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Marine who confessed to abuses lied to gain celebrity
St. Louis Post-Dispatch via Salt Lake Tribune ^ | 11/6/2005 | Ron Harris

Posted on 11/06/2005 5:25:33 AM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity

WASHINGTON - For more than a year, former Marine Staff Sgt. Jimmy Massey has been telling anybody who would listen about the atrocities that he and other Marines committed in Iraq.

In scores of newspaper, magazine and broadcast stories, at a Canadian immigration hearing and in numerous speeches across the country, Massey told how he and other Marines recklessly, sometimes intentionally killed dozens of innocent Iraqi civilians.

Among his claims:
Marines fired on and killed peaceful Iraqi protesters.
Americans shot a 4-year-old Iraqi girl in the head.
Tractor-trailers were filled with the bodies of civilian men, women and children killed by American artillery.

Massey's claims have gained him celebrity. Last month, Massey's book, Kill, Kill, Kill, was released in France. His allegations have been reported in nationwide publications such as Vanity Fair and USA Today, as well as numerous broadcast reports. Earlier this year, he joined the anti-war bus tour of Cindy Sheehan and he's spoken at Cornell and Syracuse universities, among others.

News organizations worldwide published or broadcast Massey's claims without any corroboration and in most cases without investigation. Outside of the Marines, almost no one has seriously questioned whether Massey, a 12-year veteran who was honorably discharged, was telling the truth.

He wasn't.

Each of his claims is either demonstrably false or exaggerated - according to his fellow Marines, Massey's own admissions, and the five journalists who were embedded with Massey's unit, including a reporter and photographer from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and reporters from the Associated Press and the Wall Street Journal.

Massey, 34, was discharged in December 2003, shortly after returning from Iraq due to depression and post-traumatic stress syndrome.

He began turning up in the press and broadcast last spring with stories about military atrocities. Massey's primary thrust has been that Marines from his battalion - some of whom, he told a Minneapolis audience were ''psychopathic killers'' - recklessly shot and killed Iraqi civilians, sometimes, he said, upon orders from their commanders.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: friendofcindysheehan; jimmymassey; lefistliars; leftistlies; leftistsedition; marineliedabuse; mediabias; msmbias; traitor; treason
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity

This guy is a scumbag and a traitor.


101 posted on 11/06/2005 2:06:21 PM PST by Mad_Tom_Rackham (De gustibus non est disputandum.)
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To: Nip

This story would make a great movie. Show the REAL activities in Iraq, then follow Sgt Massey back to the states and show his speeches, the elevation by the press, his books, his following.

That would be sweet. Maybe release it right after Kerry declares his bid for President again.


102 posted on 11/06/2005 2:15:41 PM PST by gitmo (Thanks, Mel. I needed that.)
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity; jan in Colorado
...Massey's own admissions...

Any details on this part?

103 posted on 11/06/2005 2:37:08 PM PST by Gondring (I'll give up my right to die when hell freezes over my dead body!)
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity

Later posted here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1516840/posts


104 posted on 11/06/2005 2:46:35 PM PST by Gondring (I'll give up my right to die when hell freezes over my dead body!)
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity

Execute him.


105 posted on 11/06/2005 2:49:06 PM PST by rwfromkansas (http://www.xanga.com/rwfromkansas)
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity

Like all liberal scum who will say/do anything to get their fifteen minutes ....


106 posted on 11/06/2005 2:53:12 PM PST by Ed_in_NJ (Who killed Suzanne Coleman?)
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To: gitmo

It would be a great movie. It would have to be an independent film, Hollywood would have it buried. And don't bother showing at Sundance or Caans. It would be tough to publicize it because of the 98% liberal ownership of the entertainment industry, but it sure would be worth it.


107 posted on 11/06/2005 2:54:54 PM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity ("Sharpei diem - Seize the wrinkled dog.")
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To: Ed_in_NJ

No kidding. In five years, I'd like to ask this bastard if the speech money, steak dinners, and free travel around the country was worth it. I'd bet the house and lot that the answer would be "no", although I'm sure he'd lie about that, too. He knows he's a liar and everything he got for it was done fraudulently. He can't escape his own head and I hope he suffers every day. In the end, it won't be worth it.


108 posted on 11/06/2005 2:57:52 PM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity ("Sharpei diem - Seize the wrinkled dog.")
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity

Drag his sorry butt to the nearest Marine Base and try him for war crimes based on his confessions in his book.

Then ask his former service mates if any would like to volunteer to be part of the firing squad.


109 posted on 11/06/2005 3:08:52 PM PST by Grizzled Bear (My wife said I shouldn't verbally abuse my subordinates. So I switched to physical.)
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To: catmanblack.

Next, we will be hearing this scumbag, in a fake JFK accent, compare the actions of the Marines to those of Genghis ("Jen-jis") Kahn.


110 posted on 11/06/2005 3:29:49 PM PST by Bigg Red (Do not trust Democrats with national security!)
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To: kcvl

Staff Sergeant Jim Massey

**
Looks a lot like Cindi.


111 posted on 11/06/2005 3:31:29 PM PST by Bigg Red (Do not trust Democrats with national security!)
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity

This POS pisses me off, too.


112 posted on 11/06/2005 5:24:44 PM PST by elli1
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity

I see he attempted to follow the Kerry plan and failed.


113 posted on 11/06/2005 7:06:09 PM PST by Homer1
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To: battlegearboat

Repressed memory caught my attention...then he is writing a book with the French? Scam!


114 posted on 11/06/2005 8:16:21 PM PST by Milligan
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To: Milligan

If he's consorting with the French, it's gotta be on the level.


115 posted on 11/06/2005 8:23:47 PM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity ("Sharpei diem - Seize the wrinkled dog.")
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity

The French are not to be trusted.

I bet they're behind the "No Blood for Oil" anti-war protest. In the UN Food for Oil Report, France had a favorable trading status with Saddam's Regime.

France owns most of the uranium mines in Niger according to the Senate Intell Report.
Wilson is loyal to the French not to the US. Smell the money trail.


116 posted on 11/06/2005 8:34:30 PM PST by Milligan
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To: Just mythoughts

I think I've heard about this before.

Didn't he shoot all these Iraqi civilians while on a secret trip to Cambodia with Stephen Pitkin?


117 posted on 11/07/2005 1:20:35 AM PST by patriciaruth (They are all Mike Spanns)
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To: q_an_a

He broke faith. He is NOT a former-marine. He is an ex-marine


118 posted on 11/07/2005 1:32:22 AM PST by Uriah_lost (We aren't pro-war, we're PRO-VICTORY!)
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To: Uriah_lost

too right!!


119 posted on 11/07/2005 3:04:16 PM PST by q_an_a
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity; doug from upland; AnnaZ

Bookmark,
Maybe we should contact the distributors of his, "faked but real documentary." (trademark dan rather and cbs).

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120 posted on 11/08/2005 6:32:37 AM PST by jokar (On line data base http://www.trackingthethreat.com/db/index.htm)
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