Jesse Macbeth - An Iraq Veteran Speaks Out
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***The video 'Jesse Macbeth: An Iraq Veteran Speaks Out' is no longer for sale and has been removed from peacefilms.org at the request of Iraq Veterans Against the War, pending further investigation into the situation. For more information please visit the IVAW ( http://www.ivaw.net ) website.***
Army Ranger's testimony shows war crimes were ordered from higher up the chain of command, and were common...
There is a current story in the US press about a squad of Marines that are being investigated for "war crimes" after they murdered a whole Iraqi family one night a few months back. US officials are approaching this story as if this wasn't standard procedure, and are focusing on holding the individual Marines accountable. Jesse Macbeth blows the lid off that story.
Macbeth is a former US Army Ranger, who served in Iraq for 16 months before being wounded and ultimately discharged. His squad did night raids, using the same techniques the Marines are accused of, 4 or 5 times a night for many months. Macbeth, who is now a member of Iraq Veterans Against the War was interviewed for the public access TV show "Indymedia Presents."
In this interview Jesse describes killing children to make the parents talk. He describes one episode where his squad responded to the much-reported incident in Falluja where 4 US mercenaries were killed and hung from a bridge. Shortly after Iraqis killed the mercenaries, according to Macbeth, his squad of Rangers gunned down Iraqis praying inside a mosque on a holy day, then hung some of the bodies from rafters, and defaced the mosque with graffiti.
Macbeth's hand held the smoking gun, and his testimony in this interview shows clearly that the Marines who are now in trouble for very similar actions are not the exception to US tactics in Iraq, but represent only one in many incidents of war crimes.
During the US invasion and occupation of Viet Nam, testimony of returning soldiers helped turn the tide of public opinion. The gory details of US misbehavior in Viet Nam did not fit the American self image and the more people learned about what was really going on over there, the less they supported the war effort. Jesse Macbeth's story has the same compelling quality to alert the American people and turn the tide of public opinion.
Filesize.....: 47.9 MB (or 49,108 KB or 50,286,592 bytes)
Runtime......: 00:21:34 (19,386 fr)
Video Codec..: DivX 5.0
Video Bitrate: 275 kb/s
Audio Codec..: 0x0055(MP3) ID'd as MPEG-2 Layer 3
Audio Bitrate: 32 kb/s, monophonic CBR
Frame Size...: 320x240 (1.33:1) [=4:3]
Army Ranger's testimony shows war crimes were ordered from higher up the chain of command, and were common...
There is a current story in the US press about a squad of Marines that are being investigated for "war crimes" after they murdered a whole Iraqi family one night a few months back. US officials are approaching this story as if this wasn't standard procedure, and are focusing on holding the individual Marines accountable. Jesse Macbeth blows the lid off that story.
Macbeth is a former US Army Ranger, who served in Iraq for 16 months before being wounded and ultimately discharged. His squad did night raids, using the same techniques the Marines are accused of, 4 or 5 times a night for many months. Macbeth, who is now a member of Iraq Veterans Against the War was interviewed for the public access TV show "Indymedia Presents."
In this interview Jesse describes killing children to make the parents talk. He describes one episode where his squad responded to the much-reported incident in Falluja where 4 US mercenaries were killed and hung from a bridge. Shortly after Iraqis killed the mercenaries, according to Macbeth, his squad of Rangers gunned down Iraqis praying inside a mosque on a holy day, then hung some of the bodies from rafters, and defaced the mosque with graffiti.
Macbeth's hand held the smoking gun, and his testimony in this interview shows clearly that the Marines who are now in trouble for very similar actions are not the exception to US tactics in Iraq, but represent only one in many incidents of war crimes.
During the US invasion and occupation of Viet Nam, testimony of returning soldiers helped turn the tide of public opinion. The gory details of US misbehavior in Viet Nam did not fit the American self image and the more people learned about what was really going on over there, the less they supported the war effort. Jesse Macbeth's story has the same compelling quality to alert the American people and turn the tide of public opinion.
Filesize.....: 47.9 MB (or 49,108 KB or 50,286,592 bytes)
Runtime......: 00:21:34 (19,386 fr)
Video Codec..: DivX 5.0
Video Bitrate: 275 kb/s
Audio Codec..: 0x0055(MP3) ID'd as MPEG-2 Layer 3
Audio Bitrate: 32 kb/s, monophonic CBR
Frame Size...: 320x240 (1.33:1) [=4:3]
