Nearly 400,000 documents have been released by the online self-proclaimed whistle-blower site WikiLeaks. The Wikileaks data raises new concerns and military condemnation, yet WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange claims there are 15,000 more secret Afghan war documents yet to be made public. Read more about it below and see his photo and a video of Assange walking out of a CNN interview when questioned about his pending rape case.
WikiLeaks has done it again, releasing 400,000 document, classified military documents, for the public to peruse. Naturally, this document dump has garnered military condemnation from the Pentagon and raises new concerns about the Iraq war in general.
The documents allegedly reveal prisoner abuse by U.S. Troops reminiscent of the Abu Ghraib incident, you know, sophomoric hi-jinks similar to what one might find in a fraternity house. It also alleges rape and murder by Iraqi police and soldiers. The documents also suggest that helicopter’s crew fired upon insurgents after they attempted to surrender.
They also allege that Iraqi civilian deaths have been greatly under-reported. In fact, they reveal that the George Soros funded The Lancet studies grossly OVER-stated the civilian deaths in the Iraq war. It seems to be the Left contradicting itself in the propaganda arena. Of course, the main stream media has neglected to report that.
Also revealed in the documents is the American hikers held in Iran were captured in Iraq rather than Iran and that there were, indeed, WMDs in Iraq.
Of course, as with everything that comes from the left (and George Soros), there’s more to the story of the WikiLeaks document dump.
Here’s some more reading from around the internet.
The News Read Blog – Report: Obama At Occidental looked Forward To A “Social Revolution”…”A Kind Of Socialist Utopia”
Flopping Aces – Wikileaks Document Dump Proves How Moronic The Anti-Iraq War Lefties Really Were
Pundit and Pundette – Obamas have booked the entire Taj Mahal Hotel (updated)
Doug Powers – Clooney vs. Looney
Hot Air – Iran Has Been At War With Us For Years
Outside the Beltway – Interesting WMD Revelation In WikiLeaks Document Dump
Instapundit – I SAID BEFORE THAT WIKILEAKS’ JULIAN ASSANGE WAS CLEARLY A TOOL, BUT WHOSE?
The Pirate’s Cove – Understanding The “Biodiversity” Argument
Newsbusters – Imagine That: Wikileaks Docs Show There Were WMDs in Iraq
Tim Blair – Count Down
Michelle Malkin – Free the Taxpayers: Defund State-Sponsored Media
So after some reading it seems that the WikiLeaks data raises new concerns … for the Left as the 400,000 documents about the Iraq and Afghan Wars contradict previous studies they have done, especially when it comes to the numbers of civilian deaths (and WMDs in Iraq). If only the main stream media would report the truth.
Watch the video below of Julian Assange walking out of a CNN interview over rape case questions.
October 24th, 2010 at 8:53 pm
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October 24th, 2010 at 10:01 pm
Nevermind wikileaks, at least it proves Former President Bush correct with WMDs.
obamas booked the entire Taj Mahal Hotel? This is literally insane. Two jumbo jets, plus Air Force One? We are living in a backwards world. If this is true they need to be removed from the White House. This is seriously insane, and I can’t for the life of me understand what these 2 morons are thinking! There needs to be protesting outside the White House if this happens, and for a long time, a VERY LONG TIME! This cannot be forgotten if it is true.
October 24th, 2010 at 10:40 pm
ron your hallucinating. there were no wmd’s in iraq. no nukes, no bioweopons, the most they found were some old, unusable chemical munitons leaking and creaking in abandoned things we would call “dumps”. worse, apparently if true, 104,000 iraqi’s died, about half were civilians or more all for one the assassination of one saddam? I think that is atrocious. Many died because we didn’t go in with enough force despite the military establishments warnings, to keep the peace, but did it on the cheap with totally arrogant leadership in command of the pentagon and utterly irresponsibly as well. You thought when rummy said watch the “shock and awe” was cool or funny. In fact it dispatched a hundred thousand iraqi’s to their deaths. Do you American’s not have any concience at all?
October 25th, 2010 at 4:54 am
Yes, this is insane. Bush’s Administration was committed to the WMD in Iraq issue, and, had they been found, this would have been trumpeted from here to eternity.
To say that it might have been covered up somehow (which is implied, considering the above) is ludicrous.
October 25th, 2010 at 5:37 am
at least it proves Former President Bush correct with WMDs.
Hah, seriously? It’s clear from the documents that the only “WMD’s” that were found — which, by the way, were chemical weapons, not nuclear ones — were holdovers from Saddam Hussein’s arms buildup before and during Desert Storm back in the late 80’s/early 90’s. The central claim of the Bush administration — that Iraq was stockpiling WMD’s as part of an ongoing armament program — is demonstrably false.
As far as the treatment of Assange in light of these revelations, Glenn Greenwald has a great post comparing the Assange smear campaign to Nixon’s “Plumbers” who were tasked with publicly shaming Daniel Ellsberg and other people who leaked politically damaging information about the administration. The only difference is that rather than a presidential administration carrying out these campaigns, the media is now more than happy to be complicit.
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/10/24/assange
October 25th, 2010 at 5:49 am
Having a concience doesn’t mean admitting culpability for a bungled governmental war policy, it just means you have some human feelings for those hurt in this “adventure.”
October 25th, 2010 at 6:50 am
And so, according to Brian, Klo and Rhayader, the WikiLeaks document dump proves that previous reports about WMDs were lies.
BTW, my son spent 15 months in Baghdad. THERE WERE WMDS
October 25th, 2010 at 7:12 am
@Beth: Try to integrate a little subtlety into your world view sometime, it should help. For instance:
It’s true that there were (and are) WMD’s in Iraq, if you include “WMD” to mean chemical weapons.
It’s not true that Iraquis or Al Quaeda or the Taliban or whoever else was participating in a WMD stockpile or had any defined plans to deploy or otherwise use existing WMD’s that were over a decade old. In other words, the basis for invasion given by the Bush Administration was demonstrably untrue. We didn’t invade Iraq because there were occasional instances of pre-Desert Storm chemical weapons in storage.
See the difference? Subtlety is important. You evinced a similar inability to draw subtle but important distinctions in that whole “separation of church and state” Christine O’Donnell thread.
(By the way, if I met your son I’d shake his hand and thank him for all that he has done. That has nothing at all to do with the implications of the WikiLeaks information though.)
October 25th, 2010 at 8:52 am
the truth is that Saddam himself confessed to an FBI agent after a year long interogation that he had to maintain the appearance of having these weapons so that Iran and other enemies would fear him. I’ve only dropped the link here about 5 times now.
So Brian, stop tingling your leg over this.
As far as Assange goes I have no problem with disclosure but hey a$$hole, we still have thousands of troops still posted there and would of been nice till you waited after they were out of harms way.
This guy needs his a$$ handed to him.
In pieces
October 25th, 2010 at 8:58 am
we still have thousands of troops still posted there and would of been nice till you waited after they were out of harms way.
If anybody is directly harmed thanks to Assange’s work, then go ahead and hold him accountable. Until then he’s providing transparency in a situation where it is desperately needed.
By the way, it’s a well-documented fact that our international actions have led to an increase in Islamist extremism and terrorism, which has of course led to many people being hurt and killed. So yeah, if you’re looking for someone to hold accountable for dead soldiers…..
October 25th, 2010 at 9:03 am
“Having a concience doesn’t mean admitting culpability for a bungled governmental war policy, it just means you have some human feelings for those hurt in this “adventure.”
I agree Brian.
We should of let Saddam continue to gas thousands of his own people, lock up and murder thousands for no reason, gas a few million more Iranians, invade a few more countries and continue letting him violate every peace treaty agreement, every sanction.
So stop this boo hoo crap about shock n awe.
I have a youtube clip where Bush tells eveyone in Baghdad to get out of Dodge three days in advance, remember that one ?
October 25th, 2010 at 9:07 am
“By the way, it’s a well-documented fact that our international actions have led to an increase in Islamist extremism and terrorism, which has of course led to many people being hurt and killed. So yeah, if you’re looking for someone to hold accountable for dead soldiers…..”
So, theres documents proving we created additional terrorists ?
Or does anyone want to give the insurgencies enough credit assuming they saw a chance at power ?
Yeah, I guess its well documented that when innocents fight back the a$$holes get pissed. I’ll buy that
October 25th, 2010 at 9:22 am
This is maddening. How can you say OUR actions increase incidents of terrorism. They’ve been fighting us LONG before we even knew there was a war going on.
American casualties in Afghanistan have increased enormously since Obama took office. I realize that’s not ’subtle’ but its true none the less.
October 25th, 2010 at 9:25 am
So, theres documents proving we created additional terrorists ?
In short, yes.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/laurarozen/1010/Researcher_Suicide_terrorism_linked_to_military_occupation.html?showall
October 25th, 2010 at 9:29 am
American casualties in Afghanistan have increased enormously since Obama took office.
And under Obama, we’ve dramatically increased our physical presence and tactical aggressiveness in Afghanistan. It’s like you’re trying to prove my point for me. Thanks.
October 25th, 2010 at 10:01 am
I could add here that if we hadn’t been misdirecting our efforts into looking for non-existant WMDs in Iraq, we could have likely finished the job in Afghanistan years ago.
October 25th, 2010 at 10:16 am
Yeah Rhay, BFD.
So, since we started fighting back they found a reason to recruit a few more. Duh.
Besides, as Beth pointed out, these a$$hats of any radical Islamic denomination have had it in for us for centuries never mind since the conception of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Thats why Ron and his son are looked at as clueless on foreign affairs. The majority of us know its not true that our presence started all this.
Its our existence period.
Osama Bin Laden makes it abundantly clear in his letter to America that yes, our presence is a factor but that our very existence anywhere on the planet is intolerable regardless of where our dollars or boots land
October 25th, 2010 at 10:22 am
“I could add here that if we hadn’t been misdirecting our efforts into looking for non-existant WMDs in Iraq, we could have likely finished the job in Afghanistan years ago.”
Unfortunately Clinton had Osama in our crosshairs at least 3 times and did nothing after Mumbai, Trade Towers, The Cole, etc…
Instead, bombed Bosnia and some pill factory in Iraq, where he was convinced there were WMDs
October 25th, 2010 at 10:24 am
No one is saying that our presence started all this. Our presence made things worse. And our existence is intolerable to Bin Laden, not to all Muslims.
October 25th, 2010 at 10:24 am
“It’s like you’re trying to prove my point for me. Thanks.”
Actually, the upward spike in casualties began long before he sent additional troops.
Almost as soon as he was elected.
October 25th, 2010 at 10:27 am
“And our existence is intolerable to Bin Laden, not to all Muslims.”
Unfortunately its not just “Bin Laden”
Try about 10% of the worlds almost 2 billion Muslims and you’ll have a clue as to how many Muslims find us intolerable.
October 25th, 2010 at 10:31 am
No one is saying that our presence started all this. Our presence made things worse. And our existence is intolerable to Bin Laden, not to all Muslims.
Exactly, thank you. The militant freaks can be written off as such no matter what we do. But there is a huge swath of people who are willing to consider the conflict with an open mind. Those people are being driven toward radicalism by our actions, plain and simple. We’re never going to “defeat” radicalism in any of its forms, but we don’t have to feed it with stubborn and wrong-headed responses either.
Actually, the upward spike in casualties began long before he sent additional troops.
Almost as soon as he was elected.
You mean, after he was elected with escalation in Afghanistan as one of his major campaign promises? Makes sense to me.
October 25th, 2010 at 10:32 am
I’m pretty sure a lot more of them found us tolerable before we started randomly bombing the masses to pay for the crimes of a few.
October 25th, 2010 at 10:38 am
“You mean, after he was elected with escalation in Afghanistan as one of his major campaign promises? Makes sense to me.”
Only if you’re full of it.
The upward spike was in no response to any plan or initiative Obama applied because he didnt have a war plan yet, he hasnt had one untill a few weeks ago.
The only thing Obama escalated were the “left over from Bush” drone policies in Pakistan.
Where you been ? Thats been yesterdays news for almost two years now
October 25th, 2010 at 10:42 am
“I’m pretty sure a lot more of them found us tolerable before we started randomly bombing the masses to pay for the crimes of a few.”
yeah, we shouldnt of been so random. I agree.
We should of been more specific like they were with the Trade Towers and just take out every freeking Muslim Capitol city in the middle east
“Americas Fault”
All you guys who eat that sht, go fck yourselves, you make me sick to my stomach.
Seriously, I’m glad I’m not breathing the same air right now…I’d puke