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

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.

1 posted on 11/06/2005 5:25:34 AM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity
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Massey, a 12-year veteran who was honorably discharged.

Perhaps he didn't say anything before.

2 posted on 11/06/2005 5:27:46 AM PST by paudio (Four More Years..... Let's Use Them Wisely...)
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"Outside of the Marines, almost no one has seriously questioned whether Massey, a 12-year veteran who was honorably discharged, was telling the truth."

Traitor.

3 posted on 11/06/2005 5:27:50 AM PST by L98Fiero
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity

I say hang the b@$tard...

the MSM will ignore this end of the story... now that they've gotten mileage from this crap...


4 posted on 11/06/2005 5:29:21 AM PST by g'nad
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To: L98Fiero

Paging John Kerry. John Kerry, please call your campaign headquarters ...


5 posted on 11/06/2005 5:29:55 AM PST by KateatRFM
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity

We'll just have to keep an eye on this fella.


6 posted on 11/06/2005 5:30:18 AM PST by battlegearboat
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
According to this he was honorably discharged.
7 posted on 11/06/2005 5:30:50 AM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity

Give the Dispatch some credit. We'll see how widely this gets distributed.


8 posted on 11/06/2005 5:30:53 AM PST by Rippin
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity

Isn't it curious that the reporters embedded with him never spoke up at the time?


9 posted on 11/06/2005 5:31:05 AM PST by nuconvert (No More Axis of Evil by Christmas ! TLR) [there's a lot of bad people in the pistachio business])
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Whoops, I just locked in on the second-to-last paragraph, good catch. Now I am ticked off!!


10 posted on 11/06/2005 5:31:09 AM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity ("Sharpei diem - Seize the wrinkled dog.")
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sounds like this guy is the future for the democrat party


11 posted on 11/06/2005 5:31:40 AM PST by catmanblack. (he is the great I AM-)
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Curious? Yes. Surprizing? No.


12 posted on 11/06/2005 5:31:46 AM PST by L98Fiero
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Yep, I missed that. Thanks.


13 posted on 11/06/2005 5:32:06 AM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity ("Sharpei diem - Seize the wrinkled dog.")
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"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."


France, hmmmmm, seems an appropriate place to release this book.
14 posted on 11/06/2005 5:32:54 AM PST by Just mythoughts
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity

A future John Kerry! Can a run for the Senate be far ahead of this valorous principled outspoken war hero?


15 posted on 11/06/2005 5:33:29 AM PST by silverleaf (Fasten your seat belts- it's going to be a BUMPY ride.)
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I remember that jerk. His stories were hosted all over foreign cultural forums and anything leaning against the war. There's a world of anti-Americanism that believe this is the truth of how we fight and why we're powerful. The SOB should be extradited and shot.
16 posted on 11/06/2005 5:34:36 AM PST by elfman2
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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)

17 posted on 11/06/2005 5:35:06 AM PST by kcvl
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"Give the Dispatch some credit"

How much? They sat on the truth for a year.


18 posted on 11/06/2005 5:35:13 AM PST by nuconvert (No More Axis of Evil by Christmas ! TLR) [there's a lot of bad people in the pistachio business])
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No kidding. Kudos to the embedded Dispatch and WSJ reporters for telling the truth, and especially to the Dispatch for putting out this story. There are a lot of media who would have just kept quiet and let this scumbag's stories ride.

Hopefully we can get this story some needed exposure.

19 posted on 11/06/2005 5:35:38 AM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity ("Sharpei diem - Seize the wrinkled dog.")
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To: kcvl

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.


20 posted on 11/06/2005 5:37:07 AM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity ("Sharpei diem - Seize the wrinkled dog.")
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