Great news as Cpl. Joshua Belile will not face any punishment for the “Hadji Girl” video: US Marine exonerated for song about killing Iraqis.

But notice, as usual, the insanely biased Reuters opening line:

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.

Extra! Marines Using Obscenities! Stop the presses!

And Reuters is still lying about the storyline of the song by repeating CAIR’s deceptive talking points, even now.

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 her family. [In the song, the Iraqi woman lures the Marine into an ambush. —ed.]

“I grabbed her little sister and put her in front of me. As the bullets began to fly, the blood sprayed from between her eyes, and then I laughed maniacally,” he sang. Laughing, clapping and cheers can be heard in the background. [In the song, the ‘little sister’ is killed by her own father and brother. —ed.]

“The preliminary inquiry has been concluded. No punitive action will be taken against Corporal Belile. And there will be no further investigation,” said Maj. Shawn Haney, a spokeswoman at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point in North Carolina.

Haney said the inquiry ruled out any violations of the Uniform Code of Military Justice.

Another Marine Corps official, who asked not to be named because details of the inquiry are private, said poor taste, poor judgment and poor timing, not to mention offensive lyrics, do not necessarily amount to criminal conduct.

But they will, if the Council on American Islamic Relations gets their way.

UPDATE at 6/27/06 12:20:49 pm:

Michelle Malkin has Joshua Belile’s statement.