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"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)
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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+37 # Guest 2010-08-06 11:41
Afghanistan and Iraq are not our countries and did not attack us. We murdered maybe more then a million Iraqis and god knows how many men, women and children. -What if these were our children in our country? What would we do? How would we feel? We attacked Iraq for their oil and for profit - the people and our troops were used for corporate profit. This agenda is immoral and horrible! Julian would agree. He wants the world to know what we have done and are doing because our military, using our tax dollars wants to hide everything from us and lie to us. If we don't know the truth how can we understand and take responsibility for the atrocities that are being committed in our names and what our tax dollars are really being used for as we go broke.
 
 
+12 # Guest 2010-08-06 14:10
Absolutely the truth! I wonder if the TRUTH about the 911 "attack" will ever be illuminated as well? If the rest of the world found out it was an "inside job", this country really would be in serious trouble. I am guessing that is one theory that will be taken to the grave.....
 
 
+3 # Guest 2010-08-06 16:07
Overall I don't disagree. We didn't personally murder the million Iraqis. We did create the chaos that has resulted in the deaths. My understanding is that for all of the bad things Saddam represented, he was at least able to keep the peace for the most part.
 
 
+5 # Guest 2010-08-06 12:16
Quote from this article:

"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."
 
 
+21 # Guest 2010-08-06 13:18
The people with blood (of some young soldier) on their hands are not Wikileaks folks, but the fools who sent the blood over there.
 
 
+14 # Guest 2010-08-06 13:24
The more we know, the freer we will become.

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.
 
 
+1 # Guest 2010-08-09 02:29
For the answer to those questions, please read Russ Baker's Family of Secrets (The Bush Dynasty, The Powerful Forces That Put It In The White House, and What Their Influence Means For America).
 
 
+2 # Guest 2010-08-10 06:07
YES!!! The Bush family, dating back to Prescott Bush, may be the most evil and dangerous family in American history. They should all be indicted!
 
 
+2 # Guest 2010-08-06 13:49
Maybe the file is called "insurance" because the maker of the file needed it to protect himself.
 
 
+3 # Guest 2010-08-06 14:14
War is considered dangerous to kids and other living things. It should not be indulged in since all participants are instant losers.
 
 
+3 # Guest 2010-08-07 05:16
Quoting
War is considered dangerous to kids and other living things. It should not be indulged in since all participants are instant losers.


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.
 
 
+5 # bobpomeroy 2010-08-06 14:27
By making this claim, the pentagon is admitting that it was defeated by a smooth-cheeked baby boy.
 
 
+3 # StPete 2010-08-06 14:52
@Varda Burns, et al: you said, "...If we don't know the truth how can we understand and take responsibility..." I think that's the real point of it all. The decision-makers for these wars aren't and never were interested in collaborating with the American people, even on decisions of massive life or death. They don't think it makes any sense to try. To them it's like giving a teen-ager the keys to the family business. That's what they think about the American public, and in the end, that's what's going to bring them down. We didn't go to the right schools, we don't have their training and experience, we didn't help make the plans, we aren't going to get in their way.

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!
 
 
+8 # Guest 2010-08-06 15:47
These are illegal wars fueled by our tax dollars. We were and are being lied to as we go broke. Should the Germans have known what Hitler was doing? When we protested against Vietnam, another useless war for profit that took the lives of 60,000 Americans, we knew the truth and it was unacceptable to us and we marched and marched and protested for a long time. Of course there was a draft so us middle class kids knew it was wrong. We grew up on Pete Seeger and IF I HAD A HAMMER. But they learned so now only poor kids go to war and we pay for the biggest private army in the world so the kids don't really feel it -And now many of those there are committing suicide but the army says its their problem - guess they don't bother with psychological testing. So if you are wondering whose running up the bill on kids its these pompous crazies running things behind the scenes. Watch IRAQ FOR SALE THE WAR PROFITEERS and educate yourself. It's time now for us to know and knowing is half the battle :)
 
 
+7 # Guest 2010-08-06 16:32
Great idea...we should all have such insurance....at least the truth is protected and so is the whistle-blower. Time to start putting people on trial who were in power and still are.
 
 
+1 # Guest 2010-08-10 07:56
You are correct, but according to the UNWRITTEN RULES of the GAME for INSIDERS and CLUB MEMBERS ONLY, Obama and Holder must wait until the Statute of Limitations expires. Their idea of professional courtesey. I call it honor amoung thieves. The term *crooked polition* is an oxymoron.
 
 
+9 # Guest 2010-08-06 16:46
I am also a lifelong pacifist. Someday humanity will learn to settle differences without fighting. We must be super immature - like two children on a playground: "That's my ball!" "No, my ball!" [fist fight ensues]

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.
 
 
0 # Guest 2010-08-07 01:41
With over 100,000 U.S. troops and assorted civilians in Afghanistan, how come that nation is able to export billions of dollars of illegal drugs that are destroying Russia? In such a mountainous country there cannot be but a few roads leading to the north, Can someone explain why Afghan farmers are allowed to enrich themselves at the expense of their neighbors?

William
 
 
+2 # Guest 2010-08-07 05:06
I am so disgusted with Obama's warmongering and covert warmongering, in Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, Somalia, Pakistan and his saber rattling in South China Sea. Every death is a useless death, every dollar wasted. For what? To save the American Empire? To preserve our hegemony over the world? To make the world safe for global capital?

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.
 
 
0 # Guest 2010-08-07 07:21
I applaud the moral courage of Julian Assange, though he will probably lose his freedom and/or die for it. If the hidden, appalling truths about these ongoing, profit-driven crimes against humanity in Iraq and Afghanistan further endanger "our troops"--which they probably do--there is a simple solution: bring them all home! As Hamlet once said, "Foul deeds will rise/Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes."
 
 
+4 # Guest 2010-08-07 09:08
Anyone see the connection, or lack thereof, between going after Bradley Manning and Julian Assange, and not going after those who outed Valerie Plame?
 
 
+1 # Guest 2010-08-07 09:42
William, the drugs flow out of Afghanistan freely because the U.S. has been in bed with the Afghani drug lords from day one. We dubbed it the "Northern Alliance." What organization is the largest drug running operation in the world? The CIA. There is a VERY long bibliography on CIA drug running that includes research not just by journalists, but academicians, and former members of various U.S. intelligence agencies to include the CIA and the DEA. What better way to destroy a nation we consider an enemy. But Afghan drugs flow not just to Russia, but to the U.S. too. Look at the CIA's program of providing drugs to South Central Los Angeles drug games for example.
 
 
0 # Guest 2010-08-07 14:50
@nori
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.
 
 
0 # Guest 2010-08-08 14:15
The FBI uses polygraphs to eliminate suspects.

Google "Quadri-Track ZCT"
 
 
0 # Guest 2010-08-11 02:56
can we please send Bush43 off to prison NOW!
 

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