Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2008 7:27 am Post subject: 'I have been a psychopathic murderer' Vets For Peace
The Testimony of a US ex-marine, who went to fight in Iraq
Jimmy Massey: "I have been a psychopathic murderer"
"I was a psychopathic murderer because I was trained to kill. I was not born with that mentality. It was the Marines that trained me to be a gangster in the interest of US corporations, a criminal. They trained me to fulfill, without thinking, the orders of the President of the United States and bring him what he asked for, without any moral consideration. I was a psychopath because we were trained to shoot first and ask later, as an insane person would act, not a professional soldier that is to face another soldier. If we had to kill women and children, we would do it; therefore, we were not soldiers, we were mercenaries".
That was part of the second chapter of the book Jimmy wrote three years ago, with the assistance of journalist Natasha Saulnier, and which was launched at the 2007 Caracas Book Fair. Cowboys of Hell is the most violent testimony that has been written thus far based on the experience of a former member of the Marine Corps, one of the first to arrive in Iraq during the 2003 invasion. A is determined to tell, as many times as necessary, what having been a merciless marine for twelve years meant to him and why the Iraq war changed him.
Jimmy participated as a panelist at the fair's main workshop, which had a controversial title: "The United States, the Possible Revolution" and his testimony possibly had the strongest expected impact on the audience. He has his hair cut in the military style and wears sun glasses; he walks with martial air and he has his arms covered with tattoos. He looks just like what he used to be: a marine. But when he speaks he looks different: he is someone marked by a horrifying experience from which he tries to keep other unwary youths away. As he assures in his book, he has not been the only one to have killed people in Iraq; that was a permanent practice by his fellow men. Four years after having abandoned the war, he still feels he is being chased by his nightmares.
Q: Why did you say that you had met the worse people ever in your life in the US Marines?
A: The United States only has two ways of using the marines: to undertake humanitarian missions and to kill. Over the 12 years I was with them, I never took part in humanitarian missions.
Q: You changed after the war, but could you tell me about your feelings before that?
A: I felt just like the other soldiers who believed what they were told. However, since I began my recruiting work I felt bad about it: as a recruiting officer I had to tell lies all the time.
Q: But, you believed that your country was involved in a fair war against Iraq.
A: Yes, Intelligence reports we received read that Saddan had weapons of mass destruction. Later, we found out that everything was a lie.
Q: When did you find out you had been deceived?
A: Once in Iraq, where I arrived in March 2003. My platoon was ordered to go to the places formerly controlled by the Iraqi army and we saw thousands of thousands of ammunitions in boxes bearing the US label; they were there since the US had supported the Saddan government against Iran. I saw some boxes with the US flag on them and I even saw American tanks. My marines—I was a sergeant with E-6 category, a staff sergeant, which is a higher rank and I had 45 marines under my command— would ask me why there were US ammunitions in Iraq. They couldn't understand it. CIA reports said that the Salmon Pac was a terrorist camp and that we would find chemical and biological weapons there, but we found nothing. In that moment I began to think that our real mission in Iraq was focused on oil. _________________
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Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2008 2:43 am Post subject: Why are we killing so many civilians?
Shocking confessions of a US Marine?
"Why are we killing so many civilians?"
Cowboys From Hell is a new book by Jimmy Massey
This from Venezuelan TV
New book tells it how it is
http://www.ivaw.org/about (600 active members that speak worldwide, 2000 members in reserve waiting for the revolution many within the US military, only question is when are we going to take it to the White House, have members within the NSA Maryland)
US Marines officer who questioned violations of the Geneva conventions only to narrowly escape jail. Now wants to tell the world what he witnessed in Iraq.
No 1 mercenary outfit is Blackwater - compound in North Carolina - private security firms - do combat operations which are outside Geneva conventions and international law. They get about 4 times the pay of army soldiers. Not professional soldiers.
We will stay in iraq until we bleed iraqis of all of their oil and then we will move to iran, syria and whoever else we think has oil or natural resources we can rape. Including Venezuela. This is World War III, there are no rules, the rules went out the window September the 11th. My 12 year of briefings in US Marine corps tells me the US has a quest for global domination... marines are gangsters for capitalism.
Joined: 25 Jul 2005 Posts: 18335 Location: St. Pauls, Bristol, England
Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 2:02 am Post subject:
This Venezuelan TV interview with ex US Marine Corps Staff Sargeant Jimmy Massey is almost crazy sounding - but maybe not so crazy?
Thought provoking, thoughtcrime provoking?
www.ivaw.org
Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 10:55 am Post subject: Re: Why are we killing so many civilians?
TonyGosling wrote:
Shocking confessions of a US Marine?
"Why are we killing so many civilians?"
Cowboys From Hell is a new book by Jimmy Massey
This from Venezuelan TV
New book tells it how it is
http://www.ivaw.org/about (600 active members that speak worldwide, 2000 members in reserve waiting for the revolution many within the US military, only question is when are we going to take it to the White House, have members within the NSA Maryland)
US Marines officer who questioned violations of the Geneva conventions only to narrowly escape jail. Now wants to tell the world what he witnessed in Iraq.
No 1 mercenary outfit is Blackwater - compound in North Carolina - private security firms - do combat operations which are outside Geneva conventions and international law. They get about 4 times the pay of army soldiers. Not professional soldiers.
We will stay in iraq until we bleed iraqis of all of their oil and then we will move to iran, syria and whoever else we think has oil or natural resources we can rape. Including Venezuela. This is World War III, there are no rules, the rules went out the window September the 11th. My 12 year of briefings in US Marine corps tells me the US has a quest for global domination... marines are gangsters for capitalism.
The media within the US has blinded the American people. blames Bill O'Reily Fox News, Mr O'Reilly needs to grow a Hitler moustache. Supposedly Irish but I think he's more fascist. Mr O'Reilly has betrayed his people of Ireland.
All videos have gone please wake up to this!!! _________________ 'Come and see the violence inherent in the system.
Help, help, I'm being repressed!'
“The more you tighten your grip, the more Star Systems will slip through your fingers.”
Joined: 25 Jul 2005 Posts: 18335 Location: St. Pauls, Bristol, England
Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2010 7:12 pm Post subject:
"We have more in common wth the Iraqi people than we do with the billionaires that sent us to war."
Our real enemy is not the ones living in a distant land whose names or policies we don't understand; The real enemy is a system that wages war when it's profitable, the CEOs who lay us off our jobs when it's profitable, the Insurance Companies who deny us Health care when it's profitable, the Banks who take away our homes when it's profitable. Our enemies are not several hundred thousands away. They are right here in front of us
- Mike Prysner
"We have more in common wth the Iraqi people than we do with the billionaires that sent us to war." True. Because we are the enemy in the elite's eyes. An enemy they want to crush too. Our crime is that we exist. and that is bad news for them. As long as we exist. There is less for them. A simplistic view. But no less true. _________________ "It's called the American Dream, because you have to be alseep to believe it"
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