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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."
we Westerners kill more children then we save.
Ha. Ha. I'd like to see some documentation for that absurd claim. Here's a fact for you: the invention of the smallpox vaccine ALONE saves more than 2 million children worldwide EVERY YEAR (that was the death toll as recently as 1967). The Smallpox vaccine has already saved more lives than all the lives lost in World War 2. Shall we move on to some other Western vaccines and medical treatments that have saved millions of lives, or can I just expect you to throw up your hands and admit you're wrong now?