Posted on 11/06/2005 11:13:19 AM PST by West Coast Conservative
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.
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, of Waynesville, N.C., was with the 3rd Battalion, 7th Marines based out of Twentynine Palms, Calif. The unit went to the Middle East in January 2003 and participated in the U.S. invasion of Iraq.
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Billy Jack?
Or a future John Kerry.
John Kerry Jr.?
Why? I don't get it. Why?
Yep, a modern day John Kerry.
When in doubt, follow the money....maybe he saw $$$$$ by being against the war...after all, he became a tiny, teeny celebrity.
Thank you, Jimmy.
We will never know the extreme amount of damage you have caused this country as a whole.
May you pay for these lies the rest of your life.
That pic puts my gaydar on red alert.
"May you pay for these lies the rest of your life."
His punishment will be to run for president and almost win. Oh the humanity!
I think the guy probably has some serious psychological issues and craves attention. The fact that the left put him front and center as an example of what they think is wrong with us being in Iraq speaks volumes about them. They don't care about the truth and will use any convenient vehicle; this guy, Cindy Sheehan, Dan Rather, Michael Moore, Joe Wilson etc. ad infinitum to confuse and demoralize the public.
Try one for your barfdar.
Kerry Clone?
If he has admitted to war crimes why is he not in the brig awaiting trial?
You are forgetting the mindset here:
1) "It's the seriousness of the charges that matter."
2) "Fake but accurate."
Doublethink is doubleplusgood
Let me see, this is a surpise to whom?
Every veteran who is a member or lurker of Free Republic knew it was a lie the moment that the allegations left his lips.
But the Bush-bashing moonbats on the left who want to believe thei crap, lapped it up. And al-Qaeda thanks him for adding more people to the anti-war crowd in hopes they may actually achieve their Vietnam.
They haven't.
YOUR BASIC DAY
One Marine's View
from Iraq
http://shepherdaway.blogspot.com/
Posted this because it is an entirely different view than the liar's view
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