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WikiLeaks Publishes Afghan War Secrets
A number of readers submitted word on the massive WikiLeaks release of Afghanistan war documents. "The data is provided in CSV and SQL formats, sorted by months, and also was rendered into KML mapping data." WikiLeaks provided the documents in advance to the New York Times, Der Spiegel, and the UK's Guardian — the latter also has up a video tutorial on how to read the logs. From the Times: "A six-year archive of classified military documents... offers an unvarnished, ground-level picture of the war in Afghanistan that is in many respects more grim than the official portrayal. The secret documents... are a daily diary of an American-led force often starved for resources and attention as it struggled against an insurgency that grew larger, better coordinated and more deadly each year. The New York Times, the British newspaper The Guardian, and the German magazine Der Spiegel were given access to the voluminous records several weeks ago on the condition that they not report on the material before Sunday. The documents — some 92,000 reports spanning parts of two administrations from January 2004 through December 2009 — illustrate in mosaic detail why, after the United States has spent almost $300 billion on the war in Afghanistan, the Taliban are stronger than at any time since 2001."
SO you are saying that going to the aid of our allies who were attacked and defending themselves doesn't count so that means we were the aggressors?
Simply fucking amazing how you lefties (and yes, I'm going to assume you are a lefty pussy because of your "right=wing" comment) reinterpret everything in order to support your view. Fuck, I bet you head would have exploded by now with all the facts not matching your reality if it wasn't for Fox News getting a few things screwed up so you can claim all sorts of crap about them as a release.
In Texas we shoot sons of bitches who endanger our country.
When Fascism comes to America, it will call itself Anti-Fascism, and tell you to give up your guns.
So. The standards of war are rewritten by whoever wins...
I don't disagree with you. I just find it absurd that we force our military to fight with one hand behind it's back. Our enemies aren't doing the same.
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
Huh? Your view of history is pretty narrow. Perhaps in the 20th Century the US has been involved in more wars that others (often as a defensive position, ie, WWI, WW2, Korea) but the history of mankind has been that of war for thousands and thousands of years.
This is reality, not the Federation of Planets. Get used to it.
Oh? It's okay then.
You're so dumb...
This is not a democracy. It is a republic.
The game.
Yes, but Heinlein was a twat, as the brilliant movie of Starship Troopers proved by subverting his fascistic novel.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it