Its hard to believe that even the French would believe this crap, wait no it isn't.
John Kerry, Jr.
Sounds like some hairy french chick put out for Massey so he aGREED to the book.
Got a story so stupid, so ridiculous and unbelievable that even the most vapor-locked idiot wouldn't believe it? Sell it in France.
A book to sale...lol
mise à mort de mise à mort de mise à mort
Leave it to the French. Couldn't find a publisher here in the states? What? Not even the NYT would buy this story?
She was clearly mistaken in her understanding of what happened in New Orleans, but the reading public in the United Kingdom ate this stuff up like there was no end.
So did America's main stream media!
I'd doubt the Mr. Massey was a Marine or that Natasha Saulnier is a journalist. That'd be my first reaction these days.
What about atrocities in our own government?
full story (more like fairy tale)
He served 3mos in Iraq and suffers from PTSD....alrighty then..
Enough said.
Little Jimmy is in Paris shacked up with a French broad that "writes" books and is going to have his "book" published in France...ah...sorry pal, you've no credibility. Especially if you're suffering from "post traumatic stress syndrome." Creep! Everybody gets that stuff nowadays.
Iraq veteran Jimmy Massey speaks to the WSWS (World Socialist Web Site)
“We’re committing genocide in Iraq”
By Jeff Riedel
11 November 2004
Former Staff Sergeant Jimmy Massey, a 12-year Marine veteran, lives in Waynesville, North Carolina, a small town in the Smoky Mountains just outside of Ashville, where he spoke to the World Socialist Web Site. He is one of a growing number of American soldiers returning from Iraq who have become outspoken opponents of the war.
Massey entered Iraq as part of the initial US invasion in March 2003. He witnessed—and in some cases participated in—the killing of innocent civilians. During a single 48-hour period, he says, he saw as many as 30 civilians killed by US gunfire at highway checkpoints.
Photo here...
http://tinyurl.com/86wbl
Again, some lib uses a word like genocide and it weakens the actual meaning.
Ok, where are all the resident Marines on FR.
Going by the article, as a Platoon Sergeant is not his job to make sure things go right and all rules are followed? If atrocities occurred, then I would think he was the one that allowed them to go on. Why is it most of former soldiers that claim the occurrence of atrocities are usually Officers and NCOs? Its like a company getting caught for fraud and the manager of that area pointing the finger at everybody below them. Lack of Leadership I'd say.
Massey said "a bunch of innocent civilians" were killed by his platoon and he attributed these deaths in part to military intelligence reports warning of potential terrorist attacks by non-uniformed Iraqis.
"You put a bunch of Army or Marines out in the desert and tell them to guard these supposed terrorists, and they're going to start inventing ways to keep themselves busy," Massey said.
Massey lost his swagger in Iraq, was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder, received a discharge, and began decrying war crimes — first to French media, but increasingly in the United States. Sgt. Massey thanks, to left-wing blogs, the months to come look to be even more exciting.
The domestic buzz began with an interview that Massey gave to anti-war activist Paul Rockwell for the Sacramento Bee.
Massey relates: "Trigger happy" American military personnel throwing the corpses of Iraqi civilians in a ditch. Orders from "senior government officials" to wipe out peaceful demonstrators. Marines firing on Iraqi motorists with their hands up at checkpoints. "Fallujah is just littered with civilian bodies." The 31-year-old sergeant told his commanding officer, "We're committing genocide."
One year to the day after he was pulled from his duty as a recruiter in North Carolina, Massey approached his commanding officer in Iraq confessing depression. The next stop was a visit to a Navy psychiatrist.
"I was the ultimate war machine, all blood and guts. I was embarrassed. I was supposed to be able to handle it."
"He told me, 'You're a poor leader,' 'You're faking it,' 'You're a conscientious objector,' 'You're a wimp,'" said Massey. "You don't respond to that. You just stand there and take it. But my sanity was not worth the U.S. Marine Corps."
Massey spent the next six months or so in California, apparently sorting out his discharge, with a lawyer "who defended American soldiers after the Mai Lai attack in Vietnam." On November 14, he received the verdict that his would be "a medical retirement."
"An Iraqi Vehicle drives at 45MPH toward a check point and doesn't respond or slow down to warning fire, then they fire into the vehicle."
Sounds like strict rules of engagement stuff.
So would it be better to give the idiot Iraqi the benefit of the doubt and not think they have 500 pounds of c-4 in the trunk?