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This is so totally wrong.  It seems Cpl. Belile wrote a song called ‘Hadji Girl’ about meeting a girl in Iraq and then finding out her brother and father are terrorists.  Then our good ‘friends’ at CAIR (Council for American Islamic Relations) complained and so the military commanders ordered the video taken off his website.  At this point I just consider some desk jockey with no balls has caved in to these terrorist sympathizers.  Now it gets even worse.  The USMC staff are trying to figure out a way to punish Cpl. Belile through the UCMJ.

Marine Corps officials said on Wednesday their preliminary inquiry will focus on whether Belile broke military law or rules in writing and singing a song with offensive lyrics to an audience of other troops. Another concern, they said, was maintaining “good order and discipline” in the ranks.

The Marines have called the song “clearly inappropriate.”

“I cannot say if there is a violation of the Uniform Code of Military Justice or the law of armed conflict. Lawyers have looked at it and they’re kind of scratching their heads, which is why we’re doing this preliminary inquiry,” said Lt. Col. Scott Fazekas, a U.S. Marine Corps spokesman at the Pentagon.

Maj. Shawn Haney, spokeswoman at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point in North Carolina, said the preliminary inquiry is expected to last a couple of days. The military will then decide whether to move to a more formal investigation that potentially could lead to discipline.

If the military can not prosecute this Corporal on anything else, they may decide to nail him on ‘Conduct Unbecoming’ charge which is the military’s catch-all charge.

Our soldiers can fight, now if the military brass will grow a set of balls and let men be men.  How can this video and song be any worse than what Cair supports.

BlackFive and Michelle Malkin has more.  Be sure to check out Michelle Malkin’s post.  She compares Cpl. Belile’s song with another one written earlier.

Update:

Cair reports that Corporal Belile has apologized for the video.

Belile said that he apologizes to anyone who may have been offended by the lyrics. He told the Jacksonville Daily News: “I apologize for any feelings that may have been hurt in the Muslim community. This song was written in good humor and not aimed at any party, foreign or domestic. . .I will never perform this song again, and I will remove all video and text in relation to this that I have control of.”

Now we know what the military required Cpl. Belile to do to avoid prosecution.  I don’t blame him, its not fun to go up against the military.

Turns out I am not the only one who feels this way.  Mikeduron writes:

Well, here we have it, folks. The brass at the Pentagon in collusion with CAIR. Their goal? The public humiliation of a Marine….

Tags: Heroes, Iraq, Politics, War by Chuck
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America is divided between those who want our troops out of Iraq no later than the end of the year and those who want our troops to stay until the job is complete.  There is as big a difference between these two camps as there is between Democrats and Republicans.   The House debate on whether to leave Iraq now is just a reflection of the debate in America.

The House erupted in impassioned election-year debate over the Iraq war on Thursday, Republicans defending the conflict as key to winning the global struggle against terrorism while Democrats excoriated President Bush and his policies.

“We must stand firm in our commitment to fight terrorism and the evil it inflicts throughout the world. We must renew our resolve that the actions of evildoers will not dictate American policy,” House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., said in remarks laden with references to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

The war was “a grotesque mistake,” countered the Democratic leader, Rep. Nancy Pelosi of California. “The administration continues to dig a hole. They refuse to come up and see the light,” she said. (snip)

I see this debate as a watershed event as US policy is debated.   We have a choice between to starkly different plans.  The Democrats want to cut-and-run, even though they do not call it that, leaving Iraq to their own devices.  As the Pentagon’s own battle plan correctly reveals, leaving Iraq now would make matters even worse.

The Pentagon’s 74-page battle plan for the debate says that “Iraq will become a haven for terrorists, murderers and thugs,” if the United States leaves “before the job is done.”

I say lets debate the issue.  Lets put these cut-and-run Democrats on record for wanting to leave Iraq before the job is completed.  You can be sure the issue of Iraq will be a central issue in the next two elections.

I have to ask myself, why are these politicians so concerned about the issue of Iraq?  Are they that concerned about our troops?  And the answer is no.  For many of the Dems, along with their delusioned minions, the Iraqi war is an issue of convenience.  They want their power back and believe their anti-war rhetoric will win them votes.  In reality, their anti-war rhetoric is killing troops.  If they were that concerned about our troops they would shut up, they would stop encouraging the terrorists, they would unite in helping us win this war and then help defeat those who supported the war in the first place.  That is the way politics is supposed to work.  For now, the Democratic Party has dusted off Jane Fonda’s playbook and following her example.  The only thing Howard Dean’s party has not done is to be seen hugging our enemies.  I guess that is next.

How else could you explain John Murtha’s continual attacks on our soldiers?  I have received several comments from those on the left whose attitudes mirror those of Murtha.  They all started off calling the Marines from Haditha murderers, but their comments have now encompassed all of our military.

How is it that a convicted murderer on death row is given a wider presumption of innocence than our soldiers?  Remember Gary Graham, who killed six people and became a world wide celebrity when Hollywood actor Danny Glover tried to have the courts overturn the conviction.  This was a case that was investigated thoroughly and was appealed to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, the Texas Supreme Court, and the US Supreme Court.  This was a man who was convicted by a jury where several witness testified both for and against him.  Millions was raised in for defense.  And even when convicted and sentenced to die for his crimes, he receives more support from the left than our soldiers do today.  That is truly a shame.  This should trouble the left, but it doesn’t.

What the left has done, in attacking these soldiers in Haditha and the rest of our military, has been to taint our veterans as well.  Most veterans are proud of their service to our country.  Our Marines in Iraq and Afghanistan serve in harm’s way on a daily basis.  The left should at least acknowledge who is protecting their freedoms.  This crap about supporting our troops, but not the war is total nonsense.  And every time someone like Murtha or Kerry or Reid, or someone else on the left goes in front of the television cameras to denounce our troops as murderers, the story is picked up by our enemies.  The story gives them renewed strength to continue fighting, because they think that if they hold on a little bit longer, the left will force the US to cut-and-run.  This kind of talk emboldens the terrorists and kills even more American soldiers.

So I say bring on the vote in the House of whether or not to leave Iraq.  Let’s get the John Murtha crowd to record their votes on leaving Iraq in shambles.  Lets record their vote for cutting-and-running.  And lets not forget how they have soiled the good reputations of our good fighting men and women.  I will certainly not forget.

Tags: Democrats, Heroes, Moonbats, Iraq, Politics, War by Chuck
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