thedrifter
11-10-05, 06:36 AM
No Questions Asked
November 9, 2005
Frank LoPinto
Former Marine Staff Sgt Jimmy Massey has been telling everyone who would listen that he and his Marines committed atrocities while in Iraq.
What [the American People] need to know is we killed a lot of innocent people....
[Iraqi civilians] received pamphlets, propaganda we dropped on them. It said, "Just throw up your hands, lay down weapons."That's what they were doing, but we were still lighting them up.
...we lit up a rally after we heard a stray gunshot.
Q: A demonstration? Where?
A: On the outskirts of Baghdad. Near a military compound. There were demonstrators at the end of the street. They were young and they had no weapons. And when we rolled onto the scene, there was already a tank that was parked on the side of the road. If the Iraqis wanted to do something, they could have blown up the tank. But they didn't. They were only holding a demonstration. Down at the end of the road, we saw some RPGs (rocket-propelled grenades) lined up against the wall. That put us at ease because we thought: "Wow, if they were going to blow us up, they would have done it."
Q: Were the protest signs in English or Arabic?
A: Both.
Q: Who gave the order to wipe the demonstrators out?
A: Higher command. We were told to be on the lookout for the civilians because a lot of the Fedayeen and the Republican Guards had tossed away uniforms and put on civilian clothes and were mounting terrorist attacks on American soldiers. The intelligence reports that were given to us were basically known by every member of the chain of command. The rank structure that was implemented in Iraq by the chain of command was evident to every Marine in Iraq. The order to shoot the demonstrators, I believe, came from senior government officials, including intelligence communities within the military and the U.S. government.
Q: What kind of firepower was employed?
A: M-16s, 50-cal. machine guns.
Q: You fired into six or ten kids? Were they all taken out?
A: Oh, yeah. Well, I had a "mercy" on one guy. When we rolled
up, he was hiding behind a concrete pillar. I saw him and raised my weapon up, and he put up his hands. He ran off. I told everybody, "Don't shoot." Half of his foot was trailing behind him. So he was running with half of his foot cut off.
Q: After you lit up the demonstration, how long before the next incident?
A: Probably about one or two hours. This is another thing, too. I am so glad I am talking with you, because I suppressed all of this.
He told his story to the Socialists who dutifully repeated it.
Rolling Stone picked up the story and repeated it
There's Jimmy Massey, a Marine vet who speaks with biting honesty of his battalion killing civilians at checkpoints on the road to Baghdad, and the day a medic refused to provide insulin for a five-year-old Iraqi girl going into diabetic shock.
Biting honesty. Remember they said that.
And of course publications like Islam Online and al Jazeera spread the word.
The problem with all of this is that former Marine Staff Sgt Jimmy Massey has been lying.
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 Post-Dispatch and reporters from The Associated Press and The Wall Street Journal.
So part of what brought down this celebrity of the Left were the reporters and photographers who were actually embedded with his unit. One of which was an AP reporter. The very same AP who filed a report about him and his claims as if they didn't know they were untrue.
And I can find not a single AP story available on the web that reports his story false.
Does that make them complicit in his lies?
Does that make the Associated Press complicit in propogating anti-American propaganda?
Does that make the AP complicit with the terrorists?
I report, you decide.
In addition to the AP, look at how many are so willing, eager even, to jump on a story that accuses American Soldiers of atrocities without even a cursory investigation into the teller's background.
It reminds me of the Winter Soldier report and the self-promoting John Kerry. Be anti-American, and you become a star.
No questions asked.
Ellie
November 9, 2005
Frank LoPinto
Former Marine Staff Sgt Jimmy Massey has been telling everyone who would listen that he and his Marines committed atrocities while in Iraq.
What [the American People] need to know is we killed a lot of innocent people....
[Iraqi civilians] received pamphlets, propaganda we dropped on them. It said, "Just throw up your hands, lay down weapons."That's what they were doing, but we were still lighting them up.
...we lit up a rally after we heard a stray gunshot.
Q: A demonstration? Where?
A: On the outskirts of Baghdad. Near a military compound. There were demonstrators at the end of the street. They were young and they had no weapons. And when we rolled onto the scene, there was already a tank that was parked on the side of the road. If the Iraqis wanted to do something, they could have blown up the tank. But they didn't. They were only holding a demonstration. Down at the end of the road, we saw some RPGs (rocket-propelled grenades) lined up against the wall. That put us at ease because we thought: "Wow, if they were going to blow us up, they would have done it."
Q: Were the protest signs in English or Arabic?
A: Both.
Q: Who gave the order to wipe the demonstrators out?
A: Higher command. We were told to be on the lookout for the civilians because a lot of the Fedayeen and the Republican Guards had tossed away uniforms and put on civilian clothes and were mounting terrorist attacks on American soldiers. The intelligence reports that were given to us were basically known by every member of the chain of command. The rank structure that was implemented in Iraq by the chain of command was evident to every Marine in Iraq. The order to shoot the demonstrators, I believe, came from senior government officials, including intelligence communities within the military and the U.S. government.
Q: What kind of firepower was employed?
A: M-16s, 50-cal. machine guns.
Q: You fired into six or ten kids? Were they all taken out?
A: Oh, yeah. Well, I had a "mercy" on one guy. When we rolled
up, he was hiding behind a concrete pillar. I saw him and raised my weapon up, and he put up his hands. He ran off. I told everybody, "Don't shoot." Half of his foot was trailing behind him. So he was running with half of his foot cut off.
Q: After you lit up the demonstration, how long before the next incident?
A: Probably about one or two hours. This is another thing, too. I am so glad I am talking with you, because I suppressed all of this.
He told his story to the Socialists who dutifully repeated it.
Rolling Stone picked up the story and repeated it
There's Jimmy Massey, a Marine vet who speaks with biting honesty of his battalion killing civilians at checkpoints on the road to Baghdad, and the day a medic refused to provide insulin for a five-year-old Iraqi girl going into diabetic shock.
Biting honesty. Remember they said that.
And of course publications like Islam Online and al Jazeera spread the word.
The problem with all of this is that former Marine Staff Sgt Jimmy Massey has been lying.
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 Post-Dispatch and reporters from The Associated Press and The Wall Street Journal.
So part of what brought down this celebrity of the Left were the reporters and photographers who were actually embedded with his unit. One of which was an AP reporter. The very same AP who filed a report about him and his claims as if they didn't know they were untrue.
And I can find not a single AP story available on the web that reports his story false.
Does that make them complicit in his lies?
Does that make the Associated Press complicit in propogating anti-American propaganda?
Does that make the AP complicit with the terrorists?
I report, you decide.
In addition to the AP, look at how many are so willing, eager even, to jump on a story that accuses American Soldiers of atrocities without even a cursory investigation into the teller's background.
It reminds me of the Winter Soldier report and the self-promoting John Kerry. Be anti-American, and you become a star.
No questions asked.
Ellie