recruiting duty was giving him high blood pressure
Yeah, it's a real bummer to work 9-to-5 and go home every night while your fellow Marines are living in the field and getting 4 hours of sleep a night. Cry me a river, Jimbo.
If recruiting duty was kicking his ass, no wonder he played the depression/PTSD card to get out of Iraq.
Jimmy was eventually medi-vaced out of Iraq and diagnosed with depression and post-traumatic stress disorder. Labeled as a conscientious objector by his commanders, Massey sought legal counsel and won his honorable discharge in December 2003.
Translation: Jimmy was a problem child from day one and the Marines got sick of dealing with him. A commander would rather do his job fighting a war than have to constantly babysit a chronic screwup who can't use the toilet without supervision.
America is becoming an increasingly militaristic society, where poor people have been encouraged to sign up as the front line. The bottom line is, for the Halliburtons and Enrons war is good, but for the poor and for all of the soldiers coming home, especially the ones coming home wounded, there’s not much of a future.
Yeah, that GI Bill for college and experience beyond McDonald's provides no future at all. A guy would have been better off working at a car wash after high school, eh, Jimmy? The military, like anything else in life, is what you make of it. You can continue a military career, step over to higher education, or you can be a disgruntled screwup who filches off all his problems on somebody else--like you, Jimmy.
My mother is a strict Southern Baptist woman and she instilled certain values into me. She taught me the difference between right and wrong and told me that I should always follow my gut and that I should stand up for what I believe in.
That's why I'm lying about killing kids and burning villages, and my stories of committing atrocities don't jibe with my supposed good values.
I saw charred bodies in vehicles that were clearly not military vehicles. I saw people dead on the side of the road in civilian clothes. As a matter of fact, I only remember seeing a couple of bodies in military uniform the whole time.
That's because terrorists don't wear uniforms, you freak.
The real war did not begin until they saw us murdering innocent civilians. I mean, they were witnessing their loved ones being murdered by US Marines. It’s kind of hard to tell someone that they are being liberated when they just saw their child shot or lost their husband or grandmother.
So the dancing in the streets that even CNN and MSNBC was showing was just a ruse, right Jimmy?
And here is a pic from April 2003. More people being raped and shot by the Marines:
Marines from Task Force Tarawa hand out needed food and supplies to Iraqi citizens near An Nasariyah, Iraq while in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Official U.S. Marine Corps photograph taken Lance Cpl. B.J. Nealy
DR: Was there any humanity in the military’s dealing with the Iraqi people?
Jimmy: That was not our purpose. Let me give you an example. We actually left all of the humanitarian MRE’s [Meals Ready to Eat] in Kuwait. We were supposed to give these out for relief, and we left them in Kuwait.
So what is this, Jimmy, boxes of sawdust? It makes a hell of a lot of sense to ship MREs 12,000 miles so that they can sit in warehouses in Kuwait. Let me guess, the water bottles are actually battery acid.
Children would follow U.S. soldiers everywhere, Ken Cabral said, asking for MREs (meals ready to eat) or pens and paper. "Anything we had, they'd want," he said. When Mr. Cabral began to pose for this picture, more and more children kept crowding in, he said.
Army Spc. Kirsten Frederickson, 308th Civil Affairs Battalion, surprises an Iraqi girl when she removes her kevlar helmet near the Iraqi town of An Najaf. "Just look at the faces of these little girls. When I take my helmet off and show them I'm a woman, their eyes open wide. I'm showing them there's a chance for something different in their lives. Cultural change is a long process, but it's got to start somewhere," Frederickson said. U.S. Central Command photo by Army Master Sgt. Chris Calkins
As British and American troops roll by, Iraqi children from the port city of Umm Qasr give them a hearty and happy greeting. U.S. Central Command photo by Army Master Sgt. Chris Calkins
Common reaction from people whose family members are constantly being beaten and shot, eh, Jimmy?