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Wikileaks Releases U.S. Afghanistan War Files; Partners With NY Times, UK Guardian, Der Spiegel
Sunday, July 25, 2010 | Kristinn

Posted on 07/25/2010 2:51:21 PM PDT by kristinn

Read reports on the files at:

Der Spiegel

The New York Times

The Guardian

Intro by Der Spiegel:

Close to 92,000 US documents have been uncovered that shed new light on the war in Afghanistan. In an unprecedented development, close to 92,000 classified documents pertaining to the war in Afghanistan have been leaked. SPIEGEL, the New York Times and the Guardian have analyzed the raft of mostly classified documents. They expose the true scale of the Western military deployment -- and the problems beleaguering Germany's Bundeswehr in the Hindu Kush.

A total of 91,731 reports from United States military databanks relating to the war in Afghanistan are to be made publicly available on the Internet. Never before has it been possible to compare the reality on the battlefield in such a detailed manner with what the US Army propaganda machinery is propagating. WikiLeaks plans to post the documents, most of which are classified, on its website.

Britain's Guardian newspaper, the New York Times and SPIEGEL have all vetted the material and compared the data with independent reports. All three media have concluded that the documents are authentic and provide an unvarnished image of the war in Afghanistan -- from the perspective of the soldiers who are fighting it.

The reports, from troops engaged in the ongoing combat, were tersely summarized and quickly dispatched. For the most part, they originate from sergeants -- but some have been penned by the occasional lieutenant at a command post or ranking analysts with the military intelligence service.

In a statement to Der Spiegel, Obama National Security Council spokesman Ben Rhodes blamed President George W. Bush:

... It is important to note that the time period reflected in the documents is January 2004 to December 2009. The war in Afghanistan was under-resourced for many years. ... On Dec. 1, 2009, President Obama announced a new strategy and new resources for Afghanistan and Pakistan precisely because of the grave situation.


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To: kristinn
Shades of Daniel Ellsberg. This has already been done long ago. Hardly original. Treasonous? Sure. But the results will be the same. The leakers will be turned into modern day heroes of the revolution.
41 posted on 07/25/2010 5:09:40 PM PDT by ExSoldier (Democracy is 2 wolves and a lamb voting on dinner. Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote.)
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To: kristinn

After reading this quote, I have to wonder what is really going on:

“The period of time covered in these documents (January 2004-December 2009) is before the President announced his new strategy. Some of the disconcerting things reported are exactly why the President ordered a three month policy review and a change in strategy.”


43 posted on 07/25/2010 5:42:30 PM PDT by HollyB
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To: SmartInsight

>> Beyond belief! [still blaming Bush]

It’s a self-castrating process - their complaining.

The impuissant scapegoating is a vulnerability for the Left.


44 posted on 07/25/2010 5:46:50 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Your Hope has been redistributed. Here's your Change.)
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To: kristinn
Ya know, I wonder if any of these publications have any loved ones in the military.

I wonder if they might change their ways if they got a call from an Officer at some Army fort asking if they have heard from their son....after an IED attack. Or a call from another Military guy in Washington D.C. asking about your kids contact information.

I've been through it.

These people make me sick. That's okay, They made me find FR!

45 posted on 07/25/2010 6:29:14 PM PDT by MountainDad (Support your local Militia)
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To: kristinn
I was just over at wikileaks browsing through the data and came across the CIA's log of enhanced interrogation techniques (EIT) briefings. I don't know if this was available publicly before, but anyhow...For all the caterwalling Pelosi was doing about torture, and how she didn't know (like we believed a word of that), the document shows that she was briefed on 9/4/02.

http://file.wikileaks.org/file/us-cia-congress-torture-briefings-2009.pdf
46 posted on 07/25/2010 6:41:17 PM PDT by domeika
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To: kristinn

Treason!

Off with their heads!

....of course it will never happen!


47 posted on 07/25/2010 6:48:13 PM PDT by luvie (DIMs?......start packin'--you're fired!....I can see November from my house!)
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To: kristinn

I’d bet the farm the administration is in on this. But to what end? To change the subject or to set the stage for a withdrawal? (ie Getting us out of a royal mess Bush put us in.)


48 posted on 07/25/2010 6:50:14 PM PDT by Protect the Bill of Rights (.)
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To: kristinn

BTTT


49 posted on 07/25/2010 6:50:30 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar (*)
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To: Protect the Bill of Rights

I agree, there’s a reason behind it.


50 posted on 07/25/2010 6:52:06 PM PDT by HollyB
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To: kristinn

These are classified documents. Just wait until all of our medical records are in the hands of the government.


51 posted on 07/25/2010 6:52:29 PM PDT by calico_thompson
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To: kristinn

Summary executions all around.


52 posted on 07/25/2010 7:15:25 PM PDT by dtrpscout (A bad dog is better than most good people.)
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To: driftdiver

My thoughts exactly. This is fodder he needs to take control of the net. Smells like a conspiracy to me


53 posted on 07/25/2010 7:21:06 PM PDT by Bad~Rodeo (NOBAMA 2012)
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To: kristinn

We need more parents of the military in the White House.


54 posted on 07/25/2010 7:24:29 PM PDT by keats5 (Not all of us are hypnotized.)
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To: kristinn

BTTT!


55 posted on 07/25/2010 7:32:18 PM PDT by PGalt
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To: kristinn

How did they get them?


56 posted on 07/25/2010 7:41:56 PM PDT by Ladycalif ("If you don't have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one." Jesus)
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To: kristinn

The Messiah needed an excuse to control the Internet. So he has created one.


57 posted on 07/25/2010 7:42:14 PM PDT by Flint
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To: driftdiver

I suppose, then - and I’m not trying to be cute by pulling a Clinton - that we will need to define “America”.

If by “America” we mean We The People, and the traditions and philosophies that have often flowed from those who crafted our Declaration of Independence and our Constitution, then no, I do not think America is evil.

If, by extension, “America” is a term used to signify our brave and patriotic military combatants, who swore an oath, and mean to keep their oath, to that America, then I also do not think America is evil.

If, however, by “America” one is referring to the corporate Federal government and its recent and increasingly progressive/Marxist administrations, congresses and judiciary, then I think “America” is indeed evil, and that, to me, is what the disclosure of this information shows.

Think about it. Since World War Two, our military has never been allowed to fight in a declared war, nor one that we were allowed to win. The military has not been allowed any total victories, has not been allowed to truly vanquish any foe, has not been allowed to bring an enemy to the point of total, unconditional surrender.

“America,” as so defined, has used our precious military men and women as mere tools of global political or economic masters. They have not died for America, but for a global political and economic elite. We fought North Koreans, Vietnamese, Somalians, Iragis, Afghans and others - did we vanquish any of them, or obtain an unconditional surrender from any of them? Did our military, because of their sacrifices in these conflicts, in any way make our country safer, or increase our standing - economic or otherwise - in the world? Those who died have died for nothing except a quaint, naive idea that is obsolete in the halls of our government, an idea mocked for decades now by the ruling elite when they think no one is lsitening. That progressive, global elite - Dems AND Republicans - if that’s what people refer to when they say “America”, then yes - that America is truly evil.


58 posted on 07/25/2010 7:56:35 PM PDT by dagogo redux (A whiff of primitive spirits in the air, harbingers of an impending descent into the feral.)
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To: SmartInsight

more then likely this is a cover for the obama. what was in the news prior to the leak??


59 posted on 07/25/2010 8:05:44 PM PDT by IGBT (..it's the Carbon-Con. A green slime license to purge you of all your money.)
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To: SmartInsight

“How about holding Obama responsible for NOT stopping Wikileaks from releasing top secret data?”

Because the spin on the leaked data absolves The 0ne, blames Bush, and makes The )ne out to be the hero? So he probably ARRANGED for the leaks.

Now, will he stop sending $1 Billion to this Muslim nuclear country? I think that’s where we sould take this.


60 posted on 07/25/2010 8:14:08 PM PDT by DBrow
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