"That's me, a marine, a murderer of civilians"

March 13, 2005 by element115
The following interview of U.S. Marine Jimmy Massey by Patrizio Lombroso of Il Manifesto appeared the day before Giuliana Sgrena was released and shot.

"I've seen the horror that we were causing every day in Iraq. I have been part of it. We are all just murderers."

"We kill innocent Iraqi civilians all the time. That?s the way it is. I believe they need to withdraw all foreign military troops in Iraq right away. And I say this about other soldiers: to avoid punishment or reprisals by the military, they don't want to talk and admit that killing terrorists is not our mission. It's to kill innocent civilians."
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Wolfgang P. May said...

If I had to choose between fighting in Iraq, or returning to Vietnam in the middle of that war, I would certainly choose Vietnam. As advisory team leader to an ARVN battalion, I was stationed in Trung Lap, at the edge of the so-called "Iron Triangle". During my first month, we were mortared every night, though only with 60mm mortars. One night, an American counter-mortar radar team provided me with the precise position of the enemy mortars, and we fired back with 4.2" heavy mortars. Next morning, the survivors in my target area brought a three year old boy into my base, his stomach covered with a dinner plate, to hold his intestines in place. Although I had him evacuated for medical treatment, I had no doubt that he would die. Such is the harsh reality of war. More at my link at the top of this message, or at http://home.earthlink.net/~wolfgangpmay/

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