Reply #106: Haviv was EMBEDDED with Massey's unit.

[MADem]

Think back to the buildup of Monkey's Great War. NO JOURNALISTS were allowed in without embed credentials. There were five guys with his unit, and Ron was one of them. The PD reporter was another.

If you read the whole article, and also research Massey's own statements, his radio appearances, his book, and so forth, you see that he changes his story virtually every time he opens his mouth.

The kid had problems, but I think we are better served by accounts from people who were there when things started getting really rough--during the actual OCCUPATION--not someone who rode through Iraq enroute to Baghdad, and then bagged it. The guy did less than two months in theater BEFORE the insurgency, before the IEDs, the car bombs, the RPGs, and so on.

War is scary as hell and most people are not cut out for it--that's normal, it's self-preservation. But this guy wants to have it both ways, and I still say he is a bullshitter who HURTS the antiwar cause.