Marine sorry for song about killing Iraqis Wed Jun 14, 4:27 PM ET



JACKSONVILLE, N.C. - A Marine seen in an Internet video singing about killing members of an Iraqi family says the song was a joke.


Cpl. Joshua Belile, 23, apologized and said the song was not tied in any way to allegations that Marines killed 24 unarmed civilians in Haditha last year.

"It's a song that I made up and it was nothing more than something supposed to be funny, based off a catchy line of a movie," he said in Wednesday's Daily News of Jacksonville.

In the four-minute video called "Hadji Girl," a singer who appears to be a Marine tells a cheering audience about gunning down members of an Iraqi woman's family after they confront him with automatic weapons.

Maj. Shawn Haney, a Marine spokeswoman, said Wednesday the Marine Corps was looking into the matter. "The video, which was posted anonymously, is clearly inappropriate and contrary to the high standards expected of all Marines," she said in a statement.

Belile did not return a call Wednesday from The Associated Press.

He said his buddies pushed him on stage with his guitar while he was in Iraq in September and someone posted it on the Internet. It has since been removed.

Nihad Awad, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said the video should be investigated by the Pentagon and Congress.

"We welcome Cpl. Belile's apology," he said.

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The song was humor - how people that cheer when people get their heads chopped off & innocent women & children are butchered can get upset over a song is beyond me.

It's a case of "don't do as I do - do as I say".

The song was humor - how people that cheer when people get their heads chopped off & innocent women & children are butchered can get upset over a song is beyond me.

You believe all Iraq's population are guilty of these offenses? I think the vast majority are decent people and have every right to be offended. Would you be offended if a song was released that advocated the killing of Americans? Yet there are those that are in favour of the american atrocities in the Middle East.

"I grabbed her little sister and put her in front of me. As the bullets began to fly, the blood sprayed from between her eyes, and then I laughed maniacally ... I blew those little f**kers to eternity ... They should have known they were f**king with the Marines."

Yeah more blame the victim bullshit courtesy of all-forums.

The song was humor - how people that cheer when people get their heads chopped off & innocent women & children are butchered can get upset over a song is beyond me.more blanket racism courtesy of all forums...A very small minority might cheer at such an act. It is hardly representive of any group of people anywhere in the world.

I hope this asshole catches a bullet. See how funny he thinks his song is then.

For all we know, there are a great number of songs cheering the butchering of Americans or any other "infidels" ... but they've not been translated into English & presented for all of us to enjoy.

and I'd gladly denounce them if they are stupid enough to put it on the internet.

Sure you will. Right after hell thaws out

...blanket racism...I hope this asshole catches a bullet.
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I disagree.

Get real people - it was a song.

Yeah just a song. Maybe some other professions could get in on the act like...

A chef singing about how he shits in all the restraunt food.
A cop singing about how easy it is to get away with murdering niggers on the job.
A teacher singing a song about raping cute little children at nap time.
A surgeon singing about secretly selling his patients organs on the black market.
A prostitute singing about how fun it is to secretly give AIDS to thousands of chauvinistic pigs.
An imam singing about how hitler should have killed more kikes.

hilarious...and of course the people should never be reprimanded for putting such a song out..

For all we know, there are a great number of songs cheering the butchering of Americans or any other "infidels" ... but they've not been translated into English & presented for all of us to enjoy.BTW I simply love trying to excuse your moral savagery with assumptions of others moral savagery. Morality is relative only for those who have none.

qp sez: " ...Morality is relative only for those who have none. ... "

This is why you bring it up so very often, right?

Yeah just a song. Maybe some other professions could get in on the act like...

A chef singing about how he shits in all the restraunt food.
A cop singing about how easy it is to get away with murdering niggers on the job.
A teacher singing a song about raping cute little children at nap time.
A surgeon singing about secretly selling his patients organs on the black market.
A prostitute singing about how fun it is to secretly give AIDS to thousands of chauvinistic pigs.
An imam singing about how hitler should have killed more kikes.



Sure - why not. Songs are just songs.

In the four-minute video called "Hadji Girl,"
It's strange how the word "hadji" became a derogatory term. I'd imagine that being a hadji (someone who's made the pilgrimage to Mecca) is something that Muslims would be proud of.

It's strange how the word "hadji" became a derogatory term. I'd imagine that being a hadji (someone who's made the pilgrimage to Mecca) is something that Muslims would be proud of.


I dont get whats so strange about it. Thats the title of the song. And the song's lyrics include "I grabbed her little sister and put her in front of me. As the bullets began to fly, the blood sprayed from between her eyes, and then I laughed maniacally. . .I blew those little f**kers to eternity. . .They should have known they were f**king with the Marines.” In this sense of the word, Hadji is a derorgatory word.

I dont get whats so strange about it. Thats the title of the song. And the song's lyrics include "I grabbed her little sister and put her in front of me. As the bullets began to fly, the blood sprayed from between her eyes, and then I laughed maniacally. . .I blew those little f**kers to eternity. . .They should have known they were f**king with the Marines.” In this sense of the word, Hadji is a derorgatory word.
I wasn't talking about the song, I was talking about the word in general. I meant it's strange that a word which a Muslim might be proud to be called is used by non-Muslims as an insult. Kind of like if "valedictorian" or "Ocar-winner" was used as a derogatory word.

Would it, (hadji) in that sense fall into roughly the same category as the dreaded "N" word?

It's not the word but the intent of the one using it (obviously as seen with the word nigga/er.

Do you honestly think that someone who makes "juat a song" sould remain in said employment? No they would be fired immediatly because it is innapropriate, racist and makes them untrustwrothy.

If the military was honest about helping Iraqis this guy would at least be dishonorably dischaged. But then again they don't really care about the Iraqis and they need more cannon fodder as it is.

" ...they would be fired immediatly because it is innapropriate, racist and makes them untrustwrothy. ..."

What kind of drugs are you using to think this kind of shit up? Either you're not taking them regularly or you need to up the dose. Untrustworthy?? You've got to be kidding!

I think the vast majority (of Iraq's population) are decent people and have every right to be offended.


Why, you fiendish CAD!!!...........don't you know how inherantly EVIL the dusky hewed, wrong-gawd Muslims are?!?!!!?!!

How DARE you call yourself -American........!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Obviously the song was in bad taste & could be offensive, but where this argument goes off the rails is how people blow it out of proportion. It was a song - nothing more, nothing less. It's completely irrelevant.

I do not understand why so many people are constantly on the look-out for words that might offend someone. Is everyone's feeling on their sleeves?

I thought we all learned the "sticks and stones" thing in grade school.

The whole world has become a thin skinned wimpy ass, it seems.

To heck with all this politically correct crap.

Obviously the song was in bad taste & could be offensive, but where this argument goes off the rails is how people blow it out of proportion. It was a song - nothing more, nothing less. It's completely irrelevant.and you don't think that the lyrics are being used to recruit more Iraqis to take up arms against the US you are sorely mistaken. More people will die because of this idiot.
What kind of drugs are you using to think this kind of shit up? Either you're not taking them regularly or you need to up the dose. Untrustworthy?? You've got to be kidding! yes untrustworthy.

What if it was a politician who was singing about how easy it is to dupe constituants and take bribes from business?

Would he be re-elected even if it was complete fiction? Hell No.

Peace & protest songs in the '60's didn't make more war protesters.

Peace & protest songs in the '60's didn't make more war protesters.I disagree. I think alot of young people who may have been undecided about the war were swayed to oppose it by artists like Bob Dylan and performers like Country Joe MacDonald.