Marine Vet from IRAQ : "...we're basically committing genocide..."

[file83]

From this DemocracyNow interview:

"So, I have three dying men with bullet holes from our weapons, and this gentleman asking me why I killed his brother. That's a tough pill to swallow, and that continuously happened the entire time that we were in Iraq. After we left the city of Anu Mannia, it just became utter chaos.

  It sickened me so that I had actually brought it up to my lieutenant, and I told him, I said, you know, sir, we're not going to have to worry about the Iraq -- you know, we're basically committing genocide over here, mass extermination of thousands of Iraqis, and with the depleted uranium that we're leaving around on the battlefield, we're setting up genocide for future generations within Iraq. He didn't like that. He immediately went to my commanding officer, Captain Schmitt and proceeded to tell him about how I felt about Iraq. Word spread pretty quickly and I knew that my Marine Corps career was over. I knew that the statement that I had just made was going to bring about the blackball pretty quickly. So, I was scurried out of Iraq quickly, and ordered to report back stateside to receive psychological therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder and major depression."

At least we now know how the Pentagon handles soldiers that realize the truth about this war: They get them out of Iraq and order them in for "psychological therapy".

I wonder what the Pentagon would like to do to us DU'rs...

[1620rock]

1. Use us for target practice.

[melody]

2. Wonderful movie about this very thing called the Ninth Configuration

The sane man is called the crazy one.

Great story. Thanks for posting it.

[BlueIris]

3. Gotta love those Marines. Can we stop this madness now?

Jesus.

[DELUSIONAL]

4. It takes guts to tell the truth -- and genocide is what is happening

in Iraq.

This Marine was raised too well -- so he tells the truth and the military is trying to label him as crazy.

Sometimes I wonder just who is running the nut house.

[Karenina]

5. Kick for Jimmy

:kick:

[druidity33]

6. Love for Amy Goodman...

Democracy Now! is one of my absolute favorite shows... have heard her speak a couple of times and she rocks. On this point though i think she had problems subsequently verifying some of his claims, even had him back on to debate the issues with his accuser and i don't recall feeling like he was really being truthful. This was last year sometime, i think. Everyone should note this interview is from 2004... so, though underreported, not new news. I'd be curious as to what he's up to now. How did you run across this piece?

[file83]

8. ditto - Amy Goodman of DN is one of the best. n/t

[mzmolly]

7. "what led up to my disgust with the war was the civilian casualties"

STAFF SERGEANT JIMMY MASSEY: Really, what led up to my disgust with the war was the civilian casualties that we were inflicting. We were given intelligence reports -- the civilian casualties really started taking place after we left the town of Anu Mannia on the drive north towards Baghdad. We were getting intelligence reports from higher command saying that the Fedayeen and Republican Guards were trading in their uniforms for civilian clothes, and they were mounting terrorist attacks against U.S. soldiers and marines using guerrilla-style tactics, suicide bombings. They were using civilians as human shields. They were loading down stolen ambulances and police cars with explosives. So, as we progressed on towards Baghdad, our fears and anxieties were heightened, and also due to the lack of sleep, some of us had less than 48 hours of sleep getting into Baghdad. So, whenever we were placed into these situations where civilian vehicles were coming up to our checkpoints, and not heeding our warning shot, we were lighting them up. What I mean by lighting them up, we were discharging our weapons, 50 cals and M-16's into the civilian vehicles. When we would do this, we were expecting secondary explosions, ammunition to be cooking off or actually have the occupants in the vehicle fire back at us. However, none of this ever happened. When we would go to search the vehicles, we would find no weapons, and nothing to link these individuals with -- these individuals with terrorists acts. And this happened continuously through the fall of Baghdad. I would say my platoon alone killed 30-plus innocent civilians.

In my conversation with Right Wing Nut Bags (which I boiled down here) http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=3798984&mesg_id=3798984 one will note that everyone we kill in Iraq is a member of Al Qaida - a terrorist. Jimmy M clearly must be wrong about this! :sarcasm:

[file83]

9. An Army of One: Donald Rumsfeld. All others do NOT count.

[Roland99]

10. And this speech from David Airhart (about to be booted from Kent St.)

http://traprockpeace.org/kent_state_students/


You'll have to put up with his numerous "uh...umm...uh...yeah" stammerings but he gets the point across.

[applegrove]

11. Rummy & the Neocons seem to feel a long drawn out wars is the

best thing for America. Perhaps it breaks down people's intolerance of war. Perhaps it stops inflation within the continental USA.

Don't know - but whenever they have a chance - they pull back or do something incompetent.

They do incompetent so often - it ain't stupidity - it is policy & practice.

Disgusting.

[manic expression]

12. Wow

I'm at a loss for words.

Thanks for posting this.

[glitch]

13. Wouldn't it be great if everyone over there starting talking like this and

got sent HOME? If they can handle Iraq they can handle the psd therapy (but be sure and palm the drugs!).

[BlueEyedSon]

14. Tell Katherne Harris. nt

[Seabiscuit]

15. They'd send us quail hunting with Dick Cheney. n/t

[NNN0LHI]

16. I've been saying we've been committing genocide in Iraq for years now

But no one would listen...

Don

[rman]

17. We do that all the time, we just don't call it that when *we* do it

Wars of agression, resource wars, genocide, colonialism - it's the MO of the wealthy nations.

Good that at least a few do call it for what it is.

[Th1onein]

18. "Therapy" = thought police

nt