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Ep 4 – All Smedleys Considered

Let's Start a Coup!

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Smedley Butler - The Anti-War Critic

"I think that I've read at least as many of Butler's letters as anyone has ever read," he says. "You see pieces of this, you know, come into place over the course of his life." In a letter to his parents in which he grappled with what he was being asked to do, Smedley wrote: The blood will be on our hands.

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