Many people were highly outraged about the video of Marine David Motari throwing a puppy off of a cliff in Iraq. I saw the video on youtube several months ago, and needless to say it has since been removed. There are a few remnants of the video remaining such as this one:

According to this updated story he was sacked for throwing puppy off cliff. There is also a clip from CNN:

Granted Motari’s disregard and senseless killing of this puppy was upsetting, what was more outrageous for me was that no one has discussed other degrading actions by soldiers that have been shown in videos on youtube. It has been a few months since I saw the original Mortari video, but if I remember correctly he also conducted degrading/belittling acts similar towards Iraqi citizens. For an example one video where a soldier was shown bribing Iraqi citizens to chant things like “I love ham” in exchange for water; Or the one below where starving children were teased with water and food dangled from a military vehicle while these children chased it in the desert heat all while he laughed at their efforts to obtain the water:

If you view the video below you can’t help but wonder what happened to honorable conduct? What happened to moral conduct? If this is how all of our soldiers behave around the world it is no wonder that we have developed enemies as we have, and it should not be surprising that many other cultures see Americans as disgusting and without any morals.

And what about this video of soldiers bombing a man’s flock of sheep? Who is really doing the terrorizing in this video? Won’t this type of behavior instill resentment?

This behavior is a complete disgrace to our military. Regardless of whether this ‘war’ is right or wrong, should our soldiers have the right to terrorize the daily lives of these people while we occupy their land? What type of image are they creating? I mean, what happened to dignity?

The way we are addressing these acts says something about our morals in this country. Especially when we can use this type of degrading behavior for entertainment and feel no remorse about is whatsoever. What happened to humanity? I can only come to the conclusion that people feel it is justified because they are our ‘enemies’. If these types of actions are being filmed I hate to think of what is happening off camera!

Late last night I stumbled across a very interesting post on rawstory.com regarding impeachment of President Bush! From about 7-11pm ET Kucinich presented a total 39 articles of impeachment against President Bush. If you didn’t watch CSPAN last night rawstory.com offers a few minutes of what Kucinich presented. It is a shock to the system to hear Kucinich eloquently presenting every point and injustice against the American people and Constitution that so many citizens have thought and discussed amongst themselves:

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Kucinich_presents_Bush_impeachment_articles_0609.html

Many people are completely unaware of this event since it’s mum’s the word with all major media. Why is it
that possible impeachment of the President is not getting the press coverage it deserves from the mainstream media? Neither news stations, their websites, have been addressing and presenting this information to our citizens. So-called news published on the Yahoo and Google pages, or even my local paper have even slightly presented it. As Kucinich points out an exorbitant number of items have been addressed in secret by this administration, and The Media, who has been of constant assistance to that end, is still maintaining its role. The one article I did find from CBSnews.com gave an extremely brief and un-elaborated synopsis:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/06/09/politics/politico/thecrypt/main4167427.shtml

In comparing between mass media (CBS) and the independent report (rawstory.com) it more than obvious that mainstream media is downplaying if not blatantly ignoring this! They are once again proving what we already know – free journalism no longer exists! They cannot be trusted or relied on to hold any integrity and instead consistently cover up, and distract citizens from the real issues.

Those who are informed need to spread the knowledge to fellow citizens to prevent anyone from being left in the dark!

On a parallel and coincidental note President Musharraf of Paskistan is also being impeached:
http://www.nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/Politics/10-Jun-2008/Zardari-gives-go-ahead-for-impeachment

And finally I can’t help but wonder whether this more impeachment-worthy propaganda but this time regarding Iran? If you weren’t aware of these ’sanctions’ before then you should check out the next post!
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/06/10/america/11prexy.php
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080610/ap_on_re_eu/bush_europe

~Sovereign Mind~