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Iraqi Police Getting Yelled At By U.S. Soldier watch!

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  • pr0phet491, on 06/10/2009, -43/+221I expect to be dugg down, but I fully agree with this man.
  • seventhc, on 06/10/2009, -3/+152When he said "Shut the ***** up, do not talk when I'm talking" I was hoping to hear "But I'm the translator".
  • pd2187, on 06/11/2009, -0/+90Soldier: "You guys are a bunch of pus***"

    Translator: "He says you all look very nice. He likes the new uniforms."
  • benroy, on 06/11/2009, -3/+67This is just the updated version of Mel Gibson's speech in Braveheart.
    Dude still needs a horse to get the full impact though.
  • thesaba, on 06/10/2009, -7/+71The title is slightly misleading, I think this was more of a rally then a yelling at, although the yelling did add some emphasis.
  • HouseofEl, on 06/11/2009, -3/+61Sounds like the folks on digg have never been chewed out before. This is ***** tame people.
  • Bamboozled, on 06/11/2009, -3/+60I second this agreement. You have to put yourself in this soldiers footsteps. After training a group of Iraqi police and then having them turn around and fight for or train militia... I would be pissed too.
  • RusskiGuy, on 06/11/2009, -8/+53Good job totally missing the point. His main priority is NOT to get Iraqis to like US, it is to get them to do their job effectively, so we can stop doing it. Maybe then we can live and they can go on without the "US overlord."
  • graduisic, on 06/10/2009, -11/+49There is no reason for you to be dugg down. Its not illegal or wrong to tell a group of people to man up. Those who think his speech is immoral should rethink their opinions.
  • dwninjungleland, on 06/11/2009, -13/+47Yeah, because all of us fat diggers have a right to sit here at home in front of a computer and pass judgment on a singular event that's taking place thousands of miles away with no context whatsoever.

    It's fine to be against the war and express your opinions accordingly, but if you're passing judgment on the quality of US Soldiers based on microcosmic fragments of a couple random youtube clips, and if you think that as a result you fully understand the situation, you are doing a disservice to your country and are no better than the people who got us in this mess.
  • OrangeTide, on 06/11/2009, -1/+27I think he handled the situation in a very controlled and specific way. It was a performance that is typical in the military.

    And he was referring to iraqi police officers being members of militia groups on the side. And to the laid back attitude that the other police officers have towards the people working against them.
  • OrangeTide, on 06/11/2009, -13/+39You don't have to like it, you do have to shut the ***** up and do your ***** job.
  • henrikakselsen, on 06/10/2009, -26/+49Although it's impossible for us to know the context of this clip, I find it hard to imagine that this kind of language makes an Iraqi more loyal to his US overlord.

    I Imagine myself being verbally abused by a french officer in my hometown, telling me how to run my own country. Would that make me like the french more?
  • inactive, on 06/10/2009, -8/+31It's wrong that we're over there, but it's even more wrong to leave Iraq in it's current state.
  • skyjis6, on 06/11/2009, -2/+24He is actually a US Army soldier. You really sound like you know it all PorcusWallabee. But here's the thing, he's dead on for trying to motivate them. People are dying. It's a POLICE FORCE. They cannot do the same things that civilians do. Also, great work by the interpreter =]
  • ryanhayn, on 06/11/2009, -18/+39This is one of the reasons I left the military. Too much testosterone, not enough brains. This guy doesn't realize that the way he's talking to these people will only make them angry and disrespect him. He's calling out a guy for smiling, saying that he'll kick his ass. That's the kind of leadership you have in the military.
  • Homerr, on 06/10/2009, -13/+34The US has been providing welfare for Iraqis since we got into this *****. It seems as if they will never step up. We need to start pulling out and let them face their new reality.
  • vodkataime, on 06/11/2009, -10/+29"it seems as if they will never step up" Actually if your ***** president didn't go there in the first place they wouldn't have to. Yes, dictatorships suck, but not as much as a ruined economy, a danger of being out on the streets with all the terrorist acts coupled with quite frequent acts of racism and ill treatment by at least a small portion of the US forces in the country.
  • scairborn, on 06/11/2009, -4/+23This Officer was probably pissed because some of his soldiers were recently injured or killed on his and the iraqi police force's watch and was down there to chew them out. I'm almost definite that the translator cleaned up his language, but I'm also pretty sure that they know the english curse words. At the end of the day, it was not the most professional thing this officer could do, but you could tell by the question at the end that they wanted to prove to him that they could do they're job. They wanted to repair their image. He's trying to relay to them, in a few months they're on their own and they need to get their ***** together, quit relying on us and do your job. Enough is enough.

    Like I said, probably not the most professional presentation, but I think it provided some motivation for them to band together and repair their image and start acting like a proper police force.
  • flyingsquirle, on 06/11/2009, -1/+20VERY true
  • slyzxx, on 06/11/2009, -3/+21I guess you`ve never enlisted huh ?
  • pd2187, on 06/11/2009, -2/+19We forced this current state of affairs on the Iraqi people and we need to help them out. This war was not a revolution started by Iraqis, it was started by foreigners.
  • Myztry, on 06/11/2009, -3/+18some ******* emphasis...
  • purpled1, on 06/11/2009, -2/+16I got yelled at worse than this by my high school football coach. people need to thicken their skin a bit
  • FAT_PIGGY, on 06/10/2009, -19/+32Great Video.
  • b166er, on 06/11/2009, -6/+19Same reason I left too.
  • RusskiGuy, on 06/11/2009, -1/+14"We need to start pulling out and let them face their new reality." At what point does it stop being OUR reality and become THEIR? As for welfare, the U.S. owes it to them. If you think we lost a lot of people there, look at how many Iraqis died because of the war. Of course it's their reality now, courtesy of Bush, but we have to at least finish the crap that we started and usher them into it.
  • heldlik, on 06/11/2009, -1/+13Yep, - this is what you get when your main professor at sociolinguistics and diplomacy is a USMC drill Sergeant…
  • inactive, on 06/11/2009, -2/+13In 2039 on Digg:

    American Police Getting Yelled At By Chineese Soldier.

  • avatarpalin, on 06/11/2009, -5/+16There is a back story here... If what he claims is true then I'm sorry but he is right. If the police do not want to stand up then the country will fall, and nice talking "I'm sure we can get along like nice old chaps" isn't going to cut it..

    See how the British do it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7brD0YO0PAg
  • jaytek13, on 06/11/2009, -6/+17Probably inappropriate to tell the police that their the ones who want to kill Americans, but otherwise I'm sure our Army captains talk to the American soldiers just the same, if not worse.
  • Archcoder, on 06/11/2009, -24/+35They're stronger now that you've both left.
  • flyingsquirle, on 06/11/2009, -0/+11Too soon for what...?
  • AutoTom, on 06/11/2009, -5/+15dude why would anyone digg you down? this dude is like the rambo of articulation.
  • purpled1, on 06/11/2009, -3/+13@ alg .. yea because giving them a quiet talk over hot tea would have really driven the point home...
  • purpled1, on 06/11/2009, -1/+11in their culture being called a woman or being accused of acting like one is a heavy insult. I believe the soldier realizes that.
  • PsychoPNut, on 06/11/2009, -0/+10full metal jacket
  • isfan, on 06/11/2009, -3/+13ok think of it this way, Iraq invades the US, then imposes a new government to rebuild the country, half of the US become "terrorists" and begin fighting against occupying forces, the you join occupying forces in helping fight "terrorists" and then some Iraqi soldier yells at you saying that, when all you ever wanted was stability.

    Im not against discipline in the armed forces, im all for it. But just think about what they fell like when a foreign guy is acusing them of ***** like that when it's probably been hard enough for them to even consider joining the Iraqi army, it must be so dangerous your familyto join the Iraqi army knowing full well that you're endangering the lives of your family because you may be accused of being a "traitor".
  • ryanhayn, on 06/11/2009, -3/+13Oh, I don't doubt that one bit. I was only hindering their ***** operations. Operations like test firing new missiles that they bought under contract with Raytheon, spying on China in their coastal waters, and giving submarine joy rides to two star admirals, just to name a few.
    If you like following any and every order that some overly macho high school drop out chief petty officer tells you, all under the delusion that you're helping to keep your country free (though we're already free to begin with), then more power to you. I salute you.
  • OrangeTide, on 06/11/2009, -3/+12Who "middle of the fence", it looks to me that he told them what they were doing wrong, what they should do instead and that they were a bunch of pussies for not standing up and fighting for their country. Standard military *****, but generally effective.
  • gazzigger, on 06/11/2009, -0/+9Grow a pair. This guy wins wars for a living. WTF do you do? Go complain to HR.
  • BananaGrabber, on 06/11/2009, -3/+11"A Good swift kick in the pants is what those people need. This is the reason why we are losing the fight in Iraq. These police forces and military forces are too scared of their own kind. They do not stick up for freedom."

    That is an absolutely stupid description on the youtube page.
  • HouseofEl, on 06/11/2009, -2/+10This isn't some office pep talk.
  • syriusblack, on 06/11/2009, -0/+8from what it sounds like, they where just in a situation on "the ledge" and these cops didn't do their job.

    From what Ive heard from buddies and friends of buddies, this is one of the biggest problems they are having. Nobody wants to step up and help their country.
  • Flytrap, on 06/11/2009, -0/+8We have to assume that there is a legitimate context to his tirade... We see in the clip that he later entertains questions and the discourse remains tough but becomes bidirectional, indicating that this was probably legitimate effort to address a problem that he believed necessitated the tough stance he was taking.

    Depending on the context, I certainly did not see anything that I would not expect to be a normal part of a soldiers life in a war zone, especially where the allegance of the person next to you may be uncertain. And if you are not man enough to take it, you probably should not sign up in the first place.
  • aeck, on 06/11/2009, -0/+8Yeah, even though it happened 700 years ago it's still fresh in our memory.
  • marygeralyn, on 06/11/2009, -0/+8Dugg for the translator.... How do you translate "shut the ***** up"?
  • yournightmare, on 06/11/2009, -2/+10"I think this was more of a rally then a yelling at"

    No, he was pretty much just chewing them out. It's a typical military leadership tactic--they chew you out but also rally you at the same time. The reason they rally the troops (in this case cops) in a situation like that is to keep them from getting demoralized from all the verbal ass-kicking they are receiving. It's sort of the equivalent of using Astroglide instead of just a little bit of spit to ***** them up the ass: the Astroglide makes it much easier to take. Having been on the receiving end of countless military ass chewings, I can tell you first hand that this video is a good example of how military ass chewings go down (that's if the guy chewing you out is in a good mood).
  • Astrad, on 06/11/2009, -0/+7He's talking too himself or maybe the camera. He invokes a concept of 'nation' and 'country' that doesn't apply to Iraq. Iraq was a province of the Ottoman empire then a British protectorate then a military dictatorship. There's no national mythology underlying the idea of Iraq and therefore the notion of 'fighting for your country.' Why does he think there military so totally capitulated during the invasion? Loyalties there are regional, tribal, familial, religious but not nationalistic. All his macho infused rhetoric would mean very little to them. He's asking them to potentially die for idea they don't possess.
  • flyingsquirle, on 06/11/2009, -5/+12Dugg for truth
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