"Are You Going To Grow Up To Be A Gay Terrorist? Yeah! All right! Cool!"

by
Abby Zimet

An Army specialist based in Alaska is under investigation after
posting a video on his Facebook page in which he taunts
two small, clearly uncomprehending Iraqi boys about them growing up to
be gay terrorists, with sexual details now erased. Standing on a dusty road, the kids offer cheerful
thumbs-up. Stomach-churning stuff. Our U.S. tax dollars, and much-touted
principles, at work. 

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