Unsurprisingly, I like looking at stuff on YouTube. Also unsurprisingly, that does NOT include stuff like this:

The wildly popular video-sharing Web site YouTube.com has dozens of videos purporting to show individual American soldiers being killed in Iraq, in what amounts to snuff films, overlaid with music and insurgent slogans.

Some of the videos, including ones of American soldiers purportedly being picked off by snipers or being blown up by improvised explosive devices, have been viewed tens of thousands of times each in the past few months. Some are posted in YouTube’s “news and blogs” category, but others are listed under “entertainment” and even “comedy.”

Their presence on YouTube shows that insurgent propaganda — including genuine footage — already available on more obscure Web sites has seeped in the mainstream of American popular culture, said Eben Kaplan, assistant editor of CFR.org, the Web site of the Council on Foreign Relations, a nonpartisan think tank headquartered in New York.

Sick, yes. No shock though. Propaganda is worthless unless it reaches the masses, and the US media rigorously sanitizes all war coverage. So, knowing that many people use 3rd parties for entertainment purposes, they stick those videos onto one and falsely categorize it, & unsuspecting people end up watching out of curiousity. It’s the Train Wreck theory of spectatorship, except deliberate.
That said, look what we do:

The site also holds numerous equally violent videos that claim to show U.S. soldiers killing people in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The statement doesn’t say whether they mean they’re pro-US-military videos of insurgents or foreign fighters being killed or video of civilians being murdered, but I’ve seen some of the former. Personally, in that case I don’t see the real moral difference. Before anyone starts with angry letters, I am NOT — NOT!!! — saying that it is somehow good or morally equivalent in and of itself for US soldiers to be killed! I am saying only that, whether intentionally or not, our videos serve the same purpose as theirs, as internal support & outward intimidation. You can believe that without becoming Fred Phelps, people…

This is all beside the point though. People that cheer while people are being killed, regardless of reason, are fucking sick. As for the videos being on YouTube, blame the mainstream media. Perhaps if it were more common to see the horrors of war then people would take it more seriously, eh?