The American Lesion

(Like your freedoms?  Thank this guy, General Butler.)

Well, well, well.  I see that the goosesteppers running the American Legion are all hot and bothered about John Edwards telling the truth about Iraq.

Those boys are just begging to have their dirty anti-American laundry laid out for all to see, aren’t they?  Rick Perlstein, with assists from Digby and Jonathan of A Tiny Revolution, dumps out the first basket right here.

And I’m going to display the contents of the second basket, by reminding everyone that the American Legion was part of the 1934 plot to overthrow Roosevelt and set up a fascist, Hitler-friendly régime in his place, with Marine General Smedley Butler as the figurehead leader.  Too bad for them that Butler was a real American who detested fascism — he played along just long enough to figure out who and what was involved, then spilled the beans to Congress.