n\nhttp://www.rense.com/general69/crossroads.htm
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11th Marine Expeditionary Unit\n\ncheck out thier website, its pretty cool
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Best for a future? the Air Force, best for pride? The Marine Corps. For me sir, it was the Marines...Semper Fi. As far as I am concerned, there is no other choice, but not everyone is cut out for life in my Corps. We are "the Few, The Proud" for a damn good reason. And I agree, whats up with the guy who asked, if your scores are high enough? What a jerk, quick history lesson for you, the United States Marine Corps is technically older than the United States Government, we were brought in to service November 10, 1775. We (the USA) formally declared independence in 1776. Without the USMC, there would be no Air Force.
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The liberal media will never be satisfied. They hate our country too much to care what happens to innocent Marines. They've already tried and hung them. They're not going to say I'm sorry and be all apologetic. They're going to bring up something else that they think is wrong with the military or the Bush Administration, and keep those Marines in jail even longer. They have such an intense hatred of anything Bush or anything that's right, that they couldn't imagine supporting the military. My brother's a Marine, in the same division. He knows the corpsman. The corpsman told Tim (my brother) that they weren't even close to the place where that incident happened. It's an outrage that someone could be so unAmerican.
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Some think it was MSG John Valdez.  Actually, while he may have officially been the last soldier out, there were US Diplomats behind him.  There may also still have been soldiers in Vietnam alive when he left.
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Jimmy Carter.  He froze oil prices and caused gasoline shortages. He tried to rescue americans held hostage in Iran with a military excursion that was so badly planned, it killed soldiers in a desert.  The country saw double-digit inflation rates during his watch.  It was horrible.
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The book you are looking for may be "BROTHERHOOD OF ARMS: General Dynamics and the Business of Defending America" Author: Goodwin, Jacob. Published by New York Times Books 1985.  \n\nHere's a description from TomFolio.com: "A thought-provoking book about powerful, ambitious, and strong-willed men; about American big business at its most competitive; about the interesection of economics, politics, international affairs, and national security. . .also it charts the motives--both noble and evil--of the men who arm America. Gets deep into accusations, illegal kickbacks, fraud charges, the corporate headquarters, grand jury hearing rooms, accusations and denials, & much more. "\n\nThere is another book about the scandal called "Running critical : the silent war, Rickover, and General Dynamics" \nAuthor: Tyler, Patrick. Publication: New York : Harper & Row, 1986. \n\nThere is a description of this book at amazon.com.
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Yes, and what about Congressman Jefferson? Now they are playing the race card. They try and take down everyone in Bush's cabinet, before they are found guilty. The left media hacks all week just slaughtering our marines before the facts are out. These 3 get treated with kid gloves and probably charged with nothing. I can't believe I used to be a Democrat.
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the one about american forces overthrowing some demmocratically elected latino president
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Happy Birthday Marines. Here's one from Ollie North:\n\nOliver North: No More Heroes? \nDecember 16, 2004 \n\nWashington, D.C. - "It's stuff you hear about in boot camp, about World War II and Tarawa Marines who won the Medal of Honor," Lance Corporal Rob Rogers of the 1st Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment told the Army Times. Corporal Rogers was describing the actions of his fellow Marine, Sgt. Rafael Peralta, a Mexican immigrant who enlisted in the Marine Corps the day he received his green card. \n\nMost readers of this column probably haven't heard about Rafael Peralta. With the exception of the Los Angeles Times, most of our mainstream media haven't bothered to write about him. The next time you log onto the Internet, do a Google search on Rafael Peralta. As of this writing, the Internet's most used search engine will provide you with only 26 citations from news sources that have bothered to write about this heroic young man. Then, just for giggles, do a Google search on Pablo Paredes. Hundreds of media outlets have written about him. The wire services have blasted his story to thousands of newspapers. Television and radio debate programs gladly provide the public with talking heads that can speak eloquently on the actions of Pablo Paredes. \n\nYou see, Pablo Paredes, a Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class, did something the liberal elites consider "heroic" and the media consider "newsworthy" - he defied an order. Last week, Paredes refused to board his ship bound for Iraq along with 5,000 other sailors and Marines. He showed up on the pier wearing a black tee shirt that read, "Like a Cabinet member, I resign." \n\nWe know this because Petty Officer Pablo Paredes had the courtesy and forethought to notify the local media that he would commit an act of cowardice the following day. Perhaps he hoped to follow the lead of another famous war protestor who went on to become a U.S. Senator and his party's presidential nominee by throwing away his military medals. Petty Officer Paredes stopped short of trashing his military I.D. in front of the cameras because he said he didn't want to be charged with the destruction of government property. The media, we are promised, will continue to follow this story intently. \n\nIt is a shame that the media focus on such acts when they could tell stories about real heroes like Rafael Peralta who "saved the life of my son and every Marine in that room," according to Garry Morrison the father of a Marine in Peralta's unit - Lance Cpl. Adam Morrison. \n\nOn the morning of November 15, 2004, the men of 1st Battalion, 3rd Marines awoke before sunrise and continued what they had been doing for seven days previously - cleansing the city of Fallujah of terrorists house by house. \n\nAt the fourth house they encountered that morning the Marines kicked in the door and "cleared" the front rooms, but then noticed a locked door off to the side that required inspection. Sgt. Rafael Peralta threw open the closed door, but behind it were three terrorists with AK-47s. Peralta was hit in the head and chest with multiple shots at close range. \n\nPeralta's fellow Marines had to step over his body to continue the shootout with the terrorists. As the firefight raged on, a "yellow, foreign-made, oval-shaped grenade," as Lance Corporal Travis Kaemmerer described it, rolled into the room where they were all standing and came to a stop near Peralta's body. \n\nBut Sgt. Rafael Peralta wasn't dead - yet. This young immigrant of 25 years, who enlisted in the Marines when he received his green card, who volunteered for the front line duty in Fallujah, had one last act of heroism in him. \n\nSgt. Rafael Peralta was the polar opposite of Pablo Paredes, the Petty Officer who turned his back on his shipmates and mocked his commander in chief. Peralta was proud to serve his adopted country. In his parent's home, on his b
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What crime did he ever commit against the US?
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Bill Clinton answered that when he basically did nothing about the attack on the USS Cole. Liberals hate anything military (more or less)
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No...I heard of a coup attempt to overthrow Bush though. The Democrats are at it now.
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To quote Marine Gen. Smedley Darlington Butler about Iraq:\n\nAddressing the Third U.S. Congress Against War and Fascism in Cleveland on January 3, 1936 he urged strict neutrality: See that our Congress writes into law a command that no American soldier, sailor or Marine be used for any purpose except to protect the coastline of the United States, and protect his home-and I mean, his home-not an oil well in Iraq, a British investment in China, a sugar plantation in Cuba, a silver mine in Mexico, a glass factory in Japan, an American-owned share of stock in a European factory-in short, not an American investment anywhere except at home! . . . Let Congress say to all foreign investors: "Come on home or let your money stay out of the country-we will not defend it."
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Osama Bin Laden. The Sultanate of Oman threw his sorry ass out of there because he tried to rip off Oman of it's myrrh futures.
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War stories from his time in the Marines.\nThat's English Marines not American.
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There was one and only one US Marine killed during Operation Just Cause (Panama Invasion). CPL Garreth C. Isaak, 2nd Marine Division, from Greenville SC. I don't recall his name being featured in Black Hawk Down, but I guess it is possible, though as one poster pointed out that would be a bit odd. (Why would a Marine's name from an invasion of Panama nearly a decade earlier be part of a movie about an Army Operation half a world away?). P.S. If you know why this was done - please e-mail me, I am very curious. Sounds like one of those great pieces of trivia I can unload on my friends - :-)