Jamie Proulx

I've been enlisted in the Marine Corps since January of 2007. I have three months to go before I EAS. I am disgusted to admit that I've served two combat deployments to Iraq. I believe that this is an illegal war and that American needs to withdraw. Too many service members are getting, and are continuing to get killed in both of these wars - all so Georgie boy and his goons can get rich. Definitly not worth my life. I originally served in hopes of being able to serve my country if an actual threat presents itself, not to fight for something that I don't believe in. Our current situation is not much different from Maj. Gen. Smedely Buttler: "I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National city Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested." -Maj. Gen. Smedely Buttler