News: Peace
American Marine "Ashamed" Of Iraq Experience Current rating: 1
by IslamOnline
(No verified email address) 17 Apr 2004
Modified: 07:30:10 PM
""Throw candies in the school courtyard, and open fire on children
rushing to snatch them. Crush them," Sgt Massey recalled officers as
saying during drills. The sergent has been involved in the killing of
at least 30 Iraqi civilians before the current unrest began.
"I think I had enough. It's time for us to go home," Private First
Class Joe Cruz,18 , from the Second Brigade of the Army's Third
Infantry Division, had said.
CAIRO, April 17 (IslamOnline.net) – Ever since his return home last
April, U.S. Marine Jimmy Massey has had a hard time sleeping, feeling
"ashamed" of involvement in killing no less than 30 Iraqi civilians
during his one-month mission.
"We had no qualms about opening fire on any car crossing a checkpoint
without hauling up," he told the French newspaper L’Humanite on
Tuesday, April13 .
"We, soldiers in the battalion, shot dead 30 people in one month,
during our mission to seal off cities and lay a tight siege on
villages," Massey recalled.
Several of such harrowing accounts still jut clear into his memory.
Massey quit on April18 , 2003 – nine days after U.S.-led occupation
forces rolled into Baghdad, after a12 -year service in the army.
He could not forget impassioned pleas of one Baghdad resident after he
and his colleagues manning a checkpoint killed three other passengers
in his car.
"Why did you kill my brother. We did not do any thing," Massy
remembered the man screaming despite his injuries.
Much painful to his conscience, the scene stood a repeat twice the
same day.
"We fired at two other cars. Three civilians were killed," Massey
regretted.
U.S. and British officials argue that former Iraqi soldiers dress in
civvies and that ambulance vehicles are loaded with explosives, he
said.
However, for Massey, there is more than a thin line between allegedly
precautionary measure and a "war of genocide" and a virtual stench of
civilian deaths.
"This is not the way for liberating Iraqis and achieving democracy,"
he called telling his commander who declined to respond.
Food & Fire
Massey cited instructions of commanders disregarding lives of Iraq
civilians as one of many reasons still driving him nuts.
"Throw candies in the school courtyard, and open fire on children
rushing to snatch them. Crush them," he recalled officers as saying
during drills.
The U.S. Marine said the message came always mixed to the ordinary
Iraqis.
He asserted that they would distributed foodstuffs and do other
humanitarian activities for only three hours while spend the rest of
the day fighting the Iraqis.
"Once, we swept into one town and set up a checkpoint there. Next day
we began our humanitarian mission."
"Of course, they refused to take food from the same hands that had
earlier killed their mothers or brothers."
With self-tormenting memories, Massey turned down an offer to do paper
works in the Marine Corps and insisted to resign though this lost him
his pension.
Massey can not even find solace in current news spreading out in media
outlets on Iraq.
In Fallujah, a western Baghdad city besieged sine April5 , U.S.
bombardment claimed the lives of at least 600 people and left more
than1 , 500others injured.
A doctor in the town told IslamOnline.net on Monday, April12 , that
most of those killed in the U.S. military offensive were women and
children.
British forces, joining the invasion of the oil-rich country under the
orders of U.S.-staunch ally Prime Minister Tony Blair, have their own
harrowing record.
On May30 , a British soldier was questioned over sickening "torture"
photos of Iraqi prisoners, including an Iraqi PoW dangling from a
fork-lift truck, and others depict soldiers committing sex acts near
captured Iraqis.
Suicide Option
With a mixed feeling of guilt and desperation, several American
soldiers chose taking their own lives.
Some 23 soldiers committed suicide in2003 , according to a spokesman
for the U.S. Marines in Iraq.
A large number of soldiers want to escape from Iraq, and several of
those allowed to leave the war-scarred country never came back, said
Luke Hiken, a lawyer in San Francisco and an expert on military
affairs.
The soldiers are coming under pressures of non-stop resistance
operations, growing anti-American sentiments and feelings of
homesickness.
"I think I had enough. It's time for us to go home," Private First
Class Joe Cruz,18 , from the Second Brigade of the Army's Third
Infantry Division, had said.
The U.S. military has lost at least 92 troops in resistance fighters
since March 31 - more than the total killed in the three-week
invasion.
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld admitted that the recent U.S.
military death toll was beyond expectations.
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18 Apr 2004 10:47:53 AM |
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Zak <Zak@home.com> wrote:
News: Peace
American Marine "Ashamed" Of Iraq Experience Current rating: 1
by IslamOnline
(No verified email address) 17 Apr 2004
Modified: 07:30:10 PM
""Throw candies in the school courtyard, and open fire on children
rushing to snatch them. Crush them," Sgt Massey recalled officers as
saying during drills. The sergent has been involved in the killing of
at least 30 Iraqi civilians before the current unrest began.
Hey Tony.. uh.. DaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarkWANKER: STFU, EH? SHUT YOUR
*****!
WALLY
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| User: "Zak" |
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18 Apr 2004 11:39:00 AM |
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On Sun, 18 Apr 2004 15:47:53 GMT, (Grantland)
wrote:
Zak <Zak@home.com> wrote:
News: Peace
American Marine "Ashamed" Of Iraq Experience Current rating: 1
by IslamOnline
(No verified email address) 17 Apr 2004
Modified: 07:30:10 PM
""Throw candies in the school courtyard, and open fire on children
rushing to snatch them. Crush them," Sgt Massey recalled officers as
saying during drills. The sergent has been involved in the killing of
at least 30 Iraqi civilians before the current unrest began.
Hey Tony.. uh.. DaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarkWANKER: STFU, EH? SHUT YOUR
*****!
Hey GrantShit....make me you lowlife piece of *****.
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18 Apr 2004 05:36:35 PM |
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Zak a écrit:
On Sun, 18 Apr 2004 15:47:53 GMT, (Grantland)
wrote:
Zak <Zak@home.com> wrote:
News: Peace
American Marine "Ashamed" Of Iraq Experience Current rating: 1
by IslamOnline
(No verified email address) 17 Apr 2004
Modified: 07:30:10 PM
""Throw candies in the school courtyard, and open fire on children
rushing to snatch them. Crush them," Sgt Massey recalled officers as
saying during drills. The sergent has been involved in the killing of
at least 30 Iraqi civilians before the current unrest began.
Hey Tony.. uh.. DaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarkWANKER: STFU, EH? SHUT YOUR
*****!
Hey GrantShit....make me you lowlife piece of *****.
Hey zaakass, you stink.
J.
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| User: "Cuan" |
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21 Apr 2004 06:52:09 AM |
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"Jean Guernon" <jguernon@globetrotter.net> wrote in message
news:TpDgc.13360976$Id.2220899@news.easynews.com...
Zak a écrit:
On Sun, 18 Apr 2004 15:47:53 GMT, (Grantland)
wrote:
Hey Tony.. uh.. DaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarkWANKER: STFU, EH? SHUT YOUR
*****!
Hey GrantShit....make me you lowlife piece of *****.
Hey zaakass, you stink.
J.
what intelligent conversation from such intelligent individuals.
reminds me of a tennis match.
- cuan
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| User: "Zak" |
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19 Apr 2004 06:42:44 AM |
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On Sun, 18 Apr 2004 22:36:35 GMT, Jean Guernon
<jguernon@globetrotter.net> wrote:
Zak a écrit:
On Sun, 18 Apr 2004 15:47:53 GMT, (Grantland)
wrote:
Zak <Zak@home.com> wrote:
News: Peace
American Marine "Ashamed" Of Iraq Experience Current rating: 1
by IslamOnline
(No verified email address) 17 Apr 2004
Modified: 07:30:10 PM
""Throw candies in the school courtyard, and open fire on children
rushing to snatch them. Crush them," Sgt Massey recalled officers as
saying during drills. The sergent has been involved in the killing of
at least 30 Iraqi civilians before the current unrest began.
Hey Tony.. uh.. DaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarkWANKER: STFU, EH? SHUT YOUR
*****!
Hey GrantShit....make me you lowlife piece of *****.
Hey zaakass, you stink.
Hey Guernon, you are an IDIOT
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| User: "TonyZ2001" |
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19 Apr 2004 03:40:09 AM |
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Pure BS.
Tony
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