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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military will not punish a Marine who performed an obscenity-laced song to a laughing and cheering crowd of fellow troops in Iraq making light of killing Iraqis, the Marine Corps said on Tuesday. The Marines two weeks ago launched a preliminary inquiry into whether Cpl. Joshua Belile, who returned home from Iraq in March, violated military law or rules in singing the song, a four-minute video of which was posted on the Internet. In the song, titled "hadji girl," Belile sang to fellow troops at a base in Iraq about encountering an Iraqi woman and...

Michelle Malkin is pointing our attention today to a Marine in need of certain help that we can bring to him. (h/t MuscleHead Revolution) Watch her VENT for today by clicking here. Contact the Marines at the address she gives at the end of the video. And forward the name of a good lawyer. This Marine is getting raked, and needs our help!

Be advised: Strong language. Hadji Girl I was out in the sands of Iraq, and we were under attack, and well, I didn’t know where to go. Then the first thing that I could see, Was everybody’s favorite Burger King, So I threw open the door and I hit the floor. Then suddenly to my surprise, I looked up and I saw her eyes, and I knew it was love at first site. And she said, “Durka Durka Mohammed Jihad”, “Sherpa, Sherpa, Bakala”, Hadji girl, I can’t understand what you say. And she said, “Durka Durka Mohammed Jihad”, Sherpa, Sherpa,...

I saw Chris Matthews say something the other night... that we might be the 'bad guys'. So I reached for the closest 'bad guys' clip I could find (guess what? I didn't have to reach far), and merged his statement with old school Nirvana and some sickos. The last minute or so is left black so you can absorb what you've seen. Enjoy. Or not. I don't. I caution you: this is not pretty (but I urge you to watch): http://youtube.com/watch?v=vJ4-5viZxO0 Chris Matthews: "We can't win, is a good reason"

NC Marine: 'I apologize for any feelings that may have been hurt in the Muslim community' by OfficialWire NewsDesk WASHINGTON, D.C. -- (OfficialWire) -- 06/14/06 -- The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today welcomed an apology by a U.S. Marine who posted a song on the Internet that the group, and Pentagon officials, termed "insensitive" and "inappropriate." Cpl. Joshua Belile, who lives in North Carolina and recently returned from duty in Iraq, says the "Hadji Girl" video describing an encounter with an Iraqi woman posted on youtube.com in March was just a "joke." The song's lyrics included: "I grabbed her...

Mirror site located after Drudge source was yanked. http://www.cair.com/video/marine-hadji-girl.wmv

Cpl. Joshua Belile thought up the words to “Hadji Girl” in September while drinking coffee with buddies in Iraq. It was just a joke, Belile says, a play on lines from a movie. His fellow Marines seemed to enjoy the song, so they got Belile up on a stage with his guitar. Someone taped his performance, and now Belile stands in the center of a growing controversy, one that threatens to drag the New River Air Station Marine and his blackly humorous song into the debate about the alleged incident at Haditha and the war in Iraq.