Wikileaks To Publish Remaining Afghan Documents

Albanach writes "WikiLeaks spokesman Julian Assange has been quoted by the Associated Press as stating 'the organization is preparing to release the remaining secret Afghan war documents.' According to Assange, they are halfway through processing the remaining 15,000 files as they 'comb through' the files to ensure lives are not placed at risk."

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save lives by exposing military tactics....

[madhatter256]

They are already risking the lives of our soldiers by simply posting their tactics and secrets.

"combing through" the documents to 'save lives' is bullshit and they know it. They just want to post the dirtiest, effective secrets that can have maximum damage.... which will in turn hurt our soldiers.

Re: save lives by exposing military tactics....

[Black Parrot]

No, really they don't have a right to know about the operational details of the war until it is over. That's not a new stance, it's pretty much how operational security in a theatre of war has happened for a couple thousand years.

Does that make it right?

I a state where the people supposedly run the country via elected representatives, there is a whole lot of "need to know" if the system is even going to half-ass work.

Re:save lives by exposing military tactics....

[clarkkent09]

I don't think it is wrong either. If I had a choice of US occupation and the government by the likes of Taliban and whoever is going to take over Iraq after we leave (Shiite extremists owned by Iran?) I would choose US occupation every time.

Re: save lives by exposing military tactics....

[marco.antonio.costa]

I don't think of them as assets, folks that work in intelligence/counter-intelligence do.

What you say makes complete sense, but still, if whoever calls the shots in this world thought of them as 'human' they wouldn't invade the country and occupy it for 9 years, wreaking havoc and killing people now, would they?

Re: save lives by exposing military tactics....

[cusco]

Enemies of the US? If the Taliban were enemies of the US they'd be here taking down the electrical grid, poisoning the food supply and tearing up the transportation system (all three things trivially easy in our society). Instead they're in Afghanistan, fighting an illegal occupation force. When the US finally admits defeat and leaves the Taliban will still be in Afghanistan, and they'll stay there. They want to create an Islamic society in Afghanistan, not in Nebraska. They didn't attack the Soviet Union once the Kremlin pulled out their troops, and they're not going to attack us either.

Wrong division

[SuperKendall]

What about the people who think these documents should have been released, but only after real professionals redacted names?

One Afghanistan leader is already dead over this. Wikileaks killed him, end of story. If I were that guys family I would come after Wikileaks and anyone associated with them.

There is another option

[Shivetya]

c) There are considerations to made in every war and putting peoples lives at risk for self glorification is never justification.

Re:It changes nothing

[jav1231]

As long as Americans die I guess he doesn't care. Frankly, he's a douche for doing this regardless if someone dies or not. My guess it it's just a matter of time before the U.S. and Australia work out a way to bring him to trial. At which I hope he's dealt with accordingly.

Re:My favorite feature of this round of Wikileaks.

[ooshna]

Since 9/11

Re:Good.

[pspahn]

We had no business whatever invading Iraq.

I'm still confused why people are so gung-ho that the war in Iraq was not justified.

For YEARS the UN had been attempting to perform weapons inspections that were sanctioned by the rest of the world. And for YEARS they would show up at suspected facilities, attempt to inspect them, and were forced to leave by men with guns.

Iraq was, with little doubt, producing weapons in violation of UN Resolution 687, yet there was nobody willing to back up that resolution other than members of UNSCOM.

And we said--'OK. Security Council, they're not letting us in.' Nothing. Day goes by--'Excuse me, gentlemen, we're parked out in front of the agriculture ministry. They're not letting us in. We want to do an inspection.' Silence. Nothing.

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Furthermore sacrifice is not just for battle

[bussdriver]

Sacrifice is made for many reasons and the most significant ones need not occur in battle. Being a soldier means you risk more than just death. You also risk political consequences such as being a political pawn not just a battlefield pawn and are frequently exploited. A soldier ordered to break the law must be punished either for breaking it or for disobeying orders. Its not a good situation to put oneself in; however, to some degree the volunteers are aware of this when they sign up.

In the USA's professed system, the press has just as much of a right to indirectly cause a soldiers death as a general or a bunch of politicians.

Re:My favorite feature of this round of Wikileaks.

[operagost]

Well, at least you agree Marxism is wrong.