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 25th, 2010 at 10:49 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, I remember, back in the 40s there were churchs everywhere in the middle east as the Jews got comfy in thier new home, for about a day.
Pffft.
The 10% was globaly generic. In N. Pakistan, Indonesia and Afghanistan the numbers are in the low 40s-high 50s
October 25th, 2010 at 10:50 am
So here’s a question for you Micky. You say one in ten Muslims hates all Americans. Wouldn’t you also say that at least one in ten Americans hates all Muslims? How are their one in ten less wrong than our one in ten?
October 25th, 2010 at 10:50 am
“No one is saying that our presence started all this. ”
You seriously believe that ?
October 25th, 2010 at 10:52 am
“Wouldn’t you also say that at least one in ten Americans hates all Muslims?”
No
October 25th, 2010 at 10:59 am
February 2009: “Barack Obama, whose presidential ambitions were launched by his opposition to one war, moved Tuesday to expand the U.S. deployment in another.
In his first such action as president, Obama ordered an additional 17,000 combat troops to Afghanistan.”
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2009-02-17-afghanistan-forces_N.htm?csp=34
That was more than a few weeks ago. It was immediately after he was sworn in.
October 25th, 2010 at 11:18 am
“Obama ordered an additional 17,000 combat troops to Afghanistan.”
Which took 3 months to get there.
Nothing like announcing your arrival, gets em everytime when they least expect it, right ?
Radical Islam supported Obamas election for a reason bro
October 25th, 2010 at 11:22 am
July 2011 oughta be quite a sight.
i hope that withdrawal is part of some greater strategy. But the only grester strategy I’ve seen these idiots use is the one that announces every move we make months ahead of time while appeasing their a$$es off
October 25th, 2010 at 11:37 am
Radical Islam supported Obamas election for a reason bro
OK I’m gonna have to go ahead and ask for a source for that claim. I don’t think “Radical Islam” would be very supportive of any President. And while we’re at it, do you have any proof for this 1-in-10 percentage of America-hating radicals?
October 25th, 2010 at 11:56 am
Here ya go.
Of course, their support for him was no secret 2 years ago either. Yesterdays news man.
Hell, at his Cairo speech the Muslim brotherhhod (banned from Egypt but still in their Parliament) insisted on attending the speech, and did, and applauded him.
http://www.militantislammonitor.org/article/id/3696
October 25th, 2010 at 12:02 pm
Rhay, theres plenty of documentation proving the percentages sympathetic or loyal to radical Islam/suicide bombings etc.
The numbers have actually dropped in the last three years but are still enough even if they were 1%
Thats an awful lot of guys (more than ten million) looking to kill you and I simply because of our citizenship or religion
http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2007/09/half-of-pakistanis-approve-of-osama-bin-laden/
October 25th, 2010 at 12:47 pm
@ Rhay
By the way.
Saw some awesome Christmas trees that would of had you drooling. If it werent for them suckers I never would of maintained my sanity as I ended up stuck half the time at my moonbat moms house.
It was a trip of mixed blessings.
Granma got to spoil her grandson.
The B&B my wife and I stayed at, couple miles downslope from moms was fcking excellent.
http://leilanibedandbreakfast.com/
I got my first day off in almost 7 years, somewhere around there, and a few sunrises and sunsets from a volcano slope (middle of nowhere)in peace and stonage.
In the pic you’ll see a railing up front made of branchs.
Thats where I attained my the majority of my “peace” while I was there. The sunrises were fcking beautiful, arriving a couple hours before a huge orange moonset.
The room had Dish network but the volume was muted the entire trip. And since I had no laptop and CC didnt work I was doing my best to limit my exposure. Once at my moms it was impossible as we were subjected to Bill Maher, MSNBC, CNN, and Katy Couric.
Never should of told mom I was coming. But if she found out her grandson was there and we didnt visit I’d never hear the end of it.
In a way, I missed you guys and this place after spending half the last 4 days with Klo and his clone
October 25th, 2010 at 2:12 pm
Haha — well like you said, with family nothing is gained by keeping secret about that sort of thing, it has a way of getting out and that just sucks even more. Sounds like you had a sweet trip otherwise though, good for you.
I can only imagine how the Grade A smoke and the Grade A views combine, that sounds like paradise. Good to have ya back.
October 25th, 2010 at 2:34 pm
My feelings are no secret. But everytime I insist we dont talk politics the little fckers do it anyway.
Anyway, I still dont see how this morons display of transparency or lack of, is going to help anything right now besides make his anti American Dick a little harder.
He needs his head slapped
October 25th, 2010 at 3:00 pm
This asthenic little albino Assange is exactly the reason why rifles come with telescopic sights.
October 25th, 2010 at 8:13 pm
@Hondo: Well said. If I had the money, I’d become his worst damn nightmare.
Wonder how his obituary will read—
October 26th, 2010 at 7:08 am
Wow, implied threats of violence, very nice. You’d think he drew Muhammad or something.
Ever heard the expression “don’t shoot the messenger”? He didn’t create these documents or the underlying situations, our government did.
October 26th, 2010 at 9:33 am
Yeah Rhay, he didnt create them. Hows that relevant to him releasing documentation that holds great potential to cause backlash against everyone from innocent villagers to troops to elected officials in both Iraqi and American governments ?
So far there seems to be nothing incriminating on the part of the U.S. but definately logs instances of Iraqi military performing some acts that could reflect Iraqi incumbents or candidates at a time when they’ve already got more disarray than they need.
Honesty without sensitivity is brutality.
What hes doing might be in the name of honesty(clarity) but still, the timing is atrocious and spiteful. No doubt in my mind.
I seriously doubt that this kind of sht could ever do a thing for what he supposedly deems to be the greater good.
Once again, just because you can do something doesnt mean you should.
Not that I give a sht what these radicals think it makes it kinda hard to convince these folks were not their enemies when all it takes is one example of a rogue a$$hole soldier doing something stupid to launch contempt for all Americans home and on the field.
October 26th, 2010 at 9:42 am
Don’t you think if Bush had truly found WMD’s he would have shouted it to any and everyone. It would have validated his whole reasoning for the Iraq War. I serious doubts that the discovery of WMD’s in Iraq was hidden from the public.
October 26th, 2010 at 10:14 am
Deuce..
WMDs are not relevant.
With or without them we had every legal and justifiable reason to invade. Since he’d used them so many times before and gave inspectors the run around the prevailing wisdom was that he still had them
For decades everyone believed he had them and Saddam wanted that belief to remain in place in order to scare off us and Iran. He disclosed this rational to the only FBI agent allowed to interogate him.
October 26th, 2010 at 10:28 am
Hows that relevant to him releasing documentation that holds great potential to cause backlash against everyone from innocent villagers to troops to elected officials in both Iraqi and American governments ?
I’m going to have to see proof of such a backlash occurring thanks to Assange’s activities before I think about holding him responsible for one.
Honesty without sensitivity is brutality.
Unless it’s in response to brutality to begin with. Political sensitivity ranks pretty low on my list of priorities when there are people being tortured and killed.
October 26th, 2010 at 6:31 pm
I am currently reading a biography of J. Edgar Hoover that really gives one both the facts and the national setting of the education and rise in career and power of the man. Did you know that in WW1 the anti-German sentiment was such that they called Saurkraut, Freedom Kraut? Yes, nothing has really changed among our conservatively challenged. They made asking for higher wages among rank and file workers “seditious” and went on a real union busting campaign smearing them as communists. Its like the very same ideology is still demanding to regain complete power again of our national agenda. You apologists for a bungled war policy and the unnecessary deaths and woundings and refugees ought to just go to church and reconnect to humanity. You even fantacise we found the wmd’s when in fact we didn’t. So you disconnected from humanity and accuracy in fact. Then you want to brown shirt over the rest of us with constant spin, distortions, lies and the like and try and make us the bad guy. We are the only concience you got.