Re: Don't shoot messenger for revealing uncomfortable truths

On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 6:43 PM, Karl <[email protected]> wrote:
> The outrage should be high, this is incredibly dangerous.

Dangerous?  Dangerous?!  I'll quote from the article:

WikiLeaks has a four-year publishing history. During that time we have changed
whole governments, but not a single person, as far as anyone is aware, has been
harmed. But the US, with Australian government connivance, has killed thousands
in the past few months alone.

**oh brother.  That is utterly lame.  The military kills, so even if he is bad
they are worse.  Thanks.

**as I mentioned earlier, afghan sources had to go into hiding because their
lives are now in jeopardy with their name releases.

US Secretary of Defence Robert Gates admitted in a letter to the US congress
that no sensitive intelligence sources or methods had been compromised by the
Afghan war logs disclosure. The Pentagon stated there was no evidence the
WikiLeaks reports had led to anyone being harmed in Afghanistan. NATO in Kabul
told CNN it couldn't find a single person who needed protecting. The Australian
Department of Defence said the same. No Australian troops or sources have been
hurt by anything we have published.

**After WikiLeaks published a trove of U.S. intelligence documents—some of which
listed the names and villages of Afghans who had been secretly cooperating with
the American military—it didn’t take long for the Taliban to react. A spokesman
for the group quickly threatened to ‘punish’ any Afghan listed as having
‘collaborated’ with the U.S. and the Kabul authorities against the growing
Taliban insurgency. In recent days, the Taliban has demonstrated how seriously
those threats should be considered. 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://www.oliverwillis.com/2010/08/03/wikileaks-gives-taliban-hitlist-of-afghan
-collaborators/
http://www.newsweek.com/2010/08/02/taliban-seeks-vengeance-in-wake-of-wikileaks.
html

**If it is proven that one person was killed by that guys leaks, which are
solely out of anti US hate, then I want him prosecuted for murder.


I'll find you the links for those statements by the Pentagon and the Secretary
of Defense and NATO, if you can't google them yourself.

**I read them.  And I think they are hushing iot, otherwise they will lose all
control in Afghanistan.


So for those keeping score: killing or torturing of innocents whether on purpose
or by criminal negligence; Wikileaks: 0; USA: tens of thousands.  +

**can't answer, my eyes are still rolling....

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