Posted on 10/22/2010 3:43:13 PM PDT by Conservative Coulter Fan
In what is being described as the largest release of secret U.S. military documents ever, the whistle-blowing web site WikiLeaks has released a trove of classified reports about the war in Iraq, including a secret U.S. government tally that puts the Iraqi death toll between 109,000 and 285,000, according to news sources that received advanced copies of the documents.
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I would hope that the Pentagon and the intelligence community would remove any leadership that commits such treason.
The US Army can’t save its own records so that vets can get their disability claims verified, but some traitorous Army folks give away these same records to Wikileaks.
*sigh*
Remember the good old days when wars were fought rationally and civilian casualties were accepted as regrettable but acceptable losses?
He has major ownership in CNN/TW and Disney/Fox. Carl Icahn has taken over companies with 5% of the stock.
It is all about allowing access to the satellites in those regions. Murdoch, Bloomberg, Redstone, Immelt, Iger, et al will do whatever they want to gain access to a market of 1 + billion people with trillions in wealth.
No recourse? Just get some 3 letter agency white hat hackers to do a DDOS on WikiLeaks at a minimum. I’m sure they could do a great deal more, if allowed to by “dear Leader.”
Can anyone tell me if the wikileaks culprits have actually issued names of Iraqis helping the security forces? I have some close friends in Iraq who worked for the US and am extremely concerned for their welfare.
I tried to get some info on the wikleaks site, but it directs me to some French website (big surprise!) and then the software interface for the database is throwing some errors on my computer.
I am appalled by this action. I bet this would never happen under Bush or a conservative administration :(
I did suggest that...let the NSA’s red team take em down, but Obama’s in the White House.
From what I saw the documents don’t contain any names...but I just looked at a few out of 400,000.
Unlike the Clinton years, when many more Iraqi citizens were killed by US/UN sanctions. But then again, that was a price we were willing to pay, right Madam Allbright?
100,000 Iraqis and one blonde...
Yeah—SO WHAT???
15 million dead in WW1
50 million dead in WW2.
Let’s put this in perspective:
http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/warstat1.htm
Saddam killed 100,000 people per year.
So we cut the rate of death by 90% by invading.
This has me bummed out.
I would have hoped we would have killed many more.
Everyone associated with Wikileaks should be in prison.
But how many rapes were commited by Julian Sausage, during the Iraq war....and did he stand on the streets of Greenwich Village and proclaim, MISSION ACCOMPLISHED...
The Oil-for-Food Program, established by the United Nations in 1995 (under UN Security Council Resolution 986) and terminated in late 2003, was established with the stated intent to allow Iraq to sell oil on the world market in exchange for food, medicine, and other humanitarian needs for ordinary Iraqi citizens without allowing Iraq to boost its military capabilities.
Saddam killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqis including gassing them. The Marsh Arabs had their region destroyed by Saddam.
Stop using this UN horsesh*t. This was part of the psychological warfare to lift the sanctions and it was almost successful.
No matter what it's called now, it still IS treason.
I finally figured out how to browse through the wikileaks documents. Apparently you have to give a score for each document before you can see the next.
But what I saw is mostly routine army logs of little interest, except that they show the horrors of war. On the documents I saw, they removed specifics such as names and locations. But I am sure the original docs contain these specifics and are in untrustworthy hands. It’s a shame that such culprits can go unpunished.
I bet ya someone in the White House leaked it. Look at the timing.
How is this outfit getting these classified documents?
Is this an FOI then publishing them? I don’t get it.
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