Soldiers decry video showing taunting of Iraqi children

[sabra]

Source: WRAL

Fayetteville, N.C. — Soldiers stationed at Fort Bragg expressed concern Friday about a video that appeared on Facebook showing two young Iraqi boys apparently being taunted by a U.S. soldier.

The 30-second clip shows the two boys standing side by side on a dusty road, and the photographer asks them if they're gay and engage in homosexual acts. The boys smile and nod, but it's unclear whether they understand English.

"Are you going to grow up to be a terrorist? Yeah! All right! Cool! Yeah, terrorists! Woo!" the photographer says.

The boys smile and give a thumbs-up signal.

"Are you going to plant IEDs?" the photographer asks. "Yeah, awesome!"

The older boy apparently realizes at this point that they are being mocked, and he holds down the younger boy's arm.

The video was posted May 14 on the Facebook page of Robert Rodriguez and titled "future gay terrorists."

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Army Staff Sgt. Veronica Jones, who is stationed at Fort Bragg, called the video a case of "stupidity and boredom" that shouldn't reflect on most military members.

Read more: http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/7647216/

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[denverbill]

1. Hearts and minds.

Belittling and demeaning children. That will make them love us.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

2. Sgt. Jones, you should tell that to those kids.

Better yet, send Rodriguez to tell them he's sorry he acted like an asshole.

[frylock]

3. makes you real proud, don't it?

Pfc. Steve Dvorak said soldiers in Iraq have a lot of down time, which sometimes can lead to problems.

lotta down time, hunh? then why the FUCK are we still there?!!

[saigon68]

4. Kind of like shooting a water buffalo

You know the creature that plows the paddy to feed the family.

Kind of like killing a shepherds sheep dog for no good reason

This is what happens when the bottom of the barrel is enlisted to fight (insert racial epithet here)heads

[Smarmie Doofus]

5. K and R. Credit to the NC TV station. Actual *journalism*.

You'd never see that story on MSM in NYC.

[Vinnie From Indy]

6. I hope all the other soldiers in this soldier's unit thank him for making them all less safe

It is hard to find the words to describe just how grotesque this behavior by this soldier is not to mention how stupid it is in regard to the safety of our troops. People the world over generally get pretty shitty when you fuck with their children.

[ShamelessHussy]

7. a case of "stupidity and boredom" that shouldn't reflect on most military members - 2 late

that's how broadcast imagery works and why corporations bombard us with their BS imagery 24/7/365

[Demit]

8. The Staff Sgt calls the VIDEO a case of stupidity & boredom?

It's the VIDEO that's at fault? The Fort Bragg soldiers expressed concern about the VIDEO?


This focus on the video implies that the soldier's actual behavior would have been just fine if only no one had seen it. We are getting more and more warped in this society.

[Decoy of Fenris]

9. "I'm bored, let's go fuck with some kids."

There's another post somewhere about a soldier who voluntarily outed herself as being gay, and she's being discharged. In the meantime, it's dipshits like this who're over there, representing America and Americans. It seems we're seeing the best and the worst of people today.

[Bigmack]

10. Not making excuses for the video...

but war is a mean business, and it makes men mean.

".... He told me how after a while over there, instead of a yellow streak, the men got a mean streak down their backs. Each day the streak got bigger, and the men became meaner."

Not my words, but the words of a letter from a mother whose son was killed in Vietnam.

We have got to stop making so many veterans.