Powerful segment on Democracy Now this morning....

[Postman]

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/05/24/148212

Ex-U.S. Marine: I Killed Civilians in Iraq

[maggrwaggr]

1. Jimmy Massey's doing a pretty good job of getting his story out

Unfortunately the major media haven't covered him yet.

We need to send his story to major news organizations.

Every tax-paying, voting American should hear his story.

[maggrwaggr]

2. and for some reasons threads on him here sink like a stone

I don't get it. I tried to kick another one up a week or so ago

[redqueen]

3. You think any major media outlets will cover his story?

Somehow I find it doubtful. But there are positive signs that the media is finding the courage to actually criticize the disastrous garbage which pass as bush's policies, so who knows.

[althecat]

4. He was on national radio here in New Zealand

Leading off the top-rating National Radio 9-to-noon show with Linda Clark.

Seems to me there is something of a movement among the troops going on. I have started a new thread to try and compile a list of whistleblowers like Jimmy Massey here...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x1657510

al

[althecat]

5. Jimmy Massey on Radio New Zealand Audio Link

Jimmy Massey on Radio New Zealand Audio Link

http://xtra.co.nz/broadband/0,,10980-2735306-20,00.html

[Karenina]

6. He's a truthteller.

Ex-Marine Staff Sergeant Jimmy Massey talks about his time in Iraq where he admitted the U.S. treatment of Iraqi civilians is fueling the Iraqi resistance. In a recent interview he said "I felt like we were committing genocide in Iraq."

These Iraqis had a clear shot of the tank before we even got there, but they didn't. I just quickly- put two and two together and said, oh, my God - we just opened up on a group of peaceful demonstrators.

<snip>

But deep down, it was seriously affecting me, because it was so evident. Marines are trained from day one that you go in -- when you go in to boot camp you learn what the Geneva Convention is, what the rules of the Geneva Convention are, what the rules of engagement. However, Iraq violated every rule of engagement that I have ever been taught - violated every rule of the Geneva Convention that I have been taught. If you have young marines coming up you to and asking you, staff sergeant, what's going on? You know, we have got a problem.

Errraaa... HOUSTON? Can you read me?

[JohnOneillsMemory]

7. Kick. I heard it, too. An interesting thing about Massey is he saw his

father shot by police as a kid. He was traveling with him in his truck and police pulled them over. When his father got out of the cab something happened and the cops shot him dead.

Massey has written that having the unharmed brother of a man he had just shot asking him why he had killed his brother brought it back to him.

How ironic and sad.