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2010-10-23 Iraq

Torture, rape, and murder in Iraq: Wikileaks

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Posted by anon1 2010-10-23 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 The Guardian said WikiLeaks is thought to have obtained the electronic archive from the "same dissident US army intelligence analyst" who leaked 90,000 logs about the war in Afghanistan this year.

Bat puckey, methinks. There were probably multiple "dissident US army intelligence analysts" floating around the Five Sided Puzzle Palace during G-Dub's tenure, but you sure as hell didn't see 400,000 pages of classified documents winding up published in every fifth-column leftist "news" rag in the Western world. I have trouble seeing how this leak and the last one could have happened without the active involvement of ~~traitorous scumbags~~ officials from the Obama administration.

I'll qualify my statement by saying that I'm just an ex-enlisted squid, not an intel type. But I know there are Burg regulars who CAN make informed comments based on their professional experience in such matters...what do you think, folks?

Posted by Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo) 2010-10-23 00:35|| 2010-10-23 00:35|| Front Page Top

#2 Most of these leaks are about Iraqis abusing & killing other Iraqis, which was the status quo before the war started. Unless the US attempts to run Iraq top to bottom, this is not within our power to 'correct.'

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2010-10-23 00:39|| 2010-10-23 00:39|| Front Page Top

#3 Wikileaks has an agenda, and will twist reality to fit that agenda. Zero cred.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2010-10-23 00:40|| 2010-10-23 00:40|| Front Page Top

#4 The "leakers" in the US military should face courts martial for treason.

Wikipedia folks should be hunted to exhaustion - go after their funding, homes, families and livelihood for aiding and abetting.

Posted by OldSpook 2010-10-23 00:53|| 2010-10-23 00:53|| Front Page Top

#5 I'm sure Al-Q had thousands of such 'incidents' reported in the hopes of another abu-graib. I wonder of any of the 'reports' happen to include the conclusions of the investigations....

Posted by CrazyFool 2010-10-23 01:13|| 2010-10-23 01:13|| Front Page Top

#6 Old Spook
Wikipedia is NOT affiliated with Wikileaks

Posted by European Conservative 2010-10-23 01:53|| 2010-10-23 01:53|| Front Page Top

#7 Extraordinary rendition was developed during the Clinton administration, years before Iraq Part II. That is foreign nationals were turned over to their foreign governments for 'questioning'. Why would anyone be surprised?

Posted by Procopius2k 2010-10-23 02:47|| 2010-10-23 02:47|| Front Page Top

#8 It's our fault. We should somehow, as soon as we arrived, magicked the Iraqis into happy little Hansels and Gretels, holding hands as they covered themselves up with leaves in the woods.*

*Completely ignoring the beginning of the tale that explained how they ended up in the woods, or the next bit which explained why they were clinging together under the leaves instead of safe and warm at home in their little beds under the eaves of the family hut.

Posted by trailing wife 2010-10-23 10:27|| 2010-10-23 10:27|| Front Page Top

#9 It's interesting that Assange chooses to release these documents right before the mid-terms. And not just any mid-terms, but mid-terms in which a number of veterans are running.

Since he's all into disclosure, I think Assange's next leak should be of his checkbook. Let's see if Bawney or the SEIU shows up.

Posted by Matt 2010-10-23 11:32|| 2010-10-23 11:32|| Front Page Top

#10 Since he's all into disclosure, I think Assange's next leak should be of his checkbook. Let's see if Bawney or the SEIU shows up.

Matt, I'd also include this Nazi collaborator and international financial criminal on your list of potential Assange sugar daddies. I have to confess I never thought of Wikileaks maybe having such a direct political connection to the midterms - but it definitely makes sense and if anything makes my original scenario even more possible.

Posted by RIcky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo) 2010-10-23 12:27|| 2010-10-23 12:27|| Front Page Top

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