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WikiLeaks Releases Cache of 400,000 Iraq War Documents
Caelesto writes "Today around 21:00 GMT, WikiLeaks declared an end to their media embargo of over 400,000 Iraq War documents after Al Jazeera released their story 30 minutes ahead of schedule. These documents, which have been kept under wraps by WikiLeaks for months, may reveal tortures and murders ignored by coalition forces during the fighting and occupation in Iraq. The Pentagon maintained that releasing these documents represented a danger to US troops, but already dozens of news outlets are scrambling to report on what could be a devastating blow to the US Armed Forces' already tattered image." Reader Entropy98 points to the BBC's coverage, as well. If you care to download the collection of files, it's available as a torrent.
Well, your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries.
This is gonna get modded down as usual, but what the hell... One mitigating fact is that 100k of mostly-bad guys is better that 500k mostly-good children.
Leaving aside the question of whether your numbers are correct, the concept of killing certain people in order to save certain other people is an interesting one.
Should we, for example, be performing fatal medical experiments on 100K of "mostly-bad guys" and using the medical discoveries to save 500K "mostly-good children".
Or what about all the people dying for lack of organ transplants? What if we select some people at random (or perhaps some "bad" people from prisons - marijuana smokers and copyright violators, for example) - kill them, and carve them up for their organs. One person harvested for their organs would provide enough organs to save multiple lives.
So, using your logic (kill the few to save the many), it seems like the ethical compassionate course of action.
>>>Show some concrete proof of that.
Ron Paul was running for office in 2007. He organized the first Tea Party in the fall of 2007, and they had their first rally in December. It then grew larger and larger. I joined the party in 2008, partly to support Paul and partly to protest George Duh Bush. That was BEFORE Obama ever won the election.
As for "proof" I'm sure you know how to search wikipedia for "tea party" which includes the citations you're looking for.
Or you can just choose to believe I'm telling you the truth (I joined before Obama had won).
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