NC Marine Says Offensive Song Wasn’t Meant to Offend Anyone

A Marine corporal who wrote a song about murdering an Iraqi family says that the song was just a joke and anybody who might be offended by the lyrics just shouldn’t listen to the song.
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Ray Ret. Marine Screw you, Marines are shot at and cursed by the rag heads now one got a little jab in and all of a sudden we're mad at him I say write more songs like that and light up all the ragheads over there! 9/28/2006
tellis 1 that is something that should have stayed with thoes marines for thier eyes only they should have known that a marines humor is for other marines and that other people would not under stand 9/18/2006
Stuart R I think everyone needs to take a step back, extracate their head from whatever dark cranny in which it is currently lodged, and realize that freedom of speach (FOS) MUST reign supreme above all. No matter how objectionable, crass, or illconsidered. Hell for that matter no matter how popular. Without FOS, all other rights are window dressing; who cares if you can associate with whomever you want, if you can't say what you want, Who cares if you have a printing press, if you can't print what you want. The Marines have been fighting and dying defending these rights for commin up on 231 years, its about time one was protected by these rights while serving.

Thats the philosophical/ flagwaving opinion. Time now for the reality check.

Your 23, your in a high stress environment with few avenues for relief and NONE for escape. As a former Marine, I can VERY easily picture/remember hanging out in the barracks or the base club (something that probably does not exisit in Iraq - least not with alcohol anyway) during some down time, telling off color jokes and stories. What are the odds these guys 'objectify' women, what are the odds they blame the Iraqis for their current situation, what are the odds they refer to Iraqis as "Towel Heads", "Camel Jockeys", and "Sand Niggers" ( though not when there are any "Dark Green" Marines around.) I bet these buggers even use bad words.

Get a life, these are not the members of the Yale debate team, just like our 'president', though unlike him they have volunteered to lay their lives on the line and defend this country and its freedoms. Since the purpose of the complaint by the Council on American-Islamic Relations does not seem to center on entering any kind of debate on ANY issue, but rather on stifling the right of one soldier to speak his mind, I say lets ignore Ibraham Hooper and his organization, until such time as they learn what freedom is all about.

Though I defend his and their right to complain, there still wrong.		 7/29/2006
michael Barrack songs are usually gross and inappropriate. But they are usually reserved for the barracks. Belile's expoitation of the song is indeed both an insult to Iraqi civilians dying in the confict and the Marines themselves, portrayed as trigger-happy morons. 7/28/2006
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