It's shocking footage, to a point. The real question is, why is there such outrage and fury about a puppy getting thrown off a cliff by an American soldier, and a general 'yeah, whatever' about the slaughter of humans in the same war?

All bombs are terror, but a dead puppy is just another dead puppy.

Video is here :

US Soldier Smiles, Laughs, Throws Puppy Off Cliff

The clip has already been pulled from YouTube, but the links and mirrors are burning hot at Digg, where commenters are posting personal info about the soldier responsible, and issuing numerous death and violence threats.

UPDATE : Michelle Malkin, naturally, senses something conspiratorial about the anti-puppy video :

Watch the clip closely. The puppy doesn’t move. It’s clear to me that it’s either dead or a stuffed toy. The sound effects of a dog yapping seem to have been dubbed in.

A stuffed toy? She's insane. If you pick up any puppy by the scruff of its neck, it won't move much, or at all. But you can see the puppy in the vid licking its lips.

"The sound effects of a dog yapping..." The puppy is crying, shrieking really, as it cartwheels towards the rocks.

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Malkin's wants to convince her readers that that the puppy is a dog, and the sound of a terrified animal is a sound effect.

Malkin's art of propaganda, or trying to re-spin the downright disturbing vision of a smiling soldier lobbing a live puppy off a cliff into a fraud, continues :

Disturbing whether the dog is real or fake, dead or alive? Yes. A hanging offense? No.