I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown…

Smedley Butler
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I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested. ✨ Smedley D. Butler (2003). War is a Racket: The Antiwar Classic by America's Most Decorated Soldier, Feral House
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