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Interviewing
Captain Eric H. May,
Ghost Troop CO
Antiwar
Warrior?
B.J. Sabri: In a 2004 email
to Susan Elan of The Journal News, you wrote, “I
am pleased see that the antiwar is joining the infowar.”
You sound like an antiwar activist. If you really are an antiwar
military man, why did you take part in a war that you may have
known was based on lies?
Captain May: I was no longer a serving soldier
on 9/11, or during the ensuing wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
I accepted the official propaganda until the Battle of Baghdad
Cover-Up (BOBCUP). After that I became a critic of the wars
and the motives behind them.
War Crime and Punishment
BJ: You say, “War is just homicide
on a national scale.” Homicide against whom, U.S. military
personnel, who are the aggressors, or the people of Iraq, who
were attacked? Furthermore, the word homicide sounds
ordinary. Why not call it premeditated mass murder?
Whatever you call it, the war criminals who planned and carried
it out will likely go unpunished. Does this mean the United
States government and military are above the law?
Capt. May: No. I realize that my phrase “war
is just homicide on a national scale” is cold-blooded,
but it’s a professional military man’s objectivity.
I agree with you that moral judgments must be made, and elsewhere
I’ve judged the Global War on Terror quite harshly. In
an Al
Jazeerah
essay, I wrote that the American people have been duped
into war crimes, and called for the punishment of our leaders.
Whistleblower Jesse Macbeth
Kim Petersen: I first became acquainted with
you when you responded to Dissident Voice pulling an
article on allegations of U.S. military atrocities in Iraq by
a purported Army Ranger, Jesse Macbeth. However, Iraq Veterans
Against the War (IVAW) disavowed Macbeth, and his claims of
service were questioned. Lacking substantiation of his claims,
DV pulled the article, and other media outlets followed suit.
You decried this as a “hideous failure of American journalism.”
Do you still see Macbeth as a victim of swiftboating?
Capt. May: Yes, Jesse Macbeth is a perfect
example of a crucial dissident voice who had both courage and
a vital message. Just before the swiftboat attacks began, an
Arab-American TV show host, Dr. Hesham Tillawi of Current
Issues, asked me to review the Macbeth
interview. It sounded credible to me, a veteran of four
different decades of military service. Macbeth was specific
in terminology, tactics and training; and he was familiar with
Middle East geography, lifestyle, and attitude. There had already
been two local Arizona mainstream media stories about him as
a war veteran, neither previously challenged, and he had been
drawing benefits from the Veterans Administration.
 When
IVAW failed to support him, it was because administrator Amanda
Braxton, a lifelong civilian, caved in to the best swiftboating
attack since the presidential election of 2004. It was led by
men whose records in special operations, propaganda and Republican
war rallying made them seem more like mercenaries than media.
When I interviewed Braxton, she admitted that she had been frightened
into turning on Macbeth. Further, she mentioned that his IVAW
cohorts never doubted that he was a war veteran.
Given
my familiarity with the military system, I made calls all the
way to the top level of the Army requesting confirmation of
claims that Macbeth had never seen the war, and found that the
Army didn’t want to comment. Macbeth was attacked simply
because he said that we were using SS-style tactics against
Muslims.
The
alternative media chickened out on a crucial story, allowing
the mainstream media and political establishment to cover it
up. I wrote an article
about it before moving on to other critical stories.
The Battle of Baghdad
KP: I had heard about the Battle of Baghdad
at the airport from my colleague BJ Sabri, where reportedly
U.S. troops had suffered many losses, but you are the first
person I know to have reported about it online. You wrote that
it was kept from public consciousness, “hidden under the
distraction story of Private Jessica Lynch.” The Battle
of Baghdad still has not emerged into public consciousness.
Why do you think this is so?
Capt. May: In Ghost Troop, we never left the
cover-up unchallenged. In early April of 2007, as the fourth
anniversary of the Battle of Baghdad approached, The Lone
Star Iconoclast published an interview
with me updating my research on the cover-up. A few days later
Al Jazeera published an interview
with Iraqi General Mohammed Al-Rawi, who had commanded Saddam’s
forces at the airport. A few weeks later the U.S. Congress held
hearings
about media and military failure to report the truth from Iraq
and Afghanistan, especially in the cases of Pvt. Jessica Lynch
and Cpl. Pat Tillman.
I
believe that Ghost Troop and The Iconoclast gave Al
Jazeera and Congress the encouragement they needed to do
as much as they did. I believe that the continuing cover-up
by the mainstream and alternative media demonstrates that they
are in large part controlled by the same pro-war establishment
that has orchestrated everything, from 9/11 to the present,
to turn the American dream of security into the Muslim nightmare
of invasion.
Neutron Bombing Baghdad
BJ: There were many published emails that
you wrote where you argue the public’s right to know the
truth about the Battle of Baghdad. Since you were a witness
to history, and since many accounts confirm that the U.S. used
a neutron bomb to the end the battle, I ask you: Did the U.S.
use a neutron bomb?
Capt. May: When the Battle of Baghdad occurred,
I was at home in Texas, watching events on CNN. At that point
I knew that something catastrophic had happened in Saddam International
Airport, but I had no idea that it was something nuclear. Over
the next couple of years I received many reports from both Arab
and Western witnesses that we had used a neutron warhead. It
wasn’t until I joined the antiwar Camp Casey in 2005,
though, that I spoke with numerous witnesses together. They
included Army and Marine veterans of the Battle of Baghdad,
Arab witnesses and journalists. All their accounts, taken together,
convinced me that we had used a neutron bomb. Al-Rawi confirmed
the nuke in his Al Jazeera interview.
Bushmen and Zionazis
BJ: In your Philippic
contra George W. Bush, from your 2003 report to Congress,
you suggested that he should articulate this message to the
nation after the Battle of Baghdad began:
“We will not rest until the mission for which they
gave their lives is accomplished. We will not stop until we
have vanquished tyranny and terror abroad, and brought our
heroes home. That will be our tribute to the fallen. God Bless
America, Garry Owen, and goodnight.”
To
me, you kept George Bush’s essence, but just embellished
the rhetoric. Can you explain?
Capt. May: It’s likely that Bush himself
read my words, since we shared some acquaintances. In the philippic,
I attacked him as a lying coward, and to drive the point home
I wrote the words that I would have written for him had I been
his speechwriter at the time of the Battle of Baghdad. At that
point I still had no judgment about whether or not the war in
Iraq was legal or illegal. I was chiding him for not having
enough guts to admit facts.
I
was writing rhetoric, of course, by putting the best face on
the facts as I then believed them to be. Please bear in mind
that I was slamming the most powerful man on earth at a time
when he had shown himself to be tyrannical and murderous. Anyone
who writes a philippic must worry that it will be a fatal act
of defiance. A couple of days after I wrote mine, political
dissidents in the U.S. and U.K. began to be assassinated. It
was the topic of a recent article
about them and me.
BJ: What do you think now about the endless
wars of what many experts contend is a Zionist-controlled United
States government?
Capt. May: I guess I would have to call myself
one of the cynical experts. The United States has become a golem,
mindlessly carrying out proxy wars for Zionists. Until we awaken
as a nation to Israel’s machinations and manipulations
against our own interests, we are in great danger ourselves,
and represent a great danger to the rest of the world.
Nuclear Obama and 9/11-2B
KP: 9/11 provided a pretext for the so-called
War on Terror, and Ghost Troop has been vigilant in defending
against another 9/11. Does an Obama government affect the need
for such vigilance?
Capt. May: Not in the least. In his first year
in office, Obama has demonstrated conclusively that he is a
puppet for the war cabal. He needs another 9/11-style event
to re-energize the dictatorial Homeland and the imperial Global
War, which are nothing more than euphemisms for “Vaterland”
and “World War.” In Ghost Troop we use an operational
codename for this required next 9/11: We call it “9/11-2B”
— the 9/11 that the establishment assures us is going
“to be.” Just a month ago Obama’s intelligence
officials were projecting 9/11-2B in 3 to 6 months. The way
we look at it, that means this puppet president wants to set
up such an attack before the Congressional elections. Recent
emphasis on cyber operations is an indicator that 9/11-2B will
entail an attack on the Internet, the only remaining free medium
and the greatest impediment to totalitarian rule in the United
States.
Tyrants and Terrorists
BJ: Do you really think that these wars are
about tyranny and terror? In wider sense, do you think it is
about time that the American people stop doing what their rulers
incite them to do?
Capt. May: I do think that these wars are
about tyranny and terror, the tyranny and terror of psychopaths
who have seized power in the West. They intend to do far
worse deeds than they have done. The only way we can stop
them is by doing what you suggest: awakening the American people
to the perils of being misled by perfidious leaders and an evil
establishment. I am proud to be, like you, among the dissident
voices engaged in this historic struggle, in which we have transformed
the Internet into the printing press of the New American Revolution.
* Ambassador Chase Untermeyer, a rare friend of both Eric
May and George H.W. Bush, volunteered
to serve as the Ghost Troop chaplain, thereby earning the GT
nickname of Chaplain Chase. He was a unit member, 2003 –
2006. The GT staff considered him to be a double agent, useful
if left in place and out of the loop. The unit’s BOBCUP
Report contains most of his 2003 correspondence with the
Captain.
References:
- Micro
nuke used in Baghdad?, Truth Frequency Network,
March 27, 2011
- Private
Jessica Lynch, the media and the military, BOBCUP
Report, July 29, 2003
- Time
To Investigate Houston Is Now, The Lone Star
Iconoclast, March 5, 2008
- The
Texas Triangle: Terror and Treason, The Lone
Star Iconoclast, October 24, 2007
- Nuclear
Attack Warning Story Dismissed, Galveston
County Daily News, February 2, 2006
- Captain
Eric H. May Deserves Congressional Medal of Honor,
The Lone Star Iconoclast, 2010
- Ghost
Troop Introduction, America First Books, December
21, 2003
- Email
to Susan Elan of The Journal News, BOBCUP Report,
November 12, 2004
- Hamdan
vs. Rumsfeld:Geneva Conventions now, Nuremberg Principles
later, Al Jazeerah, July 3, 2006
- Battle
of Baghdad Cover-Up Four Years Later, The
Lone Star Iconoclast, April 2, 2007
- US
accused of using neutron bombs, Al Jazeera,
April 9, 2007
- Tillmans,
Jessica Lynch to testify on Hill, Army Times,
April 23, 2007
- Philippic
contra George W. Bush, BOBCUP Report, July 15,
2003
- Captain
Courageous Witnessed: Dr. Kelly Assassinated!,
The Lone Star Iconoclast, December 10, 2009
- Jesse
Macbeth Interview, May 28, 2006
- Updating
a War Crime Witness: Jesse Macbeth, Political Research,
June 5, 2006
- BP
7/28 Nuke Plan vs. U.S. Officers Coup, The
Lone Star Iconoclast, August 2, 2010
- Appointment
of Chase Untermeyer as Ghost Troop Chaplain,
BOBCUP Report, August 28, 2003
- BOBCUP Report
(Volumes I – IV), 2003
- Captain
Eric H. May Index, America First Books, 2003
– Present
Endnote: This interview was originally published by
Dissident Voice, on February 24, 2012, as
Combating the Disinformation, Psyops, and Cover-ups of the US
Military. It was conducted via email by Kim Petersen, co-editor
of Dissident Voice, and B. J. Sabri, an Iraqi-American antiwar
activist.
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Captain Eric H. May, a disabled veteran,
is a former U.S. Army military intelligence officer and Desert
Storm volunteer. A former NBC editorial writer, his essays have
been published worldwide, from The Wall Street Journal
to Military Intelligence Magazine. |
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