"In the wake of strong US government statements condemning WikiLeaks' recent publishing of 77,000 Afghan War documents, the secret-spilling site has posted a mysterious encrypted file labeled 'insurance.'"
The Afghan War Diary, an extraordinary compendium of over 91,000 reports covering the war in Afghanistan from 2004 to 2010, 07/25/10. (photo: WikiLeaks.org)
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"Gates said the leak was "potentially severe and dangerous for our troops, our allies and our Afghan partners" and said that "tactics, techniques and procedures will become known to our adversaries" as a result."
Curious. I would have thought that "our allies" included "our Afghan partners."
The Truth shall set us free.
We must stop being mushrooms (kept in the dark and fed sh..t).
All those keepers of government secrets from the past 60 years should start revealing it now, before they leave this world.
Free your souls from the burden of hidden secrets.
Who was really responsible for the assassinations of Dr Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Fred Hampton, John and Robert Kennedy, Patrice Lumumba of the Congo, General Omar Torrijos of Panama, Salvador Allende of Chile and all the other so-called third world countries' leaders who died mysteriously.
Sun Tzu would have agreed. 2300 years ago, he noted that "in a shooting war both sides begin to lose." He also says the goal of war is to "take the city without fire a shot."
But its clear Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld either never read the literary canon on war, or never intended to win these wars at all. Perhaps they just wanted to sink the US military into an endless war scenario so they could rape the US budget and turn the world into a seller's playground and marketplace for weapons of war.
Obama is a fool for buying into this madness. The Republican base may pony up for their candidates for war, but the Democratic base will abandon the Democrats for doing the same.
Personally, I can understand how they feel about managing complicated situations and how well meaning citizen interlopers may be worrisome, so I wouldn't mind accepting the realities of big, serious government... if only they weren't screwing things up so badly. And for many years they've been really screwing things up!
As far as engaging the American public, they have sent our children on five, six, eight, or more tours. During the Vietnam War it was one tour and you were out.
Also, they use mercenaries and pay them very well using our tax dollars.
William
None of those goals are worth two cents and a skinned knee. Between their refusal to address the crisis of joblessness like Democrats (not Republicans) and their commitment to the war machine, these so-called 'Democrats' have utterly blown their mandate.
Thank god for Assange. If Afghanistan is Obama's Vietnam, then Pakistan is his Cambodia and Assange is our generation's Daniel Ellsberg. Someone has to stop this insanity. My hatred for right-wing, sell-out Democrats grows by the minute.
RE: "Maybe the file is called "insurance" because the maker of the file needed it to protect himself."
Of course he needs to protect himself.
He is going up against "the machine"; the U.S. Government is his opponent, and we all know by now, the U.S. Government doesn't "play by the rules" and doesn't respect the Geneva Conventions.
Google "Quadri-Track ZCT"
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