Many hate Wikileaks, thinking it harms the war effort. I like wikileaks because freedom of speech enables us to know what is really going on and fix mistakes. if this is the shambolic mess that Iraq is in, perhaps it is best we leave. we got rid of Saddam, an awful dictator, but if this is what is left behind, we need to face it, correct the problem and move forward in the right way. Really - clean up our act. Not just pretend to.
We're going to agree to disagree on this one.
| Documents were leaked simultaneously to the New York Times, the Guardian, Al Jazeera, and Der Spiegel. (Did I miss anyone?) If we're going to look at this, and I think we must, to see how much we already knew from open sources that comes as such a shock to the journalists involved. I'm looking forward to the ones detailing finds of WMD -- the bunkers full of huge barrels labelled insecticide, f'r instance, something like half a century's worth... and insecticide being so very little different from the traditional nerve gas formulations as to be usable for the same purpose. |
Graphic accounts of torture, civilian killings and Iran's hand in the Iraq war are detailed in hundreds of thousands of US military documents made public on the whistleblower website WikiLeaks.
Across nearly 400,000 pages of secret military field reports spanning five years, the largest military leak in history, a grim picture emerges of years of blood and suffering following the 2003 US invasion to oust Saddam Hussein. |