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Jimmy Massay's Kill ! Kill ! Kill !
Overview:
- Written by an ex-marine, Jimmy Massey, who tells his way trough the corps.
- He was trained as a machine gunner in the mechanized infantry. After that, he has been a drill sergeant, before asking to be moved to the recruitment office for personal reasons. Then, because of his assignment, he became depressive. And was given a second chance by being sent to Iraq.
- In 2003, he was honorably returned to civil life and has been diagnosed with a Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). He’s now part of the group: “Iraq veterans against the war”. And go through American high schools to tell his story.
- Not yet published in the US (possible censure, like Fahrenheit – the author had many proposal, which were canceled at the last moment because the book wasn’t enough politically correct or because the big publishers didn’t get the legal clearance).
- The book is divided in three parts, the training, the recruitment and the war Iraq.
Training:
During his training, Massey underwent moral humiliations, hazing, or all the things that can be commonly seen in films like Full Metal Jacket or Jarhead. But he also describes his sexual deviances which can be one of the consequences of these frustrations. He says: because he can die tomorrow, everything is allowed to a marine. Which means money and sex... During his formation in Okinawa, he almost had paid ten prostitutes a week and had forgotten any kind of Romanism. They also play perverse game (smile; etc).
- The worse part is the way they are taught to kill.
In his book: Men against Fire: The problem of battle command in future war. The military historian in chief Marshall said in 1947 that only 15% of the men sent on the frontline opened fire.
“The fear of killing rather than the fear of being killed was often the cause of individual failure in combat.”
“So we have to free the spirit of the shooter from the nature of his target.”
About the traumatisms related to combat, War Psychiatry, the medical book of the army says that “Most mammals will refuse to kill one of them”. It insists one the fact that the “pseudo speciation” (the ability of a human to consider other humans as different), can neutralize the inhibitions supposed to prevent him from killing someone.
So it was important to develop the reflex of opening fire. By insisting on the psychological conditioning which mainly consists in dehumanizing the enemy. To do that, the army had to use different means such as making their soldiers insensitive, encouraging aggressiveness or describing the act of killing with delight and delectation. But they also had to increase the realism of the training: They shoot mobile targets which look like human. The army’s efforts were successful as 90% of the soldiers used their weapons more instinctively. But the consequences of that success were a lot of soldiers who had to live with the felling of having done something that is an infringement to goodness, and traumatized to life. That’s the Post Traumatic Stress Disorder from which Massey suffers. According to the New England Journal of Medicine 16% of the veterans of the war in Iraq are concerned by that trouble.
Rachel Mac Nair, a specialist in the psychological effects of violence, worked on the data from the National Vietnam Veterans Readjustment Study, a program financed by the congress. She noticed that the percentage of PTSD was higher with the veterans who have killed in combat.
“Those data shows clearly that, for humans, killing is against-nature. Killing another human being will have traumatizing consequences, except for a minority of already psychotic subjects.”
Jimmy’s description of the Marines attests of the success of American’s strategist. Jimmy’s boys get high when blood split all over, and pressing the trigger almost give them some kind of sexual orgasm. But there’s also some sort of “liturgical” dimension: By killing his first prey, a Marines enters in a particular and very closed brotherhood: they are blooded. Added with the fact that they consider their enemies as vermin, killing became some kind of sport and the battlefield, a place where all taboos are broken and where murder madness is encourage.
Recruitment office:
2sd: Timmy. « Mon boulot, c’est de mettre de la vaseline. »
Un jour, en 2000, j'étais avec mon adjudant dans la cafétéria d'une petite université locale. L'adjudant Dalhouse s'est précipité vers moi en disant : « Hé ! Sergent-chef, je voudrais vous présenter Timmy. » J'ai levé la tête vers Timmy pour découvrir... un débile mental ! Quatre-vingt-quinze kilos de muscles, des traits et une élocution d’attarder. Perturbé, j'ai regardé mon nouveau boss et je lui ai demandé : « Vous vous foutez de moi ? » Il a répondu avec fermeté : « Non, sergent-chef, vous allez avoir un entretien avec ce type. Il pense sérieusement à s'engager chez les Marines. »
[...] Timmy était petit et massif, il portait un jean, des bottines de travail et un T-shirt aux couleurs de l'équipe de foot du lycée Andrews High School. Il me rappelait le personnage de Lenny dans « Des souris et des hommes » de Steinbeck. Il voulait sérieusement s'engager chez les Marines, c'était manifeste. [...] « Maintenant, parlons de ton handicap. Je sais que ça a été plus difficile pour toi que pour la moyenne des gens, et tu as déjà fait preuve de beaucoup de confiance en toi en surmontant ton infirmité. » Timmy a baissé les yeux, j'ai vu qu'il était un peu gêné. Puis il a relevé la tête, le regard brillant de larmes, et, la voix tremblante, il m'a répondu : « Vous avez raison, sergent, ça a été vraiment dur pour moi. Une fois, quand j'étais nouveau, les autres m'ont enfermé dans une armoire. Ils m'ont bousculé en m'insultant. J'étais tellement en colère que j'ai défoncé la porte de l'armoire. - Timmy, plus personne ne t'embêtera. Le corps t'aidera à acquérir toute la confiance en toi dont tu auras besoin pour surmonter les obstacles que tu pourras rencontrer au cours de ta vie. » Il m'a adressé un regard plein de gratitude. [...]
Here: He exploits the weaknesses of his target, and play mostly on the fact that he will gain the self-confidence he’s in lack of, and that in the marines, he will be integrated in a group, a family. Massey also advise him to try to hide his nervous problem (doesn’t appear in the extract. In the book, he had several muscular spasms during the meeting). Timmy will be sued later for having hidden his medical problems.
Quand un gosse me disait avoir pris de l'ecstasy, voilà le genre de conversation que nous avions : « Ecoute, mon petit gars, tu es sûr que c'en était, de l'ecstasy ? C'était peut-être du Doliprane. » En disant ça, je hochais la tête. « Ouais, je suis pas sûr, en fait.- Donc tu penses que c'était du Doliprane ? » Toujours en hochant la tête : « Ouais, c'était du Doliprane. » [...]
Another frequently used way by the recruiters is to clean up the files of those who had troubles with the law. Or, again, to lie a bit about the medical antecedents.
As the author said: “My job was to put petroleum around the window so that these young could get trough more easily”
Because the army need 210 000 new bodies a year, the 15 000 recruiters must recruit 3 or 2 young’s per month.
They most likely go around underprivileged areas, where the army is the only option for the teens, or in discs tore where they approach young people and say things such as
“Did you know that the guy you’re listening to was in the marine and that it helped him to become a sing star ...”, or even in basketball fields to talk to players with the same process.
Another good example: He often went down the street in his parade uniform with all his medals hung on it to give an image of his power.
He had a bulldog named “Tankballs”. And had a little show prepared for the young he managed to get in his office. It went so: He asked the guy to take a plastic gun from a drawer, he and had raised Tankballs to jump on hiù at that moment, then ordered the dog to stop just before he bite him. The message was the same: “Can you see how powerful I am? You can do as much. I was a wuss like you before, but now the marines made an Ironman out of me.”
Massay also went almost every day to high schools ,which are oblige to give a list of the pupils with their address and phone numbers when they are asked to (No Child Left Behind Act), and “play Rambo” :
He came in front of all students in uniform with all his medal on it and with his dog “Tankballs” and said fiercely:
“Had some of you seen Rambo? Well Rambo, it’s me!”
Then he continued his speech, keeping on with the idea of impressing the students.
At first, he had great results and rapidly became Staff Sergeant. Then he slowly started to get depressed when he realized what he had to do as a recruiter, and he worked everyday from 7h30 to 21h and had no time to see his family (his wife also get depressed). Quickly, he became unable to fit his demands and was given a second chance by being sent to Iraq.
War in Iraq:
Background:
The first step of the war was the intervention in Afghanistan, the goal of the operation was to secure the future pipe-line, which will lead the oil from the former soviet republic of Kazakhstan towards the Pakistani coasts. Located in the middle of the layout, Afghanistan was a very important stake as the oil reserves of Kazakhstan are equivalent to the Saudi Arabian ones. Moreover, American oil society linked to Bush and his government have been massively investing in that area for 10 years and had big interests in the building of that pipe-line. Another objective of the war in Afghanistan was to reinforce the American military presence in central Asia, next to Russia and China. American outposts in Afghanistan were added to those already established in the 90’s in Kirghistan and Uzbekistan.
For the following of the operation, the United States needed to establish powerful and permanent bases in Middle-East, in another country than Saudi Arabia. Because since the attacks of September 11 in which 15 Saudi took part, Saudi Arabia wasn’t considered anymore as a reliable ally, but as a potential target. The US bases in Saudi Arabia are currently in transfer toward Qatar, but this small country has a vulnerable geographical position, stuck between Iran and Saudi Arabia. So another “host country” was required. From that state of mind, American strategists decided to seize Iraq, which has ideal conditions: a central geographical position, a strategic alternative to Arabian oil, and a tyrannical regime whose hateful image was supposed to ease the legitimating of the war among the public. And finally, Iraq was an easy prey for America with an army who would oppose minimal resistance, weakened by the first gulf war and 12 years of embargo.
For the Bush administration, the operation against Iraq also had a communicative function, to hide their (voluntary) incapacity to neutralize Usama Bin Laden and Al Quaïda.
The justification for the war given by Bush was that Iraq represented a danger because of his weapons of mass destruction. The existence of these weapons could be proven neither by the UN inspectors, nor by the American troops. At no moments of the war Saddam Hussein used the chemical and biological weapons America accused him to hold. Even his conventional army was too weak to oppose a serious resistance to the American army. And even the links between Saddam Hussein and Ben Laden could not be proven, and would be non-existent according to the CIA itself. Conscious of the weaknesses of the initial justification of the war, the Bush administration created another reason in the middle of the thing: "the liberation of the Iraqi people". Thus, the "shock and awe" campaign and its massive bombing had a humanitarian goal...
I remind you that in his concern about the people’s happiness, the United States who had previously settled Saddam Hussein and his Baas party to power in 1972, thanks to a coup d’etat supported by the CIA. The former president of Iraq, a communist, wanted to nationalize the oil companies of the country.
Just like Ben Laden, Saddam Hussein is a creation of the United States.
To the contempt of the international law, the United States carried out a war of invasion and occupation. The only precedents in the recent history were the fact of dictatorships:
The invasion of Kuwait by Saddam Hussein’s dictatorship in 1991, the invasion of the Falklands islands by the dictatorship of the Argentinean Generals, the invasion of Hungary and Czechoslovakia by the USSR, and the invasion of Czechoslovakia and Poland by the Nazi Germany of Adolph Hitler.
In addition, if the conquest of Iraq was easy thanks to the crushing superiority of the America’s army, the occupation of Iraq is most likely to evolve to some kind of permanent terrorist guerrilla in whom the United States could be stoken for years. Since the end of the war, it hasn’t been a day without American casualties from ambushes or attacks.
But the very worse thing is the use of weapons prohibited by the UN. For short: the only WMD in Iraq are those brought by the Americans...
Examples:
1) The city of falhoudja underwent heavy bombing with shells full of napalm combined to white phosphor. Both products are prohibited since the 80’s. White phosphor alone causes important necroses to mucous membranes and skin. It also burns the lungs from inside when breath. Then, combined to napalm, it can reach more than 3000°C.
2) The massive use of depleted uranium.
The shells with depleted uranium are manufactured from radioactive waste form nuclear power plants (which also provide a "solution" to the USA to get rid of this waste). They also contain plutonium, highly radioactive during 4.5 billion of years.
It gas been used in Yugoslavia and during the first gulf war. Since 1991 in Iraq, the cases of cancer and leukemia were heightened by 50, and a lot of babies are born with diseases similar to those seen in Hiroshima and Nagasaki after 1945.
As an indication, depleted uranium consists of 99.8% of uranium 238 (half-life: 4.47 billion of years) and 0.2% of Uranium 235 (half-life: 704 million of years). The mankind appeared 4 million of years ago...
According to Jimmy they used depleted uranium in everything: from 500 tons bombs to small arms bullets. The tactical advantage of depleted uranium is that it’s denser than steel, so it can easily penetrate the most advanced armor. But, in that case, the use of such weapons is completely useless as the only remaining armored vehicles the republican guards had are old-fashioned BMP (soviet light armored combat infantry vehicles from the 50’s – can be wipe out with a single AT-14). And for the presence of depleted uranium in anti-personal weapons, I don’t get it. Why do they want to do? Get a higher penetration against men? Do they want to make combos with camels?
Jimmy’s experience:
3rd.Le pacte du sang. « Trop bon, trop con »
« C'est ça, la pacification ? J'ai du mal à m'y faire », ai-je dit d'une voix nauséeuse. « Vieux, il faut mûrir un coup. Si tu continues à faire des remous, ils vont te juger comme criminel de guerre. »
Nous avons atteint le site militaire d'Al-Rashid par une journée couverte, sombre et glauque. [...] Quand nous nous sommes arrêtés, j'ai vu dix Irakiens, à environ 150 mètres. Ils avaient moins de 40 ans, étaient assez propres sur eux et vêtus du traditionnel habit blanc. Ils se tenaient sur la route en agitant des bannières et criaient des slogans antiaméricains. [...] C'est alors que j'ai entendu un coup de feu passer juste au-dessus de nos têtes, de droite à gauche. J'ai couru jusqu'au milieu de la route pour voir ce qui se passait. J'avais à peine rejoint Schutz que mes mecs ont défouraillé sur les manifestants. Il ne m'a fallu que trois secondes pour épauler. J'ai vérifié mes appuis et aligné mes éléments de visée sur le centre de la masse corporelle d'un manifestant. J'ai inspiré profondément et, en expirant, j'ai ouvert doucement l'oeil droit et j'ai tiré. J'ai regardé les balles frapper le manifestant en pleine poitrine. Mes marines gueulaient : « Venez, fioles ! Vous voulez vous battre ? »
J'ai tout de suite acquis une nouvelle cible, un manifestant à quatre pattes qui essayait de fuir le plus vite possible. Rapidement, je l'ai visé à la tête, j'ai inspiré profondément, expiré, et j'ai tiré à nouveau. Une tête : boum ! Une autre : boum ! Le centre d'une masse, dans le mille : boum ! Une autre : boum ! J'ai continué, jusqu'au moment où je n'ai plus perçu aucun mouvement chez les manifestants. Il n'y a pas eu de coups de feu en retour. J'ai dû tirer une douzaine de coups. Le tout n'a pas duré plus de deux minutes et demie.
First of all : they received intelligence reports saying that the Fedayeen and Republican Guards were wearing civilian clothes, were mounting terrorist attacks against U.S. soldiers and marines using guerrilla-style tactics, suicide bombings, also that they were using civilians as human shields and finaly that they were loading down stolen ambulances and police cars with explosives. That's enough to get anxious and stressed, add that to what i've spent 10 minutes to explain at the begining and you can understand the cause of that kind of behaviour. Actually the only attack they underwent was an Ambush at the outskirt of the first Iraqi city they went. That was the only time they encountered ennemy soldiers, every time they approached a military outpost, it was empty. So they are trained to kill, and then they are sent to fight an ennemy that never shows up. So from all the things I just said, you can also add there frustrations. The ammount of these things would lead anyone to extreme abuses. Let’s take the example of the Haditha hospital. A booby-trapped car blew 500 meters from this hospital, near an American convoy. The hospital itself underwent damages. And the soldiers claimed that the rebels had escaped in that clinic. Then snipers arrived with flashbangs into the hospital and has been occupied from 21o’clock midnight. In one of the block, the American arrested all medics, so the operations have been stopped. In the building, the soldiers destroyed everything they could get in their hands. They also set fire to the deposit and the wash-house. The fire lasted nine hours and they haven’t done anything to estinguish it. A 35 years old patient was also killed on his bed.
Second thing : the author said that in his book he wanted to reflect his thoughts (that’s why he used that kind of language). And we can clearly notice the concequences of his mental conditioning, he acted or even thought as if he had been programmed to do that. As he said in the first chapter, he wasn’t born with that mindset, he got it from the USMC.
At last : about the rules of engagement. When Massey asked his Commanding Officer what about it, he simply replied : As we are fighting terrorists here, the geneva’s convention don’t need to be applied… Actually they concidered the ennemy as some kind of vermin, because as I said, one of the main point of his formation was to dehumazine the ennemy. And, again, it’s that kind of mindset that cause things such as what happenned in Abu-Grahib.
Je savais qu'on leur avait aussi tiré dans le dos ; certains d'entre eux rampaient et leurs vêtements blancs avaient viré au rouge. La 5,56 des M-16 est une balle méchante : elle ne tue pas sur le coup. Par exemple, elle peut entrer dans la poitrine et ressortir par le genou en déchirant tous les organes internes sur sa route. Mes gars sautaient dans tous les sens. Taylor et Gaumont beuglaient : « Revenez, chochottes ! » « Ils ne savent pas se battre, ces enculés ! Putains de lavettes ! » Ils se donnaient des tapes dans le dos en échangeant des « super-boulot ! », mais ils étaient frustrés parce que certains manifestants avaient quand même réussi à s'enfuir. Je voulais continuer à tirer, je n'arrêtais pas de me dire : « Mon Dieu, il doit y en avoir d'autres. » C'était comme de manger la première cuillerée de votre glace préférée. On en redemande. [...]
Ces manifestants étaient les premières personnes que je tuais. [...] Ça m'avait fait un putain d'effet. Quelle montée d'adrénaline, la vache ! La peur devient un moteur. Elle vous pousse. Ça me faisait plus d'effet que la meilleure herbe que j'avais fumée. C'était comme si tous ceux que j'avais haïs, toute la colère qui s'était accumulée en moi, s'étaient retrouvés dans cet être-là ; on a l'impression d'absorber la vie comme un cannibale. On est vraiment content de soi, on se sent puissant et tout devient clair. On atteint le nirvana, comme un espace d'un blanc lumineux. Mais, au fil des heures, on redescend du nirvana et on se retrouve dans des eaux sombres ; on nage dans une mare de boue et le seul moyen de retrouver cette impression, c'est de tuer à nouveau. [...]
Après avoir démarré, au coucher du soleil, nous avons entendu des tirs, au moins une centaine. La compagnie Lima avait ouvert le feu sur un véhicule. J'ai appris plus tard qu'il y avait à l'intérieur trois femmes et un enfant. Autant que je sache, il n'y a jamais eu d'enquête. [...]
Quarante-cinq minutes plus tard, une Kia Spectra rouge est arrivée vers nous à environ 60 Km/h. Elle a pénétré en zone verte, quelques-uns de mes marines ont lâché un tir de sommation et le sniper a tiré dans le moteur, mais les dégâts n'ont pas empêché le véhicule de continuer en zone rouge. Les véhicules installés à l'arrière ont aussitôt ouvert le feu avec leurs 240 Gulf, nous avons enchaîné avec nos M-16, visé la voiture et tiré au moins 200 bastos à toute vitesse. La Kia s'est arrêtée dans un crissement à environ 25 mètres de mon Humvee, et mes marines ont fondu sur le véhicule et ont commencé à en extraire les quatre Irakiens blessés. Les occupants, des hommes jeunes vêtus avec goût, saignaient abondamment. [...] Six brancardiers sont arrivés avec des civières et les ont emmenés. Le survivant est alors venu vers moi en gémissant, une expression torturée lui barrait le visage. Il regardait en l'air, les mains levées : « Pourquoi vous avez tué mon frère ? On ne vous a rien fait. Nous ne sommes pas des terroristes. »
Je me suis éloigné sans rien lui dire et je suis allé m'asseoir dans mon véhicule, abattu. Je suis ressorti en entendant les marines et les brancardiers ramener les occupants de la Kia. « Mais, putain, pourquoi vous les ramenez ? - Sergent-chef, le MO 1 a dit qu'il ne pouvait rien faire pour eux. » J'ai regardé les Irakiens, contenant difficilement ma colère. Ils gigotaient, gémissaient, mourant à petit feu et dans la souffrance. [...] Je n'arrivais pas à parler. Je suis allé regarder l'intérieur de la voiture. Evidemment, il n'y avait ni armes ni explosifs. J'étais de plus en plus dégoûté.
A very nice example. A guy want to flee out of Baghad, head toward a roadblock held by an army supposed to help his people, and get his brother killed.. So then what? “Sorry, wrong place wrong time, goodbye”. So then, he will grab one of the RPG’s lying off the road that the american didn’t mind picking up. And shoot them. You now know how 90% of the population became against the american occupation.
Talking about roadblocks : the guys there concidered anyone as a potencial suicide bomber, and the polulation quickly learnt to avoid them… I’m sure that you’ve all heard what hapenned to that italian journalist and his driver…
You got plenty of those… proffesionnal mistakes. An example in the book is when they had spotted a strange truck, they could have simply search it out but they brought an AH-64 to shoot it with the mother and her children next to it…
One day, Jimmy said to his commanding officer :
“You know, sir, we're not going to have to worry about the Iraq -- you know, we're basically committing genocide over here, mass extermination of thousands of Iraqis, and with the depleted uranium that we're leaving around on the battlefield, we're setting up genocide for future generations within Iraq.”
The lieutenant said nothing and went away. From that moment, his career in the military was over. He knew that the statement he had made was going to bring about the blackball pretty quickly. So, he was scurried out of Iraq quickly, and ordered to report back stateside to receive psychological therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder and major depression. When he got back stateside, that's when things really became ugly. He had to hire a lawyer because they were trying to pin him with conscientious objector, an informer, and basically, they were doing everything in their power to threaten and to intimidate him so that he would go U.A.. Fortunately, he managed to avoid their trap and managed to leave permanently the Marines. Then in 2004, he has been asked to do an interview which was published on Frebruary the 9th. After that, the journalist recieved a letter from Jimmy's former captain who said that Massey was actually ineficient and lazy, that he was a danger for the other marines and that they had done whatever they could do to avoid civilians casualties and even putting their lives in danger, he also said that Massey did that as a revenge against the USMC who fired him. So who sould we trust? Before the publishing of the interview, his writer talked to some of Jimmy's men who said that he was he very good chief always in concern about them. But after the publishing of the interview, they had very different remarks. Anyway, after Massey's testimony other guys began to talk. And most of them were soldiers that didn't wanted to go back to Iraq because of what they've seen.
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