Messy Massey

Staff sergeant Jimmy Massey (cofounder of Iraq Veterans Against the War) and author of Kill, Kill, Kill , a collection of genocidal atrocities committed by fellow Marine Corp "psychopathic killers" in Iraq. The rightwing are pointing out inconsistencies in Massey's memoirs. Massey joined the Cindy Sheehan bus tour, interviewed by Amy Goodman, speaks on campuses, etc. Some on the right compare Massey to the 1971 anti-war John Kerry. The usual – hero to the left, liar to the right.

Ron Harris writes in the St. Louis Post "News organizations worldwide published or broadcast Massey's claims without any corroboration and in most cases without investigation. Outside of the Marines, almost no one has seriously questioned whether Massey, a 12-year veteran who was honorably discharged, was telling the truth."

Massey defends himself at IVAW stating that Harris is guilty of bad reporting which is what Harris accuses the MSM of when initially reporting Massey's claims. He said/He said?

Information Clearing House (a source I sometimes find questionable) states that in Kill, Kill, Kill Massey claims : "… he and other Marines in his unit killed dozens of unarmed Iraqi civilians because of an exaggerated sense of threat, and that they often experienced sexual-type thrills doing so."

Sexual thrill kill? Why does that sound like b.s. to me? But it sells books and movie rights. Or perhaps thrill killing was an emotion Massey was able to name during the Navy psychiatric exit exam in May 2003, after he was medivaced from Iraq with the diagnosis of major depressive disorder and PTSD.

Massey was in Iraq until May 2003. So that's … 2 months' during the initial invasion? Sounds like somebody didn't want to play soldier anymore. Massey himself says of that time : "The Iraqis let us in the country; we didn't take it." I guess that was before the "exaggerated sense of threat" and sexual thrills set in.

Another MSM story where you, the individual, must decide who/what to believe. But personally, Massey reads like someone who was doing okay with military life until his ass was on the line, and being a good American capitalist he turned cowardice into coin.