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WikiLeaks Set To Release Unpublished Iraq War Docs

Posted by Soulskill on from the round-two-about-to-begin dept.

Tootech writes with this snippet from Wired: "A massive cache of previously unpublished classified US military documents from the Iraq War is being readied for publication by WikiLeaks, a new report has confirmed. The documents constitute the 'biggest leak of military intelligence' that has ever occurred, according to Iain Overton, editor of the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, a nonprofit British organization that is working with WikiLeaks on the documents. The documents are expected to be published in several weeks. Overton, who discussed the project with Newsweek, didn't say how many documents were involved or disclose their origin, but they may be among the leaks that an imprisoned Army intelligence analyst claimed to have sent to WikiLeaks earlier this year."

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  1. Re:Of course by inviolet · · Score: 0, Troll

    When you are blowing the whistle, you got ask permission first. Because I am SURE the pentagon would happily lend a hand and help with releasing video of its soldiers slaughtering unarmed civilians complete with audio track of the soldiers enjoying the slaughter as if it is a game.

    I think that is the crux of the whole apache/reporters/wikileaks issue. Our soldiers are professionals who ought to enjoy their work. And our soldiers are most definitely humans who, being predators, naturally enjoy the hunt and the kill. But these facts are now out of vogue, and they cause dissonance in the minds of We The People. So we ask (via a million subtle implications) our soldiers to be simultaneously effective yet miserably unhappy about their work.

    Then the apache video comes out and dispels our precious delusion. Our dissonant reaction is to recoil from the whole war/occupation/"police action".

    No wonder the Pentagon wants to keep stuff like this under wraps. They KNOW that we want -- more than anything else -- to be protected from the truth of what we humans are.

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    FATMOUSE + YOU = FATMOUSE
  2. I hope there is an attack on civilians by davev2.0 · · Score: 0, Troll

    And, I hope that attack kills hundreds and can be directly linked to the leaked documents on Wikileaks.

  3. Re:This is happening because the Iraq war is unjus by davev2.0 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Please read the cease fire documents from the First Gulf War and get back to us.

  4. Re:This is happening because the Iraq war is unjus by Fantastic+Lad · · Score: 0, Troll

    Please read the cease fire documents from the First Gulf War and get back to us.

    Really? That's your rationalization? That the cease-fire terms of a previous artificially manufactured and totally mis-represented war provides justification for a second one?

    See, the problem with living in a make-believe reality is that while you can fool yourself into self-respect it doesn't change the fact that you still look and sound like a complete fool to those around you. Better to invest in objective reality.

    -FL