Comments on: UPDATED: Warbot Wants to Kill WikiLeaker

By: Myron Pauli

Myron Pauli — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 22:57:48 +0000

James H – Exactly correct. Look, I am working on trying to keep the troops that our idiotic politicians endangered coming back intact. But the Bushes and Obamas cause more damage than the leakers.

By: james huggins

james huggins — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 12:40:34 +0000

Even if we disagree with policy and practice on how the war is being waged it doesn’t mean we should condone actions that endanger the troops more than they are normally. As far as execution is concerned I can think of many in Washington who need shooting first.

[You are hilarious. Yes, let’s get our priories right.]

By: Van Wijk

Van Wijk — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 05:06:59 +0000

I am skeptical whether the Taliban rely on sorting out 92,000 pages of documents of American myopia and fantasy rather than on just local information (extracted often with brute force).

Myron read my mind here. Last I checked, the Afghans weren’t big on “innocent until proven guilty.” More likely they simply slash the throats of any they suspect of having ties to the U.S. military, and leave the rest in the hands of Allah.

By: Robert Glisson

Robert Glisson — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 00:28:40 +0000

I’ve not heard every news story out there but from what have seen, no one really knows what was leaked. As to Manning needing to hang, he hasn’t had a trial and the feds are good at railroading so I’ll hold off on judging until some real evidence shows itself. But, this statement in Newsweek that some people have been given a week to leave town just don’t wash. The normal Taliban MO is “Knock down the door, chop-chop, go home to supper. I think the reporters saw the stack of reports, wrote a quick yellow sheet and went to Burger King. One of these days, someone will roll up their sleeves and dig in, only then will we get the real story.

By: Steve Hogan

Steve Hogan — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 00:15:23 +0000

From summaries I’ve read about the leaked documents, there is no information about future troop movements, changing strategies (has the US military ever had one in Afghanistan?) or tactics, or communication codes.

As an aside, the Pentagon makes it a point to publicize weeks in advance when and where new operations will take place! Imagine Eisenhower announcing in advance his D-Day plans for the Germans. Is the Pentagon trying to kill its own troops?

In other words, the documents indicate the failure of the occupation and the daily war crimes being committed against a nation and its people that were not, are not, and never will be a threat to our national security.

We need to withdraw militarily from the Middle East forthwith. If the Wikileaks documents help in this regard, we should welcome this and all other potential whistleblowers.

By: Barbara Grant

Barbara Grant — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 22:02:49 +0000

Myron, I am with you on Woodrow Wilson. His legacy was, and continues to be, absolutely poisonous. While I sympathize with the critique of Lincoln on the part of Di Lorenzo, I believe that Wilson is the primary American President who needs to be deconstructed. We are where we are today in large part because of widespread acceptance of the Wilsonian doctrine of interventionism.

By: John Danforth

John Danforth — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 21:01:32 +0000

Try as I did, I could not find anything in those linked articles explicitly stating that the guy the Taliban killed had been named in the leaked documents. Basically, the reader is left to draw the conclusion that the timing proves the link. It doesn’t.

And perhaps the Afghanis don’t read history. If they did, they’d know better than to trust the government of the U.S., with their history of betrayal of anyone they try to ‘help’. Look what happened to the Kurds and South Vietnamese for two examples that spring readily to mind.

By: Myron Pauli

Myron Pauli — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 19:05:03 +0000

Manning and others failed to redact important information and are certainly subject to prosecution. By violating rules, they certainly are not entitled to maintain positions of trust.

I am skeptical whether the Taliban rely on sorting out 92,000 pages of documents of American myopia and fantasy rather than on just local information (extracted often with brute force).

Nevertheless, why do people harp on “death to Manning” while the world honors warmongers like Woodrow Wilson and Barack Obama with the NOBEL PEACE PRIZE??

Another interesting perspective on the futility of American military power in Afghanistan:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/06/AR2010080602658.html

By: George Pal

George Pal — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 15:46:39 +0000

The ‘reckless complex’ willfully refuse to admit the obvious; the ‘cause and effect’ at work in all our policies, foreign and domestic. For that, the resultant widespread hypocrisy over the WikiLeaks/Manning affair is both laughable and disgusting. Nevertheless, Manning, if found guilty of what has been so far reported, should hang.

One may take on the Ten Commandments, blithely violating each in reverse order, each succeeding violation more egregious than the previous. At some point all but the hardest heart will come to the realization they’d gone far enough. Better the ‘enablers’ and useful idiots participating in the scuttling of our nation should have such a line in the sand than no line at all.

Even whores have limits.

By: MeMyselfI

MeMyselfI — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 14:23:37 +0000

“Late last week, just four days after the documents were published, death threats began arriving at the homes of key tribal elders in southern Afghanistan. And over the weekend one tribal elder, Khalifa Abdullah, who the Taliban believed had been in close contact with the Americans, was taken from his home in Monar village, in Kandahar province’s embattled Arghandab district, and executed by insurgent gunmen.”

http://bigpeace.com/jhanson/2010/08/04/measuring-wikileaks-assange-for-an-orange-jumpsuit/

http://www.newsweek.com/2010/08/02/taliban-seeks-vengeance-in-wake-of-wikileaks.html?from=rss