{"id":2807,"date":"2006-06-14T07:10:32","date_gmt":"2006-06-14T14:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/14\/streaming-atrocities\/"},"modified":"2006-06-14T08:16:28","modified_gmt":"2006-06-14T15:16:28","slug":"streaming-atrocities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/14\/streaming-atrocities\/","title":{"rendered":"Streaming Atrocities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A four-minute video of a Marine singing a &#8220;song&#8221; about killing an iraqi family may be a hit with the War Party, but it is provoking widespread disgust &#8212; and an investigation. AP <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20060613\/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe\/iraq_marine_video_2\">reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The singer is shown playing a guitar and singing about meeting an Iraqi woman and then being confronted by her brother and father, who have guns. The lyrics describe the Marine pulling the woman&#8217;s little sister in front of him and watching blood spray from her head. He then sings about blowing the father and brother &#8216;to eternity.'&#8221; <\/em><\/p>\n<p>The video was originally posted on youtube.com, but was taken down: you can see it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cair.com\/default.asp?Page=articleView&#038;id=2185&#038;theType=NR\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is one aspect of waging a war of aggression that is often overlooked: it not only corrupts our political process, and brings us to the edge of bankruptcy, it also corrupts our souls.<\/p>\n<p>Keeping this in mind, the news that the rest of the world considers us more of a threat to world peace than Iran hardly comes as a surprise. The <em>International Herald Tribune <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/bin\/print_ipub.php?file=\/articles\/2006\/06\/13\/news\/pew1.php\">informs us<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;As<\/em> <em>the war in Iraq continues for a fourth year, the global image of America has slipped further, even among publics in countries closely allied with the United States, a new global opinion poll has found&#8230;. All groups except Americans and Germans saw the U.S. presence in Iraq as posing a greater threat to world peace than the threat posed by Iran, which is pursuing a uranium enrichment program that the United States and other Western countries view as a prelude to developing its own nuclear weapons. Russians held that view by a 2-to-1 margin, and even the British did so by a narrow margin.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Why do they hate us? Just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cair.com\/video\/marine-hadji-girl.wmv\">listen to this jerk<\/a>, and you&#8217;ll know the answer to that question&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A four-minute video of a Marine singing a &#8220;song&#8221; about killing an iraqi family may be a hit with the War Party, but it is provoking widespread disgust &#8212; and an investigation. AP reports: &#8220;The singer is shown playing a guitar and singing about meeting an Iraqi woman and then being confronted by her brother [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2807"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}