@AmerGovtCriminalsExposer: "Monday, 22 May 2006 (NWBC 172) Ex-soldier, US: "If he didn't
answer the way we liked, we would shoot his youngest kid in
the head"
2006-05-22, 12:21 GMT:
At the website LiveJournal, "mparent7777" wrote yesterday,
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Ex -US soldier: 'If he didn't answer the way we liked, we
would shoot his youngest kid in the head'
May 21, 2006
Jessie Macbeth, a Former Army Ranger and Iraq War Veteran
Tells All
This 20 minute interview will change how you view the U.S.
occupation of Iraq forever. I cannot possibly recommend this
more highly. An Iraq war veteran tells of atrocities he and
other fellow-soldiers committed reguarly while in Iraq. I
have never seen this level of honesty from a U.S. soldier who
directly participated in the slaughtering of Iraqis.
Excerpts:
"When we were doing the night raids in the houses, we would
pull people out and have them all on their knees and
zip-tied. We would ask the man of the house questions. If he
didn't answer the way we liked, we would shoot his youngest
kid in the head. We would keep going, this was our interro-
gation. He could be innocent. He could be just an average Joe
trying to support his family. If he didn't give us a satis-
factory answer, we'd start killing off his family until he
told us something. If he didn't know anything, I guess he was
SOL."
and
"For not speaking out, I feel like I'm betraying my battle-
buddies that died."
Watch the video here.
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    @AmerGovtCriminalsExposer: ""eggie2486" <email_address> wrote in message 
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And the dumb fucking yanks wonder and do research for decades and decades 
why they are the MOST HATED NATION on earth.
Roflmao
Look, if you think any American official is going to tell you the truth,
then you're stupid. Did you hear that? - stupid."
Arthur Sylvester, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs, 1965
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety."
Benjamin Franklin, 1759
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his
government."
Edward Abbey
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Pax anti- american imperialism and terrorism is a philosophy.
Making sure evil, imperialistic american govt does not turn me into a slave
like majority of the americans, is liberty building.
Think of it as somebody beating the shit out of EVIL AMERICAN GOVT
CRIMINALS, MURDERERS and TERRORISTS for being FASCIST and GENOCIDAL."
    @AmerGovtCriminalsExposer: ""eggie2486" <email_address> wrote in message 
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In case you havent read this yet.
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US SOLDIERS PLAYED SOCCER with a SEVERED IRAQI HEAD
TORONTO (CP) - A "trigger-happy" U.S. army squad leader shot the foot
off an unarmed Iraqi man and soldiers kicked a severed head around like
a soccer ball, a U.S. war deserter told an Immigration and Refugee
Board hearing Thursday.
Joshua Key, the first U.S. deserter with combat experience in Iraq to
apply for refugee status in Canada, told the board he witnessed
numerous atrocities committed by U.S. forces while serving eight months
as a combat engineer.
Key, 27, said he was never trained on the Geneva Convention and was
told in Iraq by superior officers that the international law guiding
humanitarian standards was just a "guideline."
"It's shoot first, ask questions later," Key said of his squad's
guiding principles. "Everything's justified."
Key is one of five members of the U.S. armed forces asking for asylum
in Canada.
But the Oklahoma native is unique in that he is the only applicant that
has combat experience in Iraq, said Key's lawyer, Jeffry House. The
other are seeking asylum in Canada to avoid being sent there, he said.
"He has boots-on-the-ground experience about what the actual conduct of
the war in Iraq is," House said outside the hearing.
With visible bags under his eyes, Key told the hearing he suffers from
post-traumatic stress disorder and frequently has nightmares over what
he witnessed in Iraq.
He recalled participating in almost nightly raids on homes of suspected
insurgents in Ramadi and Fallujah as a member of the 43rd Combat
Engineer Company.
He said that while the raids seldom turned up anything of interest, he
often saw soldiers ransack the homes and steal jewelry or money, while
superior officers looked the other way.
He also said several Iraqis were shot dead, and that they were cases of
soldiers "shooting out of fear and inventing reasons afterward."
In Ramadi, Key said he saw the beheaded bodies of four Iraqis beside a
shot-up truck and witnessed several members of the Florida National
Guard kick a severed head "like a soccer ball."
Key also said he witnessed one of his "trigger happy" platoon's squad
sergeants shoot part of an unarmed Iraqi man's foot off in Khaldia, a
village between Fallujah and Ramadi. The man was sitting on a chair
outside a store and had raised his foot as a sign of disrespect, he
said.
Key added he was never questioned about the incident and was not aware
of any charges being laid.
Keith Brennenstuhl, the IRB member overseeing the hearing, ruled at an
earlier hearing that the board would not consider the legality of the
U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.
Key also described seeing U.S. soldiers indiscriminately kick and
scream at two hooded and naked detainees while escorting them to a
grassy area to relieve themselves.
Brennenstuhl asked Key whether he received any interrogation training
before dragging detainees out of their homes during raids.
"The only thing we were told was how to keep them quiet," Key said,
explaining that soldiers cuffed prisoners' hands behind their backs and
put hoods over their heads.
"Could they breathe?" Brennenstuhl asked.
"I guess it wasn't my concern," Key responded, adding that officers
said the hoods were designed "to humiliate them."
Key, the father of four young children, told the hearing he joined the
army for steady pay and medical coverage for his family. He said he
initially went to Iraq as a willing participant because he believed
U.S. intelligence claims that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.
But Key became disillusioned with the war during his service and
decided to abandon his contract with the army during a two-week leave
from Iraq in November 2003.
He and his family lived on the run in Philadelphia before crossing the
border at Niagara Falls, N.Y., on March 3, 2005.
Key now works as a welder in Fort St. John, B.C. He and his wife Brandi
have four children between the ages of seven months and six years.
If returned to the United States, Key said he believed the army would
"make an example" of him as a way to deter other possible deserters.
Lawyers from all parties will submit their written submissions in the
coming weeks before the board rules on Key's application.
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