November 07, 2005
~ Lies Lies Lies, Yeah! ~

Definitely not filing it under "good news". More like, isn't it your job to find out he's lying before you publish his stories?

For more than a year, former Marine Staff Sgt. Jimmy Massey has been telling anybody who will listen about the atrocities that he and other Marines committed in Iraq.

In scores of newspaper, magazine and broadcast stories, at a Canadian immigration hearing and in numerous speeches across the country, Massey has told how he and other Marines recklessly, sometimes intentionally, killed dozens of innocent Iraqi civilians.
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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.

He wasn't.

I don't expect it to make a bit of difference to the people already convinced our troops sell children and eat pets, but it's nice to have a little ammunition when rational people are confronted with such lunacy.

Posted by scott at November 07, 2005 10:36 AM

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