Wizbang has picked up on this story, that along with a reader who left a link to an article about this Massey guy says A LOT about this:

WASHINGTON
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.

He has a book that was published in France? He’s spoken at Canadian Immigration Hearings? He hangs out with Cindy Sheehan? There we have it. He’s a certified liberal. What a tool.

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.

Why would anyone in the MSM bother to fact check the rantings of a former Marine? (Who just so happens to be anti war?) His lies and half truths fit right in with the liberal, John Kerry like rhetoric that fits their agenda.

Massey was discharged in December 2003, shortly after returning from Iraq due to depression and post-traumatic stress syndrome.

He began turning up in the press and on broadcasts last spring with stories about military atrocities. Massey’s primary thrust has been that Marines from his battalion – some of whom, he told a Minneapolis audience, were “psychopathic killers” – recklessly shot and killed Iraqi civilians, sometimes, he said, upon orders from their commanders. During a hearing in Canada, Massey said, “We deliberately gunned down people who were civilians.”

The Marine Corps investigated Massey’s claims and said they were “unsubstantiated.”

Hearings in Canada AGAIN. This shows me that he’s a balless wonder who cannot bring forth his “concerns” about the actions of his fellow Marines-because it’s all lies. I bet those fellow Marines want to choke the bastard.

From the beginning, Massey misled reporters.

In early interviews, he told how he had lost his job at a furniture store because of his anti-war activities. But when asked about the incident in an interview Oct. 19 with the Post-Dispatch, Massey said he had quit his job but
never had felt pressure to leave.

“I left on good terms,” he said.

He also backtracked from allegations he made in a May 2004 radio interview and elsewhere that he had seen a tractor-trailer filled with the bodies of Iraqi civilians when Marines entered an Iraqi military prison outside Baghdad. He said the Iraqis had been killed by American artillery.

He told listeners that the scene was so bad “that the plasma from the body and skin was decomposing and literally oozing out of the crevices of the tractor-trailer bed.”

He repeated the story in the Post-Dispatch interview. But when told that the newspaper’s photographs and eyewitness reports had identified the trailer contents as all men, mostly in uniform, Massey admitted that he had never seen the bodies.

Instead, he said, he received his information from “intelligence reports.” When asked if those reports were official documents, he answered, “No, that’s what the other Marines told me.”

Plasma oozing out of the truck? Not likely. Since he didn’t actually see anything he should not have claimed something different. He has a huge problem with credibility now. Another asset for the liberals.

Reading the rest of this article will point out all of his lies…the shame of this man to dishonor the American military and his fellow Marines in such a way. The last part, though, really got me:

In a speech in Syracuse in March, the Post Standard newspaper quoted him as saying, “The reason the Marines teach you discipline . . . is so that you can confront the enemy and kill him. . . . Or so you can put a bullet into a 6-year-old, which is what I did. ”

In the interview with the Post-Dispatch, Massey said he never personally had shot a child.

“I meant that’s what my unit did,” he said.

He could not provide details.

Nor could he name any Marine who could corroborate any of his stories.

“Admitting guilt is a hard thing to do,” he said.