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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."
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.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
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?
Send your spendthrift head of state this
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.
"Think about how stupid the average person is. Now, realise that half of them are dumber than that." - George Carlin
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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Someone flopped a steamer in the gene pool.