An Early-Stage John Kerry Has Been Outed

For over a year, former Marine Jimmy Massey has been telling anyone who will listen about the atrocities that he and other Marines supposedly committed in Iraq. Mainstream Media lapdogs disguised as reporters have, well, lapped it up, and as one would unfortunately expect, not followed up. In the process, Massey has become something of a folk hero of the Iraqi War opposition (first three paras at link).

Oops. It turns out that Massey is a “Winter Soldier” in training, because, well, uh, he’s not telling the truth (HT Michelle Malkin):

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.

Among his claims:
- Marines fired on and killed peaceful Iraqi protesters.
- Americans shot a 4-year-old Iraqi girl in the head.
- A tractor-trailer was filled with the bodies of civilian men, women and children killed by American artillery.

Massey’s claims have gained him celebrity. Last month, Massey’s book, “Kill, Kill, Kill,” was released in France. His allegations have been reported in nationwide publications such as Vanity Fair and USA Today, as well as numerous broadcast reports. Earlier this year, he joined the anti-war bus tour of Cindy Sheehan, and he’s spoken at Cornell and Syracuse universities, among others.

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.

Each of his claims is either demonstrably false or exaggerated - according to his fellow Marines, Massey’s own admissions, and the five journalists who were embedded with Massey’s unit, including a reporter and photographer from the Post-Dispatch and reporters from The Associated Press and The Wall Street Journal.

You gotta love those embedded reporters; this unmasking alone vindicates the move by the military to allow them to accompany our soldiers. If they weren’t there it would be Massey’s word against the military, and of course you know who the press would believe, even with the way Massey’s stories changed over time. Now they’ll have to claim the embeds sold out. Ha-Good luck.

Earth to protesters and John Kerry wannabes: You’re going to have to be a lot more clever to pull off in 2005 with what Kerry and his Vietnam-era liars got away with in the late 1960s. Chances are you will, eventually, be outed. If you’re outrageous enough, someone may even have the guts to call you what you are to your face: traitors.
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UPDATE: More from Gateway Pundit on Kerry-Massy commonality, and Vietnam’s lying traitors assisting today’s lying traitors.