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Ex-U.S. Marine: I Killed Civilians in Iraq
Michael Moore Takes Top Prize at Cannes Film Festival
Ex-U.S. Marine: I Killed Civilians in Iraq
Ex-Marine Staff Sergeant Jimmy Massey talks about his time
in Iraq where he admitted the U.S. treatment of Iraqi civilians
is fueling the Iraqi resistance. In a recent interview he
said "I felt like we were committing genocide in Iraq."
The US Army is denying reports that the highest-ranking American
officer in Iraq, Lieutenant-General Ricardo Sanchez, was present
during some of the interrogations and prisoner abuse at Abu
Ghraib prison outside of Baghdad. This follows a report in
The Washington Post over the weekend about an April 2nd military
hearing on the prisoner torture allegations. According to
The Post, a lawyer representing one of the accused soldiers
said that the commander of the U.S. military police company
at the centre of the abuse scandal, Donald Reese, told him
that General Sanchez was aware of what was taking place.
Tonight President Bush will deliver a prime time address
on Iraq aimed in part at controlling the damage from the situation
at Abu Ghraib. Meanwhile, Conscientious Objector Sgt. Camillo
Mejia was sentenced to a year in prison for desertion from
the Army. His application for CO status mentioned prisoner
abuse in Iraq long before the current scandal.
Now another US soldier who participated in the Iraq invasion
and occupation has begun speaking out. Twelve year Marine
veteran Jimmy Massey joins us on the line from North Carolina.
- Marine Staff Segt. Jimmy Massey (Ret.), former Marine
staff sergeant who was honorably discharged in December
after serving 12 years, most recently in Iraq. He is speaking
to us from his home in Waynesville, North Carolina in the
Smokey Mountains.
Michael Moore Takes Top Prize at Cannes Film Festival
At the Cannes film festival, Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit
9/11" became the first documentary in nearly 50 years
to take the festival's coveted top prize the Palme d'Or. During
his acceptance speech he said, "I want to make sure if
I do nothing else for this year that those who have died in
Iraq have not died in vain."
In a matter of weeks Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11"
has gone from the documentary Disney did not want you to see
to the most talked about film in the world. On Saturday Moore
took home the prestigious Palme d'Or in Cannes. We play his
acceptance speech, and replay his Oscar appearance last year
as well as an excerpt from an interview Moore did with Democracy
Now! on the day Dude, Where is My Country?
- Michael Moore, speaking on Saturday at the Cannes Film
Festival
- Michael Moore, speaking at the 2003 Academy Awards
- Michael Moore, speaking with Amy Goodman on Democracy
Now!
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