Atrocities in Iraq: 'I killed innocent people for our government'

For nearly 12 years, Staff Sgt. Jimmy Massey was a hard-core, some say gung-ho, Marine. For three years he trained fellow Marines in one of the most grueling indoctrination rituals in military life - Marine boot camp.

The Iraq war changed Massey. The brutality, the sheer carnage of the U.S. invasion, touched his conscience and transformed him forever. He was honorably discharged with full severance last Dec. 31 and is now back in his hometown, Waynsville, N.C.

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Q: Your feelings changed during the invasion. What was your state of mind before the invasion?

A: I was like every other troop. My president told me they got weapons of mass destruction, that Saddam threatened the free world, that he had all this might and could reach us anywhere. I just bought into the whole thing.

Q: What changed you?

A: The civilian casualties taking place. That was what made the difference. That was when I changed.

Q: Did the revelations that the government fabricated the evidence for war affect the troops?

A: Yes. I killed innocent people for our government. For what? What did I do? Where is the good coming out of it? I feel like I've had a hand in some sort of evil lie at the hands of our government. I just feel embarrassed, ashamed about it."

http://www.sacbee.com/content/opinion/story/9316830p-10241546c.html

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It was just a personal conviction with me. I've had an impeccable career. I chose to get out. And you know who I blame? I blame the president of the U.S. It's not the grunt. I blame the president because he said they had weapons of mass destruction. It was a lie.

Every day the anti-war position is more and more vindicated. I wonder when the mainstream media will admit that?

The killing of innocents was a regular occurence. Standard Practice. I can't even start to imagine what Iraq must be like. Just like the "killing fields."

Even hardcore military types are waking up to the evils of Bu$hco.

thanks for posting this

was nothing more than a mouthpiece for the Administration
than things may have been different. I believe that if the public had been shown the 'truth' of this war re: civilian casualities etc, instead of video game images and Pentagon propaganda we would have handed over control of Iraq to the U.N. long ago.

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