Reply #6: MacBeth stutters through the whole video --

[IndyOp]

Below is a rough paraphrase of what he said - I just typed fast while he talked. I missed a lot and probably typed some things wrong. Most of what I have here, MacBeth said...

I got sh-sh-shipped off to Oson. Once I got there (Baghdad) the whole aspect of the country changed. Our job over there is to strike fear in the heart of Iraqis. Do whatever it takes to make them fear you. T-t-t-o be brutal. We have our own purpose. We aren't there for them. The Geneva Convention ain't nothing but crap. I thought we were going over the liberate the people. Operation Iraqi Freedom - it was more like Operation Iraqi Slaughter. Most of them were families hiding down there but we were told Saddam's forces were down there, a lot of them were dead, but a lot of them weren't dead. Smell of burnt flesh, people crying. They thought we were there for them. Seeing people lying around and rotting. S-s-s-some of them that weren't wounded very bad, we had to kill them. After witnessing that it changed me. I feel like I lost a lot of myself. W-w-we would go in, there would be an average of 5-6 people that were hurt just a little bit, they avoided the main blast because they hid behind something, a lot of time they knew there weren't insurgents in there, I think they said that to make it look like we were doing the right thing. The insurgents did a lot of jacked-up stuff to the American soldiers. People have a right to fight for their families. I don't blame them. I would do the same thing. By not speaking out I feel like I am betraying all my boys that died. We would do night raids, we would have them on their knees, if the man of the house did not answer we would shoot the youngest kid in the head. An average joe, trying to support his family. We would start killing off his family until he told us something. I didn't feel anything. I just wanted to do my job. I had to make myself hate them in order to do my job. I had to make myself not think of them as people, think of them as a target, so I could complete my job. I didn't keep counted, b-b-b-y my hand alone there were probably over 200 people taken out - that is a rough estimate. They'd be close enough they'd actually feel the hot from my rifle on their forehead. We did stuff that scared them first. A couple of guys would fondle their wife just to piss them off to get them to say something. We'd do that to several houses, slaughtering 30-40 people a night, women and children. I was trained in Ranger school. I wanted to fight other elite soldiers, but I had to fight women and kids and other people who don't know how to fight. I am disappointed in my government, but I didn't say anything because I would've been locked up, court-martialed. We'd go into a mosque (infiltrate ahead of time) a couple of hundred people would be praying and we'd start slaughtering them taking them out. We'd burn their bodies like they did to us, hang them by the rafters of the mosque and we'd write stuff like "Allah kiss my ass" and we'd leave a few bodies in the street. My country turned me into this very same thing that I'm fighting against. We were the terrorists, fighting a whole country that didn't do nothing wrong to us. I feel the death of my battle buddies and my suffering and of all the soldiers over there it was for crap. It was for nothing. I speak out to justify their deaths. But you know a lot of Iraqi's didn't want us there. We shot at protesters, we were told they had weapons, we took them out - we didn't find any weapons afterwards. Kids throwing rocks, people burning signs - OUR JOB WAS KILL, KILL, KILL. Red blood makes the green grass grow - we were there to make the green grass grow in the desert. I'm ashamed of being there. I'm ashamed of taking part in one of the hugest, most scandolous things of our government. Iraq is... a lot of people are dying, I lost a lot of buddies myself. A lot of people are coming home messed up in the head. THE MAJORITY OF AMERICANS DOESN"T CARE. There's homeless Vietnam Veterans, homeless Gulf War veterans, homeless Iraq war veterans. The DEATH TOLL OF IRAQIS IS NOT WHAT THEY SAY IN THE NEWS - IT IS 100,000's OF PEOPLE. I've seen big old huge ground pits - how can they hide all them deaths, all of them innocent people. It is like MASS GENOCIDE. Our country has become terrorists, that is why people hate us. I'm tired of Iraq, I'm tired of turning on the news and seeing all the deaths of all these people because I took part in that. I remember this one time - it was after we raided a house, a lady was holding her 3 kids, one of them was about 1 year old, the others maybe 5 or 7 - she had blood on her hands. I saw the first one, she was begging me to save her, to save her kids, but I didn't you know. I killed her you know because that is what I had to do. Not a day goes by I don't regret that. I think of my own son, what if that was my own son. What we're doing over there is wrong. I can't say it enough. If you have dreams of serving your country, you can do it another way, you can do it by stopping the war. A lot of Vietnam people would tell me 'war is not what you think it is' - I didn't believe them. The military will lie to you, will manipulate you. Look at Iraq - we are terrorizing that nation and we are getting away with it. Don't fight for a war over money or a war to take over the whole middle east. The military isn't what it used to be. Find out everything - all the lies and stuff. The next thing you know there will be Iran Veterans Against the War, Syrian Veterans Against the War, China Veterans Against the War. The government is doing SO MUCH to keep us from being heard. The mainstream media will cut it out - I talk so much - they cut it out because they don't think people want to hear. I'm so dedicated to this - if it takes me holding up a flag, me getting killed to stop this I will do it. I want my family safe. Bring us home. Bring us home.