The Council on American-Islamic Relations - 'Marines' Cheer Song About Killing Iraqi Civilians
I got this via Lenin: a four-minute video, posted on YouTube and later deleted but archived by CAIR (see link at top). You'd think they'd have learned not to brag like this after the "Lcpl Boudreaux" affair of 2004, but perhaps they joined the military because they weren't good at anything else ... Perhaps this explains why they were sent to Iraq in the first place: because if they're in Iraq, they're not in America.
Nah, they won't learn. They don't see anything wrong with this, and really, neither does anyone else in the govt., except when someone complains. The righties are having a ball with this, "CAIR whines..." "playing the victims..." etc. "It's fictional! It's okay!"
Ugh...
Perhaps this explains why they were sent to Iraq in the first place: because if they're in Iraq, they're not in America.
Reminds me of Hideyoshi's invasion of Korea!
Toyotomi Hideyoshi united Japan in the sixteenth century. His troops were mostly "Ashigaru" - foot soldiers recruited from the peasant class and armed with arquebuses, unlike the far more famous "Samurai" aristocratic cavalrymen.
The Ashigaru, having none of the tradition of restraint associated with the Samurai, were as atrocity-prone as the World War II-era Imperial Japanese Army - Hideyoshi ordered the invasion of Korea largely so that they wouldn't be victimizing fellow Japanese any more. When the invasion failed, the Japanese government had to forcibly put them down.
When history repeated itself in the 1930s, the Japanese government was too intimidated to put down the neo-Ashigaru of the Imperial Japanese Army, and it was ultimately left to the American to deal with them...
Whats even more telling is that septic neocon gutter blogs were posting the video and praising it. Apparently killing children is entertainment to them.
Indigo Jo, I would like to first say that you were correct in your accurate assessment of the "hadji girl" song. It is uncalled for and extremely untimely. Secondly, I would have to say that the comment 'but perhaps they joined the military because they weren't good at anything else' was a simply ignorant statement on your part. I do not know what you do for a living (other than post blogs hiding behind a computer) and I certainly do not choose to degrade your type of 'work'; if that is what it is. I can tell you that what men and women go through in combat is something you may never see or experience. The confusion, the death, the shock and the experience itself; no matter how small, is something that is left within them for the remainder of their lives. Split second decisions that they may or may not regret occur each moment of the fight for their lives and their comrade’s lives. I can tell you that they ARE good enough and if they were not, then we would all speak a language other than English and may not even enjoy the freedoms we do today. I don't tend to hide to the right, but I do know what a gunfighter goes through when their buddies are dying in a land far from America (on numerous occasions) and then gets to run across both a Marine singing a song joking about killing innocent people and then to a person who makes a comment degrading their very being. You have that right because of those men and women. You don't have to believe the cause, respect the politicians or even vote. But I do ask that in the future you don't throw insults at what is hands-down the greatest fighting (and peace-keeping) machine in the world. Those few service-members who choose to go down the wrong road do not represent the entire collective. Much like the extremely small percentage of Muslims that choose to fight for what they believe is their religious war at its peak; they do not represent the entire Muslim community viewpoint. I think my favorite T-Shirt of all time was from Woodstock. It was a teenage boy in a black tee that said "Open your mind and Shut your mouth." Maybe it's time for everyone....
Indigo Jo: I have always had an aversion to people who feel the need to make ridiculous comments regarding topics they know nothing about. Have you ever been in the military? Have you ever known what it is like to leave your family for months or even years? Do you know what it is like to wake up not knowing if you will live through the day? I doubt that you do, otherwise you would not degrade those people who have had those experiences. As the mother of an outstanding Marine I can tell you that I live in constant fear of losing my son, but if I ever do I will be proud to say that he lived his life in the most noble and brave way possible. He risks his life so that idiots like you can say whatever they want without fear of retribution. Perhaps you should be the one who is 'not in America'.
To Amelia & David Mansfield: I'm not in America, as the domain name suggests. Actually I didn't mean to suggest that all soldiers are like this, but a fair number of men are wont to behave like total jerks when in the company of other men, in the military or otherwise. By the way, the last time we fought a war that was actually about protecting our freedom was World War II and just about everyone contributed to that in some way or another (both of my grandparents fought).