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.
The article doesn't say what kind of discharge he got. I hope he at least got an other-than-honorable so that he can't get any veteran's benefits. This guy is a scumbag of the highest order.
Sorry if already posted, I did do a search on title and different keywords.
Perhaps he didn't say anything before.
Traitor.
I say hang the b@$tard...
the MSM will ignore this end of the story... now that they've gotten mileage from this crap...
Paging John Kerry. John Kerry, please call your campaign headquarters ...
We'll just have to keep an eye on this fella.
Give the Dispatch some credit. We'll see how widely this gets distributed.
Isn't it curious that the reporters embedded with him never spoke up at the time?
Whoops, I just locked in on the second-to-last paragraph, good catch. Now I am ticked off!!
sounds like this guy is the future for the democrat party
Curious? Yes. Surprizing? No.
Yep, I missed that. Thanks.
A future John Kerry! Can a run for the Senate be far ahead of this valorous principled outspoken war hero?
Elect Frank J. Gonzalez Democrat for United States Representative District 21 Florida in 2006
"Frank Supports U.S. Marine's Efforts to Alert the Public, 8-12-5"
Frank & Iraq occupation veteran & U.S. Marines recruiter Staff Sergeant Jim Massey, 33, on his first night in Miami before giving his presentation to supporters on deceptive recruitment and war practices of the U.S. military. (Courtesy of Patricia Lecusay)
"Give the Dispatch some credit"
How much? They sat on the truth for a year.
Hopefully we can get this story some needed exposure.
This POS will do anything for 15 minutes of publicity and a steak dinner with a congressional candidate. I hope he meets with an accident.
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