IRAQ: Video of U.S. military’s ‘motivational’ speech a hit on Internet

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A new video purporting to show a U.S. officer giving a ‘motivational speech’ to ‘lazy’ Iraqi police is an instant hit on YouTube, with nearly 300,000 views and more than 1,300 comments.

The comments are expectedly heated: Some think the U.S. officer is giving a much-needed, if quite foulmouthed, wake-up call to slackers who should be taking responsibility for their own country, and others are angered that an ‘occupying’ force is lecturing a country that it invaded on how to run things.

Warning, lots of swearing.

-- Times staff