UPDATE: America The Terrorist State : Obama,Dems,GOP & U.S. Media Unite In Attacks On Wikileaks & Ignore War Crimes Detailed In Docs.

Our real enemies are not those living in a distant land whose names or policies we don't understand; The real enemy is a system that wages war when it's profitable, the CEOs who lay us off our jobs when it's profitable, the Insurance Companies who deny us Health care when it's profitable, the Banks who take away our homes when it's profitable. Our enemies are not several hundred thousands away. They are right here in front of us
- Mike Prysner Please Support the Veterans at: http://www.ivaw.org/

Anyway the response of the Obama administration and of Nato in general to the 92,000 files released by Wikileaks is at once surprising and yet not surprising at all. We had hoped President Obama would be different and would welcome the truth about this ill-fated war. Instead et tu Obama stabs the Progressives in America in the back. Moveon.org made irrelevant as Obama appeases the Far Right in America.

If the war on Terror is such a Noble Cause then why aren't the children of the politicians, the rich and powerful lining up to fight and even die for this Noble Cause - Instead the US Military is finding it difficult to recruit from the general population.
Every politician including , Obama. Biden, Clinton, & those of the GOP who are in favor of this war should be forced to send one of their loved ones to fight on the distant battlefields and not just to sit out the war in some cozy office far from the battlefields or permitted to hide out in the Green Zone aka The Emerald City in Iraq.

Need to stop the Bush/Obama Wars


"The Real Terrorist Was Me" Speech By War Veteran July 29, 2010 via Information Clearing House

Our real enemies are not those living in a distant land whose names or policies we don't understand; The real enemy is a system that wages war when it's profitable, the CEOs who lay us off our jobs when it's profitable, the Insurance Companies who deny us Health care when it's profitable, the Banks who take away our homes when it's profitable. Our enemies are not several hundred thousands away. They are right here in front of us
- Mike Prysner Please Support the Veterans at: http://www.ivaw.org/

Obama it appears is finally getting the fulfillment of his his dream of bipartisanship & cooperation among the competing interests in America.
Wikileaks Docs Dump unites friends and foes alike.
President Obama and the Dems and GOP/Republicans & the Far Right & Evangelicals/ Christian Nationalists want to prosecute not just those who leaked the Afghan War Files but also Wikileaks & its leader Julian Assange .
They also agree on continuing the ill-conceived War on Terror and in particular the War in Iraq and Afghanistan while demonizing all Muslims and Arabs etc. Its the American Way or the Highway.

Once again US politicians, the Pentagon, U.S. Military more concerned about keeping secrets than about War Crimes being committed daily in the so-called War on Terror.
Once they go after Wikileaks who will be next the above mentioned Iraq Veterans group who tell the truth about this insane, immoral war- because much of what they tell is considered classified or to be kept secret due to some wrong headed unconditional allegiance to the the U.S. military and the American status quo.
If it was up to Obama and Biden they would also make this retroactive to widen the net and shut down any critics of this war or any other war that America has fought.
Obam just like Bush/Cheney and the Washington Post. the New York Times, The Washington Times Fox News and CNN characterize all critics of these wars as traitors who should be silenced by any and all means necessary.

Progressives in America need to realize the current administration is not on the People's side but on the side of the status quo, the Big Corporations ie Haliburton and the War Profiteers who donate large amounts of money to these politicians as does the Health Insurance industry, thePharmaceuticals and the Military Industrial Complex.

If we are wrong about this then putting pressure on Obama by various Progressive groups such as Moveon.org should have some effect on Obama to start pulling troops out of Afghanistan, Iraq and the 1,000 other American bases around the Globe.
Instead Obama is building even more bases in South America and elsewhere ostensibly to stop Terrorism but in fact stop the liberalization and democratizing of countries which are supposed to tow the American line selling America goods at bargain prices while outlawing unions , using child-labor and the labor of prisoners and the destitute paid at below subsistence wages - so goes the American Empire bringing American Materialistic culture to the world while converting millions to the Americanized Christian Evangelical faith. After all Americans believe God and /or Jesus are cut from the same cloth as that of any greedy ruthless wealthy American Businessman.

And so Obama and John McCain & others want to extend the Police State and start taking on the liberal/leftist Progressive Media inside the U.S. and outside of it.
Will they shut down all criticisms of the War on Terror policies or who bring to light atrocities committed by U.S. or NATO forces etc.
All dissent especially that which is effective shall be shut down and silenced -

Graham: Prosecute WikiLeaks By Michael O'Brien - 07/28/10

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Wednesday called for the criminal prosecution of Wikileaks, the website that published classified military documents this week.

Graham, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee and a reserve military lawyer, seemed to go further than other GOP colleagues by calling for the prosecution of Wikileaks itself, and not just the source of the leaks.

“I’m willing to prosecute anybody who led to undermining the war effort,” Graham said during an appearance on Fox News.

“As far as I know, there’s no immunity for a website to be able to pass on documents,” Graham added, responding “yes” when asked directly if the website should be prosecuted.

Wikileaks has come under scrutiny for its decision to publish classified military documents detailing suspicions that elements within the Pakistani government were coordinating with the Taliban. These documents led to a full-fledged story in The New York Times, which has led to angry reactions from many lawmakers, who fear the leak undercut national security.

Graham’s colleagues — Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Rep. Pete King (R-N.Y.), among others — have called for the prosecution of whoever leaked the documents, but few have spoken of prosecuting Wikileaks itself.

McCain said Wednesday that he believes whoever leaked the documents to the organization should be punished with a life sentence.

Asked by syndicated conservative radio host Michael Medved if that was an appropriate punishment, McCain replied "Oh, I would think so."

Wikileaks’s founder has said he does not know the source of the leak. Reports have swirled suggesting that an Army private was responsible for the leak.

“We need to go after anyone who was involved in the leak of classified documents,” Graham said.

A Plea for Common Sense Why NATO Should Withdraw from Afghanistan By Christoph Schwennicke - "Spiegel" Via Information Clearing House July 27, 2010

-- It is difficult for politicians to admit they were wrong. But when it comes to Afghanistan, the consequences of not doing so could be high. It is time for the West to cut its losses and withdraw.

The most difficult thing to do in politics is to change course -- admitting that everything that was right yesterday is wrong today. It is a particularly challenging maneuver when the decision is between war and peace.

Winston Churchill, stubborn as he was, never could admit that he had made a mistake in 1915 when, as first lord of the Admiralty, his strategic error helped lead to the bitter defeat of the Entente troops at the hands of the Ottoman Empire at Gallipoli. Similarly, it took 30 years for former US Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara to acknowledge that the Vietnam War had been a mistake.

The German government, NATO and the West shouldn't wait that long. Together they should realize -- and admit -- that the war in Afghanistan is not going to end in success. We have failed. The war has been lost. The country that we leave behind will not be pacified. It is possible that we could have been successful had we understood earlier how the country works. But now, we are no longer a part of the solution -- increasingly, we have become part of the problem. It is best just to leave now, before additional blood is spilled. The secret war logs given by WikiLeaks to SPIEGEL confirm as much.

Led by the US, NATO and other Western allies have been trying to pacify Afghanistan for almost 10 years -- with little success. War aims have changed frequently. None of them, however, has been achieved. The intervals between the large-scale Afghanistan conferences, from Berlin to Paris, London to Kabul, have become ever shorter, but the list of problems has only grown. The country remains a potential breeding ground for terrorism as it was prior to the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks in the US. And little that the West has imported to Afghanistan since then has put down such deep roots that it would survive a pullout for long. Girls' schools, wells and newly paved roads are pleasant side effects of the NATO mission in Afghanistan. As a justification, however, they are not enough.

also see related articles:

FBI chief says agents assisting Pentagon on WikiLeaks investigation
The Associated Press via Kansas City.com July 28, 2010

Afghan “War Doesn’t Seem Winnable:” Pakistan’s UN Ambassador by Alex Seitz-Wald via AlterNet & Think Progress July 30, 2010

White House Pushes for Warrantless Access to Internet Records Attorney speculates data could include Facebook friend requests by Muriel Kane from The Raw Story via CommonDreams.org July 29,2010

...Making FBI requests for such data easier rather than more difficult would weaken those safeguards -- and the Post notes that national security letters have been abused in the past. There are also questions as to how broadly the new language might be applied.

Kevin Bankston of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, for example, told the Post that because the phrase "electronic communication transactional records" is not defined in the statute, "an expanded NSL power might be used to obtain Internet search queries and Web histories detailing every Web site visited and every file downloaded."

WikiLeaks: Time to Celebrate, Time to Mourn by Jeff Cohen at Truthout.org July 27,2010

and Veterans suffering from Gulf War Syndrome connected to the use of depleted Uranium which the pentagon and White House have denied-the question is will the Obama administration take appropriate action or just silence the veteran groups and others-gag orders on all US military personnel & Vets as well???


Document Reveals Military Was Concerned About Gulf War Vets' Exposure to Depleted Uranium by Mike Ludwig via TruthOut.org,July 28,2010

and on racism and promotion of anti-Islamic bigotry and Christian Supremacy:

Obama has not as yet taken decisive action against those in the Pentagon and U.S. Military who are promoting Evangelical Fundamentalism & Christian Nationalism while allowing for the discrimination and even violence against Non-Evangelical Christians.

No Dominion: The Lonely, Dangerous Fight Against Christian Supremacists Inside the Armed Forces Mathew Harwood via Truthout.org July 11, 2010

Right-Wing Group Launches ‘Anti-Islamic’ Bus Ads in Major Cities July 28, 2010

and: Right-Wing Pol Comes Clean; Says First Amendment May not Apply to Muslims by Joshua Holland via AlterNet.org July 27,2010

Haters Go After the ‘Ground Zero Mosque’ by leonard Peikoff via Anti-war.com, July 23, 2010

and so it goes,
GORD.

UPDATE: CBC Condemns Wikileaks Released Military Files & Unconditionally Defends Disastrous & Criminal War On Terror Policies

...The only way to win the "War on Terror" is to rise above it and reclaim our leadership role by recognizing international law and not creating policy based on fear. Until we as a nation once again hold ourselves to the standards we demand of others, we will continue to lose friends and create enemies.

From : The War on Terror: Beyond the Military by Lt. Col. Barry Wingard (attorney, Judge Advocate, U.S. Airforce) at Huffington Post , July 28, 2010

Wikileaks leader Julian Assange compared the release of “The Afghan War Diaries” to Daniel Ellsberg’s release in 1971 of the Pentagon Papers. Those classified documents revealed the duplicitous arguments used to justify the Vietnam War and played an important role in eventually getting Congress to cut off funding.

Ellsberg’s courageous act was the subject of a recent Oscar-nominated documentary, entitled “The Most Dangerous Man in America," named after one of the less profane sobriquets thrown Ellsberg’s way by then-national security adviser Henry Kissinger.

...Assange noted that the classified material includes many heart-rending incidents that fit into the mosaic of a larger human catastrophe. These include one depicted in Der Spiegel’s reportage of accidental killings on June 17, 2007, when U.S. Special Forces fired five rockets at a Koran school in which a prominent al-Qaeda functionary was believed to be hiding.

When the smoke cleared, the Special Forces found no terrorist, but rather six dead children in the rubble of the school and another who died shortly after.

Above quote from:WikiLeaks Bombshell Docs Paint Afghan War as Utter Disaster -- Will We Finally Stop Throwing Money and Lives at This Catastrophe?
There's clear proof the war in Afghanistan is a complete failure -- we must demand an immediate exit. By Ray McGovern
Via Consortium News & AlterNet.org, July 26, 2010


Report from BBC on Wikileaks Docs Dump-Bad news for USA and Nato-Media and governments under reporting civilian deaths and sugar-coating progress of war in Aghanistan.

Largest Leak In U.S. Military History!






CBC blaming the messenger. CBC defends status quo and the US war on terror unconditionally
CBC and Canadian Media downplay wikileaks docs dump of US military files.
Of course the CBC is not going to bother investigating the reports because the CBC and Canadian Media like the US Media are an Echo chamber for the Pro-war factions and they believe we must support the War on Terror and any criticism of our policies or of America's motives and actions is to be discredited. This is especially true since the Harper government is made up primarily of Neocons and uberconservatives who are trying to bring about radical change in Canadian policies both foreign and domestic.

Here's a conundrum: Obama says there is nothing new in these leaked files and yet he is angry about their release. So which is it???
And what happened to Obama's promise of transparency???
And why is Obama desperately defending the US military and the former Bush Regime???
If he admits that War Crimes were committed than he might have to do something about it while he wants to forget about the past even if its three years ago or three days ago.
It is Obama who is to be held responsible for the callous disregard for Civilian casualties who were wounded or killed under his watch ie by the deadly Reaper Drones or dropping Big 2,000 pound bombs on villages & and Weddings , funerals and family gatherings!!!
When documents were released last year revealing the extent of deception war crimes, abuse and torture of detainees, of using White Phosphorus /Napalm on civilian targets by the US and Nato forces and the use of hit squads or deatrh squads Obama pretended those docs were also unimportant .
What he has said is just an Echo of Bush and Cheney that whatever America, its military, the CIA, special forces and its mercenaries do is by definition above reproach because America is the standard barrer of Western Democracy and Civilization and Christian morality.

Wikileaks: Canadian soldiers 'killed' in friendly fire



Of course families of killed Canadian soldiers are going to insist that their family members were killed by Taliban rather than by friendly fire.

AlJazeeraEnglish | July 28, 2010

As the US government assesses the impact of the wiki leaks revelations on military operations in Afghanistan, the posting of the material online has unveiled another previously unknown incident.

The documents suggests that four Canadian soldiers who died in 2006 were actually killed when a US jet dropped a bomb on a building they were occupying.

Al Jazeera's Imtiaz Tyab reports from Toronto.

July 29, 2010

WikiLeaks Reveals Unknown Friendly Fire Incident! Americans Killed Canadians!




RT WikiLeaks reveals civilians are fair game in US war tactics




and see:

The War on Terror: Beyond the Military by Lt. Col. Barry Wingard (attorney, Judge Advocate, U.S. Airforce at Huffinton Post , july 28, 2010

In America, the "War on Terror" has become a subjective "us" versus "them" battle that serves to advance stereotypes based upon who we believe we are as Americans and who, or what, we perceive "them" to be. In a real sense, significant effort has gone toward convincing Americans with little worldly experience that a billion Muslim "them" think a certain way and hate us for our free and democratic way of life.

The "War on Terror" should be about taking the moral high ground and protecting law-abiding people of all races, ethnicity and religious faiths. But in the past eight years, it has wrongly been used to sell the idea that the arbitrary "them" are sub-human because they are not like "us." Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib are perfect examples of what happens as a result. These military prisons are already touchstones for the "War on Terror" in history books and nothing we do will ever change that. But, certainly we can do more than continue the mistakes of current and past presidential administrations.

While prosecuting cases in Iraqi courts, I personally witnessed the consequences of misguided U.S. policies. The defendants I was prosecuting were much more likely to be unemployed Iraqis trying to make money, rather than extremists driven by religion or philosophy. Often, when it came to offering justifications for opposing U.S. forces, defendants would cite Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo Bay or the United States' invasion of Iraq. Very few cited historic or religious animosity as the basis for their actions.

...The only way to win the "War on Terror" is to rise above it and reclaim our leadership role by recognizing international law and not creating policy based on fear. Until we as a nation once again hold ourselves to the standards we demand of others, we will continue to lose friends and create enemies.

Our nation has survived dark times in the past and we can do so again -- not by hiding our mistakes, but by publicly rejecting them and changing course. In the present instance, a fair and public trial in a real court for every detainee at Guantanamo Bay is essential. We must put an end to the approach of placing human beings in legal black holes and allowing fear to dictate a policy that contradicts what we have defined as our American way of life.

and so it goes,
GORD.

Wikileaks Story Downplayed By Media While The White House Goes Into Attack Mode

So anyway the mainstream media in the US and here in Canada are doing all they can to convince the public that Wikileaks releasing of files to public was "Much ado about nothing".
If they are unimportant documents why did the White House so quickly begin an attack on Wikileaks and will go after the whistleblower.
Me thinks they protest too much.

US criticises Wikileaks release of Afghan war documents



and from MSNBC's Rachel Maddow Show we get more of the same old dog and pony show in which the criminals are those who pass on secret documents and not those who mass murder innocent civilians or abuse detainees or those who spread lie and propaganda in order to gain support for a disastrous war which is an ongoing War Crime.
Any who dare speak the truth Bush and Cheney oh sorry Obama and Biden will find them and execute them on the spot or maybe they , the Whistleblowers will have convenient accidents as they do in Banana Republics which America is quickly becoming.

Rachel Maddow Show on Wikileaks
Submitted by davidswanson on Tue, 2010-07-27 03:26

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If these documents are worrying to the Obama administration what can we conclude or surmise.
Is It some sort of Faux outrage or lashing out because of the principle of keeping as many secrets as possible-
Whisleblowers are in effect the enemy of any government .
But Whistleblowers more often than not do a great service for our society ie the peoples right to know.
Obama's supporters had hoped that Obama would allow for more transparency instead the Obama Administration is as paranoid and secretive as the Bush Regime had been.
Many had believed that Obama would insist on legislation to protect Whistleblowers . Because even in the best of governments there maybe a department which has gone awry is inept or corrupt or have gone rogue. But no Obama believes in the status quo after all is said and done.
Rest of the world including the Western nations need to realize American Exceptionalism and its desire for Empire has not ended and that the Obama administration will stoop to any tactic to protect American interests.
For what does it matter to the people who's villages are destroyed and the population wiped out by American bombs and Reaper Drones if the orders are given by a Democratic or Republican President. As Obama and Bush Gibbs Biden Condi Rice and Hilary Clinton have few tears to shed for the common people of these countries which America has set aflame.
Note Gibbs tries to claim there is nothing new in these released documents yet lashes out that these released documents put American troops in harm's way-so which is it-they reveal nothing new or present a threat to the troops???
In the video the Mainstream Media focuses on Pakistan and avoids talking about the US Military's callous disregard for the unnecessary deaths of civilians.
This is to be expected since from the get go after 9/11 attacks the Media has shown a callous disregard itself for the deaths on Non-Americans including terrorists suspects and innocent civilians -MSM's attitude is no better than the likes of Ann Coulter or Glenn Beck or Michael Savage and their slogan of "Kill'em all " that is Muslims, Arabs,Pashtun, or the peoples of Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iraq etc.(Next stop Iran???)

And so Obama for all his rhetorical flourishes and talk of Hope & Change in this regard there is no change except that he has ginned up the war in Afghanistan and is preparing to attack Iran and other Middle East countries to appease the angry mob of American citizens who have successfully been whipped up into hatred and fear of all Muslims and Arabs & Middle Easterners by the Government & Media's steady diet of lies and Propaganda.

Another possibility is that the Faux Outrage is a political move to appease the right and the Pentagon & the Military etc.

A more damning possibility that the documents could provide evidence for laying criminal charges on military personnel , the Pentagon and the members of the Bush Regime.
And this is a problem?
Yes because Obama still doesn't want to take on the members of the Bush Regime and so feels he may get boxed in if the public realizes how important these leaked files are.

And an even more damning possibility is that these files have evidence pertaining not just to criminal actions carried out during the Bush Regime but also under Obama's Regime.
For instance Obama right from the Get go has been using Reaper Drones which are unintelligent flying bombs controlled by some guy in Nebraska. They have been responsible for large numbers of civilian casualties - they like to target weddings ,funerals, family gatherings etc.

Or is there the possibility that the military is continuing to act as it did during Bush's term and do not see themselves as obliged to change their tactics or their attitude towards the civilians of Iraq or Aghanistan .
But Obama has knowingly put Uberconservative Hawks and neocons some of whom were part of the Bush Regime in key positions so they in effect are controlling how the War on Terror is to be fought.
Did he appoint such people as part of his reconciliation and his obsession with bipartisanism and having everybody get along.
It may be nice for many Americans but it is having a deadly effect on people in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Palestine & Gaza or the populace in Iran waiting for a little shock and awe American style.
This America is not a video game.



Joshua Holland in his latest article argues that the Wikileaks disclosure of some 92,000 us military files is important since it gives a more detailed version of events revealing that the war is going badly and that the whole operation is an ongoing War Crime . So it is revealed that particular bombing was less than successful as portayed by the Pentagon or Washington. They report no civilian casualties but the truth is that 300 civilians were killed in a single attack .So how many other attacks turned out as disastrous as the one cited. Did the military simply mess up or is it an indictment against the military, the Pentagon's attitude which suggest a callous and even criminal disregard for civilian casualties.

Why Wikileaks’ Doc-Dump Is Such a Big Deal (Even if There’s Nothing New Within) by joshua holland via AlterNet.org july 27, 2010

There is a tendency among People Who Pay Close Attention To Things to think other Americans are also paying attention — to decent information — and are therefore somewhat in the know.

That leads to people trying to get away with ridiculous claims, such as this:

ANYONE who has spent the past two days reading through the 92,000 military field reports and other documents made public by the whistle-blower site WikiLeaks may be forgiven for wondering what all the fuss is about. I’m a researcher who studies Afghanistan and have no regular access to classified information, yet I have seen nothing in the documents that has either surprised me or told me anything of significance. I suspect that’s the case even for someone who reads only a third of the articles on Afghanistan in his local newspaper.

That paragraph was from an op-ed piece by Andrew Exum, a fellow with the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) — a pro-Afghanistan war think-tank — in The New York Times. Exum’s message seems to be, ‘move along, folks, there’s nothing to see here.’ Understandable — CNAS, according to a WaPo report last year, “may emerge as Washington’s go-to think tank on military affairs” in the Obama era. CNAS staff have “filled key posts in the new administration (such as former CNAS president Michele Flournoy, who is now undersecretary of defense for policy), and its top people include John Nagl, who helped draft the Army’s counterinsurgency manual, and David Kilcullen, a former adviser to Gen. David H. Petraeus.”

And his suspicion that everyone already knows this stuff is bullshit. In 1997, the government conducted a huge survey on American adults’ civic participation. Almost a third of the public couldn’t say what “job or political office” Al Gore held — after he had spent five years serving as vice-president. Around a third didn’t know which party held the majority in Congress at the time. Perhaps most shockingly, at least to political buffs like myself, was that 49 percent of Americans surveyed didn’t know “which party is more conservative at the national level.” That’s domestic politics — a subject that Americans tend to have a better grasp on than foreign affairs. Two years after the attacks of 9/11, 70 percent of the public believed in a conspiracy theory which held that Saddam Hussein had had a connection to the attacks.

So, this document dump pushes what a few war-nerds may have grasped from a thousand stories on page B-6 onto the front page, revealing not a series of “unfortunate incidents” but a pattern of disregard for civilian casualties that disproves a central tenet of our COIN strategy — that war can be fought in a kinder, gentler, more progressive way thus helping win the hearts and minds of the local population.

Here’s a report from the Times’ news section that completely contradicts Exum’s ‘ho-hum’ narrative:

The disclosure of a six-year archive of classified military documents increased pressure on President Obama to defend his military strategy as Congress prepares to deliberate financing of the Afghanistan war.

The disclosures, with their detailed account of a war faring even more poorly than two administrations had portrayed, landed at a crucial moment. Because of difficulties on the ground and mounting casualties in the war, the debate over the American presence in Afghanistan has begun earlier than expected. Inside the administration, more officials are privately questioning the policy.

In Congress, House leaders were rushing to hold a vote on a critical war-financing bill as early as Tuesday, fearing that the disclosures could stoke Democratic opposition to the measure. A Senate panel is also set to hold a hearing on Tuesday on Mr. Obama’s choice to head the military’s Central Command, Gen. James N. Mattis, who would oversee military operations in Afghanistan.

Administration officials acknowledged that the documents, released on the Internet by an organization called WikiLeaks, will make it harder for Mr. Obama as he tries to hang on to public and Congressional support until the end of the year, when he has scheduled a review of the war effort.

Exum isn’t alone arguing that ‘there’s no there there,’ but I don’t think that’s going to cut it. Recent history certainly suggests it won’t:

The [Pentagon] papers revealed that the U.S. had deliberately expanded its war with carpet bombing of Cambodia and Laos, coastal raids on North Vietnam, and Marine Corpsattacks, none of which had been reported by media in the US. The revelations widened the credibility gap between the US government and the people, allegedly hurting President Richard Nixon’s war effort.

And here is an example of why it is a big deal- at least the deaths of 300 civilians should be a big deal. But it may be the propaganda of the last nine years have mad the public immune to such a death toll of Afghans or Muslims. Afterall the government and Media including Television Dramas like "24" or various movies where Middle Easterners and Muslims and Arabs etc. have been demonized as ruthless heartless terrorists who"do not value life as we in the West do". Such an attitude is the very foundation of of Ethnic Cleansing or Genocide in this case referred to as Protecting American Interests and National Security .

Is it not written that Killing one man it is as if you killed all of mankind.
and Do they not bleed when cut or wounded or blown to pieces.

US Attack Killed 300 Civilians In Afghanistan: Report Wikileaks: US forces hit target 'with no civilian deaths' – but Afghans tell different tale:

Special forces ensured 'no innocent Afghans in area', but villagers say up to 300 civilians died in attack

By David Leigh July 27, 2010 "The Guardian" Via Information Clearing House

-- On 2 August 2007, a US special forces team mounted what they hoped would be an assassination spectacular in the Baghni valley, in the mountains of northern Helmand. They called it Operation Jang Baz.

Special operations troops, the war logs report, "tracked and fixed 2 senior Taliban commanders" to the remote spot. The files reveal their names were Mullah Ikhlas, and his deputy, known as Qalandari. Both were listed as "High Value Individuals tier 2", putting them near the top of the US "kill or capture" list. Ikhlas was believed to run the entire Taliban fighting machine in southern Afghanistan.

The special forces command claimed that Ikhlas was "conducting a major Shura" – a conference of top Taliban. After dropping six 2,000lb GBU-31 guided bombs on the meeting from a B1 jet, the coalition reported "effectively destroying the primary target location" and killing 50 "Taliban senior commanders, security and fighters". Lt Gen John Mulholland, of the special operations command, later claimed "over 150 Taliban fighters" had been killed.

It was later realised that despite "multiple forms of positive identification" Ikhlas had in fact probably never been there at all. The US was to claim to have killed him again in another air strike on 2 December 2007, and subsequently arrested a Mullah Ikhlas many months later, on 7 May 2008, in Garmsir, further south in Helmand.

A statement released from Bagram air base on the day of Operation Jang Baz said the bombs had been dropped "after ensuring there were no innocent Afghans in the surrounding area".

Within 24 hours, however, villagers were telling a very different story from the one presented in the war logs. Locals told Reuters that up to 300 civilians – as well as a number of Taliban – were killed in the air strike after they had been rounded up to watch a Taliban-organised public hanging of two suspected spies. No mention of such a "Taliban court" appears in the official war logs , where it might have flagged up the prospect of civilian deaths.

The local police chief was reported as claiming more than 20 wounded civilians were sent to a hospital in Lashkar Gar and others transferred to hospitals in Kandahar. A doctor at the Lashkar Gar hospital was quoted as saying he was treating at least 18 civilians, including an eight-year-old.

War Logs are No Surprise to Afghans The Real Question Afghans Want Answering is the Extent its Allies Knew of Pakistan's Involvement in Undermining Nato by Nushin Arbabzadah The Guardian/UK July 27, 2010 via Common Dreams.org


Julian Assange's remarkable service to truth, transparency and democracy are appreciated on the ground in Afghanistan. Yet there was little in the WikiLeaks revelations that came as a surprise to Afghans and the local media mostly refrained from commenting, limiting their effort to reporting news of the publication of secret files.

Only a few papers tried to take a clear stance in reaction to the story. This silence could be interpreted in different ways. Given that the WikiLeaks revelations primarily compromise Afghanistan's key ally in Washington by showing that the US army has little regard for civilian casualties, the papers might have feared backlash by the Kabul administration and hence refrained from comment to avoid confrontation. Alternatively, the silence might have a mundane explanation: nothing in the published secret files was news to Afghans.

If anything, the WikiLeaks files substantiated Afghan authorities' much-repeated concern that the neighbouring states played a key role in systematically undermining Nato's efforts in Afghanistan.

In the words of presidential spokesman Wahid Omer, "the sheer number of the reports might be surprising, but not so their content". The spokesman added: "There are two issues that appear repeatedly in the secret files and that are a matter of concern to us: the issue of civilian casualties and the role of the Pakistani intelligence ISI in actively undermining stability in Afghanistan."

Echoing his words, the pro-government Hewad daily said the WikiLeaks revelations substantiated the Afghan authorities' views that the root-causes of terrorism were not Afghan, but lay elsewhere, outside of the country. The paper added that the reports prove President Hamid Karzai right that little has been done to protect Afghan civilians' lives and property.

Among the few papers that commented was the independent daily Hasht-e Sobh. In an editorial entitled "The secrets that were not so secret after all", the paper said: "Despite much international uproar, hype and fuss, there is hardly anything in the reports that we have not yet known about." Islamabad's active and determined support for the Taliban and other terrorist groups that create horrific violence in Afghanistan; the fact that the Taliban have now gained access to advanced weaponry or that the ISI staff attend terrorists' meetings and provide them with logistic, financial and moral support are issues that ordinary people and Afghan authorities have long suspected and known about it. In the words of Hasht-e Sobh: "If anything, Pakistani authorities have hardly tried to conceal all this."

For Afghans, the more pertinent question that arises from the WikiLeaks revelations is the degree in which Kabul's international allies have been aware of Pakistan's involvement in actively undermining Nato's success in Afghanistan. Hasht-e Sobh was sceptical about Washington's innocence: "To assume that by carrying out such secret activities Pakistan has been trying to fool Washington is naive if not downright silly."

But what about the rest of the Nato countries whose troops are currently based in Afghanistan? In the words of Hasht-e Sobh: "Bearing in mind that throughout the many years of the jihad against the Soviets the international community has been working together and sharing intelligence, and the fact that they had chosen Pakistan to act on their behalf and fight the Soviets on the ground in Afghanistan, we find it hard to believe that the revelations have taken them fully by surprise."

"New York Times reporters met with White House before publishing WikiLeaks story The administration "praised" New York Times reporters for their handling of leaked Afghan war material"

By Alex Pareene

July 27, 2010 "Salon" -- The White House was very upset with WikiLeaks for its decision to publish thousands of pages of classified reports and documents describing our mission in Afghanistan. But according to Yahoo's Michael Calderone, it was very pleased with how the New York Times dealt with its semi-exclusive access to the documents.

Times Washington bureau chief Dean Baquet took reporters Mark Mazzetti and Eric Schmitt to the White House last week to brief the administration on what they planned on publishing. And they all got gold stars.

“I did in fact go the White House and lay out for them what we had,” Baquet said. “We did it to give them the opportunity to comment and react. They did. They also praised us for the way we handled it, for giving them a chance to discuss it, and for handling the information with care. And for being responsible.”

The Times redacted some information in the name of "national security" and protecting the safety of individual soldiers, but the White House doesn't seem to have told the Times that publishing stories based on these documents would in any real way harm our troops.

So, uh ... why was all of this information classified and top secret? If it's old news, and it just confirms what "everyone" already knows, what was the rationale for keeping it classified and calling WikiLeaks all sorts of mean names for publishing it?

and another example of journalist missing the point that these documents provide evidence of abuse of power, negligence and a callous disregard of the wounding and killing of civilians and other War Crimes . So even some self-proclaimed progressives may get it wrong.

Leaked Reports Make Afghan War Policy More Vulnerable
by Gareth Porter via CommonDreams.org July 27, 2010

The 92,000 reports on the war in Afghanistan made public by the whistleblower organisation WikiLeaks, and reported Monday by the Guardian, The New York Times and Der Spiegel, offer no major revelations that are entirely new, as did the Pentagon Papers to which they are inevitably being compared.

But they increase the political pressure on a war policy that has already suffered a precipitous loss of credibility this year by highlighting contradictions between the official assumptions of the strategy and the realities shown in the documents - especially in regard to Pakistan's role in the war.

Unlike the Pentagon Papers, which chronicle the policymaking process leading up to and during the Vietnam War, the WikiLeaks documents chronicle thousands of local incidents and situations encountered by U.S. and other NATO troops that illustrate chronic problems for the U.S.-NATO effort.

Among the themes that are documented, sometimes dramatically but often through bland military reports, are the seemingly casual killing of civilians away from combat situations, night raids by special forces that are often based on bad intelligence, the absence of legal constraints on the abuses of Afghan police, and the deeply rooted character of corruption among Afghan officials.

The most politically salient issue highlighted by the new documents, however, is Pakistan's political and material support for the Taliban insurgency, despite its ostensible support for U.S. policy in Afghanistan.

and so it goes,
GORD.

Daniel Ellsberg Compares Wikileaks Documents to THE PENTAGON PAPERS & White House Condemns Wikileaks Denying Afghanistan War Is A Disaster

Wikileaks release to the public of over 90,000 US military documents should act as a wake up call for the USA & NATO to rethink the War in Afghanistan and to pull out their forces as soon as possible. Instead the Obama administration and much of the US and Canadian media are attacking Wikileaks and downplaying the substance of these documents.
Once again truth has become the greatest casualty of the Truped Up War on Terror.
Though some conservatives in the USA are using the leaked documents as proof that the Obama administration has made matters worse in Afghanistan.
But some 80 to 90 percent of the documents are from the Bush era showing that the policy in Afghanistan was a disaster from the beginning.
The Bush Regime as we know was more interested in invading Iraq and taking down Saddam than they were in catching Osama or to destroy Al Qaeda.
The Obama administration is furious over these documents being made public in part because it detracts from their own agenda which is to to attack, invade and occupy Iran even though Iran like Iraq is not an immediate threat to the United States or to Israel.
But they believe truth and facts shoud not get in the way of their lies and propaganda to promote perpetual war ala Leo Strauss and the Neoconservatives.
The idea of war is more palatable to the electorate if it is presented in Global apocalyptic & religious terms - as The Clash of Civilizations or as a Clash between Christianity and Islam or as a war to protect and expand America's interests which outweighs and trumps the interests of all other sovereingn nations.

WikiLeaks 90,000+ Secret Military Docs Part 2/7 - Democracy NOW! July 26



WikiLeaks 90,000+ Secret Military Docs Part 3/7 - Democracy NOW!
Afghanistan war an abject failure

Democracy NOW! - DN! We host a roundtable discussion with independent British journalist Stephen Grey, Pentagon Papers whistleblower, Daniel Ellsberg, former State Department official in Afghanistan, Matthew Hoh, independent journalist Rick Rowley and investigative historian Gareth Porter. More than 90,000 internal records of US military actions in Afghanistan over the past six years have been published by the whistleblower website WikiLeaks. The documents provide a devastating portrait of the war in Afghanistan, revealing how coalition forces have killed hundreds of civilians in unreported incidents, how a secret black ops special forces unit hunts down targets for assassination or detention without trial, how Taliban attacks have soared and how Pakistan is fueling the insurgency.



WikiLeaks Documents: Cenk Hosts MSNBC (Sam Seder & Matt Lewis Debate)



and so it goes,
GORD.

UPDATE: Wikileaks Releases Top Secret Documents ON Afghanistan War Obama Furious About Leaks Not About War Crimes

UPDATE: Wikileaks Releases Top Secret Documents ON Afghanistan War Obama Furious About Leaks Not About War Crimes

Wikileaks makes public thousands of government files related to the war in Afghanistan from 2004-2010.
Obama upset over the leak vows to get the culprits rather than deal with America's War Crimes & Crimes Against Humanity!!!
Released at Wikileaks, Guardian,UK, & NY Times

Sunday, July 26 5pm EST.WikiLeaks today released over 75,000 reports covering the war in Afghanistan.

The Afghan War Diaries an extraordinary secret compendium of over 91,000 reports covering the war in Afghanistan from 2004 to 2010. The reports describe the majority of lethal military actions involving the United States military. They include the number of persons internally stated to be killed, wounded, or detained during each action, together with the precise geographical location of each event, and the military units involved and major weapon systems used.

The Afghan War Diaries is the most significant archive about the reality of war to have ever been released during the course of a war. The deaths of tens of thousands is normally only a statistic but this archive reveals locations and key events behind each of these individual deaths. We hope the impact will lead to a comprehensive understanding of the war in Afghanistan and modern warfare in general.

These reports have been primarily written by soldiers and intelligence officers listening to reports radioed in from front line deployments. However the reports also contain related information from Marines intelligence, US Embassies, and reports about corruption and development activity across Afghanistan.

Each report consists of the time and precise geographic location of an event that the US Army considers significant. It includes several additional standardized fields: The broad type of the event (combat, non-combat, propaganda, etc.); the category of the event as classified by US Forces, how many were detained, wounded, and killed from civilian, allied, host nation, and enemy forces; the name of the reporting unit and a number of other fields, the most significant of which is the summary - This is an English language description of the events that are covered in the report.

also see: In Disclosing Secret Documents, WikiLeaks Seeks ‘Transparency’ By ERIC SCHMITT Published: July 25, 2010

and see:
Afghanistan War Logs, Guardian.co.uk July 25, 2010

Afghan Bombshell: WikiLeaks 'War Diary' exposes US cover-up



Obama administration complicit in coverups and complicit in War Crimes-Obama Fail
CNN tries to undermine WIKILEAKS But Fails.
CNN not interested in exposing US & NATO War Crimes & Crimes Against Humanity
White House Furious At WikiLeaks Publishing 'Total History' Of Afghanistan War
MOXNEWSd0tCOM | July 26, 2010

http://MOXNews.com/


Meanwhile Obama bullied by the Neocons such as Bill Kristol, Karl Rove, Fox News, etc. is now planning the bombing and possible occupation of Iran in other words another unjustifiable war. Will those Bombs only kill the bad guys? or will they also blow to pieces whole families or occupied schools or day cares- ah well they tell us the only good Iranian or Iraqi or Afghan is a dead one in this brutal Holy War against Islam.

And now "the Gloves come off" as Cheney once famously said as Obama , Biden, Clinton and the Neo-Liberals (Fascism lite) are pushing for War against Iran based upon more Bogus intel prove they are as eager for was as Bush and Cheney and the Neocons were in thei propaganda and lies about Iraq.
Yes we were here before and it never seems to end no matter who is in power.

Ex-CIA chief: Strike on Iran seems more likely now AP via Washington Post ,July 25, 2010

WASHINGTON -- A former CIA director says military action against Iran now seems more likely because no matter what the U.S. does diplomatically, Tehran keeps pushing ahead with its suspected nuclear program.

Michael Hayden, a CIA chief under President George W. Bush, says that during his tenure a strike was "way down the list" of options. But he tells CNN's "State of the Union" that such action now "seems inexorable."

He predicts Iran will build its program to the point where it's just below having an actual weapon. Hayden says that would be as destabilizing to the region as the real thing.

U.S. officials have said military action remains an option if sanctions fail to deter Iran.

Iran says its nuclear work is for peaceful purposes such as power generation.

also see: Resolution Green-Lighting Israeli Strikes on Iran Introduced by House Republicans By Jamal Abdi July 23, 2010 "Huffington Post"

Republicans in the House of Representatives have introduced a measure that would green-light an Israeli bombing campaign against Iran. The resolution, H.Res. 1553 (in full below), provides explicit support for military strikes against Iran, stating that Congress supports Israel's use of "all means necessary" against Iran "including the use of military force". US military leaders have warned that strikes could be catastrophic to US national security interests and could engulf the Middle East in a "calamitous" regional war.

Nearly a third of House Republicans have signed onto the resolution, which has been publicly discussed and circulated by its lead sponsor, Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX), for months. The National Iranian American Council is leading calls to oppose the measure, urging those concerned to demand that House Republican Leader John Boehner denounce the resolution.

The introduction of the measure coincides with a pattern of renewed calls for military strikes that have escalated since President Obama signed "crippling" Congressional Iran sanctions into law. Neoconservatives who were instrumental in orchestrating the Iraq War, such as Bill Kristol, and Reuel Marc Gerecht, have led the stepped up calls for military action. -

and more bad news for the Obama Administration as thousands of US government files have been made public by Weakileaks, the Guardian UK and the NY Times.
Neocons will be pleased Bush and Obama have shown little or no concern over civilian deaths.

The war is in fact a disaster and Americans are continuing to commit war crimes and slaughtering innocent civilians. All the war crimes committed even under the Bush/Cheney Regime are becoming Obama's since he has refused to hold anyone accountable for these crimes.

Afghanistan war logs: Massive leak of secret files exposes truth of occupation Guardian.co.uk, July 25, 2010

EXCLUSIVE: In one of the biggest security breaches in history secret details have been made public by Wikileaks, alleging "execution squads", an apparent plot to kill President Karzai and previously unreported civilian deaths. In an exclusive Channel 4 News interview Wikileaks editor Julian Assange defends his decision to leak 200,000 pages of classified military data onto the internet.

One of the disturbing elements of this story is that the Obama administration condemns the leaking of facts which show that the Afghanistan war is not going well. Like the former Bush/Cheney regime the administration is only concerned about its public image and shows little or no concern or remorse over the slaughter of innocent civilians by American and NATO troops.

Meanwhile the Pentagon, the Congress and the Whitehouse accompanied by their media echo chamber are ready to take on Iran and kill a few hundred thousand Iranians just to show that Iran is evil and working with the Anti-Christ or some other daft crap. Or some claim Iran was behind the 9/11 attacks and was the main force of resistance in Iraq which is a lot of nonsense. Meanwhile they are building the same bogus case against Iran as they did about Iraq. So like John McCain and Sarah Palin and Newt Gingrich the Obama war mongers can't wait to use a bit of theatrics "shock and Awe" to dazzle and mis direct the public from the fact that Israel has nukes and yet is not criticized for having nukes and will not be criticized for using them in any manner they so choose.

Iran should be allowed to develop nuclear energy resources like any other country.
One theory is that since the overthrow of the American backed ruthless brutal dictator the Shah of Iran and followed by the hostage taking of Americans the USA has wanted to obliterate Iran ever since.

First they encouraged, cajoled and bribed their friendly puppet dictator Saddam to take on a long bloody and indecisive war against Iran. Saddam was supplied with weapons, fighter jets, helicopters weapons , biological weapons, gas etc. by America, France, Britain and Germany primarily but he failed.
Since Saddam failed to defeat or humiliate Iran the USA decided he was no longer a worthwhile asset and he knew too much.


The only hope Iran has is if other Muslim and Arab countries and those nations who believe in the Rule Of Law including International Law are willing to take a stand against America and Israel.

The Rule of Law when it comes to war is clear in its rules and conditions which must be met for one nation to go to war against another. There needs to be either an attack on the other nation or its allies which against illegal, immoral , unjustified" Wars Of Aggression ". Even the United Nations will probably step aside fearing retaliation by the American Empire. Being the only Super Power Americans believe they must show the world that they are not to be fucked with.
This is Real Politik in its most naked and immoral form.

All that matters according to the Neocons and, the Neoliberals who follow in the footsteps of Nietzche is "The Will To Power". Force is all that matters.
In order to maintain America's self-delusions and its corrupt way of life it must be willing to use force while claiming as other Empires have that they are spreading peace, good order and democracy to the world and as an added bonus Evangelical Fundamentalist UberConservative Americanized Christianity.

Christ they tell us was a decent middle class guy who believed in rapacious Capitalism and the Free Market and who saw the poor as weak, stupid and lazy while praising the wealthy and the powerful who are the true inheritors of Paradise. And besides any soldier killed in these Holy Wars to defend Christianity and Judaism against the Pagan hordes ie Muslims is guaranteed a place close to the Throne Of God.
When put in this context aof Good versus Evil, Jesus Versus the Anti-Christ .
This has become the new Manichean nightmare into which America is insisting on plunging the world into.
How else can America justify its murder of some 1,300,000 Iraqis on the alter of Christian Capitalism.
How else can America justify the abuse, humiliation, torture of tens of thousands of innocent Iraqis and Afghanis etc.
How else can America justify its 1,000 military basis world wide while still building more in Africa, Asia, South America and the Middle East all to what purpose.
Like the British Empire the American governments and its citizens sees the rest of the world as a bunch of of brutes and savages who follow bizarre and absurd religions which are basically forms of Devil Worship.


Afghanistan war logs: Massive leak of secret files exposes truth of occupation Guardian.co.uk, July 25, 2010

• Hundreds of civilians killed by coalition troops
• Covert unit hunts leaders for 'kill or capture'
• Steep rise in Taliban bomb attacks on Nato
• Read the Guardian's full war logs investigation

A huge cache of secret US military files today provides a devastating portrait of the failing war in Afghanistan, revealing how coalition forces have killed hundreds of civilians in unreported incidents, Taliban attacks have soared and Nato commanders fear neighbouring Pakistan and Iran are fuelling the insurgency.

The disclosures come from more than 90,000 records of incidents and intelligence reports about the conflict obtained by the whistleblowers' website Wikileaks in one of the biggest leaks in US military history. The files, which were made available to the Guardian, the New York Times and the German weekly Der Spiegel, give a blow-by-blow account of the fighting over the last six years, which has so far cost the lives of more than 320 British and over 1,000 US troops.

Their publication comes amid mounting concern that Barack Obama's "surge" strategy is failing and as coalition troops hunt for two US navy sailors captured by the Taliban south of Kabul on Friday.

The war logs also detail:

• How a secret "black" unit of special forces hunts down Taliban leaders for "kill or capture" without trial.

• How the US covered up evidence that the Taliban have acquired deadly surface-to-air missiles.

• How the coalition is increasingly using deadly Reaper drones to hunt and kill Taliban targets by remote control from a base in Nevada.

• How the Taliban have caused growing carnage with a massive escalation of its roadside bombing campaign, which has killed more than 2,000 civilians to date.

In a statement, the White House said the chaotic picture painted by the logs was the result of "under-resourcing" under Obama's predecessor, saying: "It is important to note that the time period reflected in the documents is January 2004 to December 2009."

The White House also criticised the publication of the files by Wikileaks: "We strongly condemn the disclosure of classified information by individuals and organisations, which puts the lives of the US and partner service members at risk and threatens our national security. Wikileaks made no effort to contact the US government about these documents, which may contain information that endanger the lives of Americans, our partners, and local populations who co-operate with us."

The logs detail, in sometimes harrowing vignettes, the toll on civilians exacted by coalition forces: events termed "blue on white" in military jargon. The logs reveal 144 such incidents. Some of these casualties come from the controversial air strikes that have led to Afghan government protests in the past, but a large number of previously unknown incidents also appear to be the result of troops shooting unarmed drivers or motorcyclists out of a determination to protect themselves from suicide bombers. At least 195 civilians are admitted to have been killed and 174 wounded in total, although this is likely to be an underestimate because many disputed incidents are omitted from the daily snapshots reported by troops on the ground and then collated, sometimes erratically, by military intelligence analysts.

Bloody errors at civilians' expense, as recorded in the logs, include the day French troops strafed a bus full of children in 2008, wounding eight. A US patrol similarly machine-gunned a bus, wounding or killing 15 of its passengers, and in 2007 Polish troops mortared a village, killing a wedding party including a pregnant woman, in an apparent revenge attack.

Questionable shootings of civilians by British troops also figure. The American compilers detail an unusual cluster of four British shootings in the streets of Kabul within the space of barely a single month, in October/November 2007, culminating in the killing of the son of an Afghan general. Of one shooting, they wrote: "Investigation is controlled by the British. We not able [sic] to get the complete story."

A second cluster of similar shootings, all involving Royal Marine commandos in the ferociously contested Helmand province, took place in a six-month period at the end of 2008. Asked by the Guardian about these allegations, the Ministry of Defence said: "We have been unable to corroborate these claims in the short time available and it would be inappropriate to speculate on specific cases without further verification of the alleged actions."

Rachel Reid, who investigates civilian casualty incidents in Afghanistan for Human Rights Watch, said: "These files bring to light what's been a consistent trend by US and NATO forces: the concealment of civilian casualties. Despite numerous tactical directives ordering transparent investigations when civilians are killed, there have been incidents I've investigated in recent months where this is still not happening. Accountability is not just something you do when you are caught. It should be part of the way US and NATO do business in Afghanistan every time they kill or harm civilians."

The reports, many of which the Guardian is publishing in full online, present an unvarnished and often compelling account of the reality of modern war. Most of the material, although classified "secret" at the time, is no longer militarily sensitive. A small amount of information has been withheld from publication in the Guardian because it might endanger local informants or give away genuine military secrets. Wikileaks, whose founder, Julian Assange, obtained the material in circumstances he will not discuss, also says it redacted harmful material before posting the bulk of the data on its own "uncensorable" series of global servers.

For more see:
Afghanistan War Logs, Guardian.co.uk July 25, 2010

and so it goes,
GORD.

UPDATE: Wikileaks Releases Top Secret Documents ON Afghanistan War Obama Furious About Leaks Not About War Crimes

Wikileaks makes public thousands of government files related to the war in Afghanistan from 2004-2010.
Obama upset over the leak vows to get the culprits rather than deal with America's War Crimes & Crimes Against Humanity!!!
Released at Wikileaks, Guardian,UK, & NY Times

Sunday, July 26 5pm EST.WikiLeaks today released over 75,000 reports covering the war in Afghanistan.

The Afghan War Diaries an extraordinary secret compendium of over 91,000 reports covering the war in Afghanistan from 2004 to 2010. The reports describe the majority of lethal military actions involving the United States military. They include the number of persons internally stated to be killed, wounded, or detained during each action, together with the precise geographical location of each event, and the military units involved and major weapon systems used.

The Afghan War Diaries is the most significant archive about the reality of war to have ever been released during the course of a war. The deaths of tens of thousands is normally only a statistic but this archive reveals locations and key events behind each of these individual deaths. We hope the impact will lead to a comprehensive understanding of the war in Afghanistan and modern warfare in general.

These reports have been primarily written by soldiers and intelligence officers listening to reports radioed in from front line deployments. However the reports also contain related information from Marines intelligence, US Embassies, and reports about corruption and development activity across Afghanistan.

Each report consists of the time and precise geographic location of an event that the US Army considers significant. It includes several additional standardized fields: The broad type of the event (combat, non-combat, propaganda, etc.); the category of the event as classified by US Forces, how many were detained, wounded, and killed from civilian, allied, host nation, and enemy forces; the name of the reporting unit and a number of other fields, the most significant of which is the summary - This is an English language description of the events that are covered in the report.

also see: In Disclosing Secret Documents, WikiLeaks Seeks ‘Transparency’ By ERIC SCHMITT Published: July 25, 2010

and see:
Afghanistan War Logs, Guardian.co.uk July 25, 2010

Afghan Bombshell: WikiLeaks 'War Diary' exposes US cover-up



Obama administration complicit in coverups and complicit in War Crimes-Obama Fail
CNN tries to undermine WIKILEAKS But Fails.
CNN not interested in exposing US & NATO War Crimes & Crimes Against Humanity
White House Furious At WikiLeaks Publishing 'Total History' Of Afghanistan War
MOXNEWSd0tCOM | July 26, 2010

http://MOXNews.com/


Meanwhile Obama bullied by the Neocons such as Bill Kristol, Karl Rove, Fox News, etc. is now planning the bombing and possible occupation of Iran in other words another unjustifiable war. Will those Bombs only kill the bad guys? or will they also blow to pieces whole families or occupied schools or day cares- ah well they tell us the only good Iranian or Iraqi or Afghan is a dead one in this brutal Holy War against Islam.

And now "the Gloves come off" as Cheney once famously said as Obama , Biden, Clinton and the Neo-Liberals (Fascism lite) are pushing for War against Iran based upon more Bogus intel prove they are as eager for was as Bush and Cheney and the Neocons were in thei propaganda and lies about Iraq.
Yes we were here before and it never seems to end no matter who is in power.

Ex-CIA chief: Strike on Iran seems more likely now AP via Washington Post ,July 25, 2010

WASHINGTON -- A former CIA director says military action against Iran now seems more likely because no matter what the U.S. does diplomatically, Tehran keeps pushing ahead with its suspected nuclear program.

Michael Hayden, a CIA chief under President George W. Bush, says that during his tenure a strike was "way down the list" of options. But he tells CNN's "State of the Union" that such action now "seems inexorable."

He predicts Iran will build its program to the point where it's just below having an actual weapon. Hayden says that would be as destabilizing to the region as the real thing.

U.S. officials have said military action remains an option if sanctions fail to deter Iran.

Iran says its nuclear work is for peaceful purposes such as power generation.

also see: Resolution Green-Lighting Israeli Strikes on Iran Introduced by House Republicans By Jamal Abdi July 23, 2010 "Huffington Post"

Republicans in the House of Representatives have introduced a measure that would green-light an Israeli bombing campaign against Iran. The resolution, H.Res. 1553 (in full below), provides explicit support for military strikes against Iran, stating that Congress supports Israel's use of "all means necessary" against Iran "including the use of military force". US military leaders have warned that strikes could be catastrophic to US national security interests and could engulf the Middle East in a "calamitous" regional war.

Nearly a third of House Republicans have signed onto the resolution, which has been publicly discussed and circulated by its lead sponsor, Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX), for months. The National Iranian American Council is leading calls to oppose the measure, urging those concerned to demand that House Republican Leader John Boehner denounce the resolution.

The introduction of the measure coincides with a pattern of renewed calls for military strikes that have escalated since President Obama signed "crippling" Congressional Iran sanctions into law. Neoconservatives who were instrumental in orchestrating the Iraq War, such as Bill Kristol, and Reuel Marc Gerecht, have led the stepped up calls for military action. -

and more bad news for the Obama Administration as thousands of US government files have been made public by Weakileaks, the Guardian UK and the NY Times.
Neocons will be pleased Bush and Obama have shown little or no concern over civilian deaths.

The war is in fact a disaster and Americans are continuing to commit war crimes and slaughtering innocent civilians. All the war crimes committed even under the Bush/Cheney Regime are becoming Obama's since he has refused to hold anyone accountable for these crimes.

Afghanistan war logs: Massive leak of secret files exposes truth of occupation Guardian.co.uk, July 25, 2010

EXCLUSIVE: In one of the biggest security breaches in history secret details have been made public by Wikileaks, alleging "execution squads", an apparent plot to kill President Karzai and previously unreported civilian deaths. In an exclusive Channel 4 News interview Wikileaks editor Julian Assange defends his decision to leak 200,000 pages of classified military data onto the internet.

One of the disturbing elements of this story is that the Obama administration condemns the leaking of facts which show that the Afghanistan war is not going well. Like the former Bush/Cheney regime the administration is only concerned about its public image and shows little or no concern or remorse over the slaughter of innocent civilians by American and NATO troops.

Meanwhile the Pentagon, the Congress and the Whitehouse accompanied by their media echo chamber are ready to take on Iran and kill a few hundred thousand Iranians just to show that Iran is evil and working with the Anti-Christ or some other daft crap. Or some claim Iran was behind the 9/11 attacks and was the main force of resistance in Iraq which is a lot of nonsense. Meanwhile they are building the same bogus case against Iran as they did about Iraq. So like John McCain and Sarah Palin and Newt Gingrich the Obama war mongers can't wait to use a bit of theatrics "shock and Awe" to dazzle and mis direct the public from the fact that Israel has nukes and yet is not criticized for having nukes and will not be criticized for using them in any manner they so choose.

Iran should be allowed to develop nuclear energy resources like any other country.
One theory is that since the overthrow of the American backed ruthless brutal dictator the Shah of Iran and followed by the hostage taking of Americans the USA has wanted to obliterate Iran ever since.

First they encouraged, cajoled and bribed their friendly puppet dictator Saddam to take on a long bloody and indecisive war against Iran. Saddam was supplied with weapons, fighter jets, helicopters weapons , biological weapons, gas etc. by America, France, Britain and Germany primarily but he failed.
Since Saddam failed to defeat or humiliate Iran the USA decided he was no longer a worthwhile asset and he knew too much.


The only hope Iran has is if other Muslim and Arab countries and those nations who believe in the Rule Of Law including International Law are willing to take a stand against America and Israel.

The Rule of Law when it comes to war is clear in its rules and conditions which must be met for one nation to go to war against another. There needs to be either an attack on the other nation or its allies which against illegal, immoral , unjustified" Wars Of Aggression ". Even the United Nations will probably step aside fearing retaliation by the American Empire. Being the only Super Power Americans believe they must show the world that they are not to be fucked with.
This is Real Politik in its most naked and immoral form.

All that matters according to the Neocons and, the Neoliberals who follow in the footsteps of Nietzche is "The Will To Power". Force is all that matters.
In order to maintain America's self-delusions and its corrupt way of life it must be willing to use force while claiming as other Empires have that they are spreading peace, good order and democracy to the world and as an added bonus Evangelical Fundamentalist UberConservative Americanized Christianity.

Christ they tell us was a decent middle class guy who believed in rapacious Capitalism and the Free Market and who saw the poor as weak, stupid and lazy while praising the wealthy and the powerful who are the true inheritors of Paradise. And besides any soldier killed in these Holy Wars to defend Christianity and Judaism against the Pagan hordes ie Muslims is guaranteed a place close to the Throne Of God.
When put in this context aof Good versus Evil, Jesus Versus the Anti-Christ .
This has become the new Manichean nightmare into which America is insisting on plunging the world into.
How else can America justify its murder of some 1,300,000 Iraqis on the alter of Christian Capitalism.
How else can America justify the abuse, humiliation, torture of tens of thousands of innocent Iraqis and Afghanis etc.
How else can America justify its 1,000 military basis world wide while still building more in Africa, Asia, South America and the Middle East all to what purpose.
Like the British Empire the American governments and its citizens sees the rest of the world as a bunch of of brutes and savages who follow bizarre and absurd religions which are basically forms of Devil Worship.


Afghanistan war logs: Massive leak of secret files exposes truth of occupation Guardian.co.uk, July 25, 2010

• Hundreds of civilians killed by coalition troops
• Covert unit hunts leaders for 'kill or capture'
• Steep rise in Taliban bomb attacks on Nato
• Read the Guardian's full war logs investigation

A huge cache of secret US military files today provides a devastating portrait of the failing war in Afghanistan, revealing how coalition forces have killed hundreds of civilians in unreported incidents, Taliban attacks have soared and Nato commanders fear neighbouring Pakistan and Iran are fuelling the insurgency.

The disclosures come from more than 90,000 records of incidents and intelligence reports about the conflict obtained by the whistleblowers' website Wikileaks in one of the biggest leaks in US military history. The files, which were made available to the Guardian, the New York Times and the German weekly Der Spiegel, give a blow-by-blow account of the fighting over the last six years, which has so far cost the lives of more than 320 British and over 1,000 US troops.

Their publication comes amid mounting concern that Barack Obama's "surge" strategy is failing and as coalition troops hunt for two US navy sailors captured by the Taliban south of Kabul on Friday.

The war logs also detail:

• How a secret "black" unit of special forces hunts down Taliban leaders for "kill or capture" without trial.

• How the US covered up evidence that the Taliban have acquired deadly surface-to-air missiles.

• How the coalition is increasingly using deadly Reaper drones to hunt and kill Taliban targets by remote control from a base in Nevada.

• How the Taliban have caused growing carnage with a massive escalation of its roadside bombing campaign, which has killed more than 2,000 civilians to date.

In a statement, the White House said the chaotic picture painted by the logs was the result of "under-resourcing" under Obama's predecessor, saying: "It is important to note that the time period reflected in the documents is January 2004 to December 2009."

The White House also criticised the publication of the files by Wikileaks: "We strongly condemn the disclosure of classified information by individuals and organisations, which puts the lives of the US and partner service members at risk and threatens our national security. Wikileaks made no effort to contact the US government about these documents, which may contain information that endanger the lives of Americans, our partners, and local populations who co-operate with us."

The logs detail, in sometimes harrowing vignettes, the toll on civilians exacted by coalition forces: events termed "blue on white" in military jargon. The logs reveal 144 such incidents. Some of these casualties come from the controversial air strikes that have led to Afghan government protests in the past, but a large number of previously unknown incidents also appear to be the result of troops shooting unarmed drivers or motorcyclists out of a determination to protect themselves from suicide bombers. At least 195 civilians are admitted to have been killed and 174 wounded in total, although this is likely to be an underestimate because many disputed incidents are omitted from the daily snapshots reported by troops on the ground and then collated, sometimes erratically, by military intelligence analysts.

Bloody errors at civilians' expense, as recorded in the logs, include the day French troops strafed a bus full of children in 2008, wounding eight. A US patrol similarly machine-gunned a bus, wounding or killing 15 of its passengers, and in 2007 Polish troops mortared a village, killing a wedding party including a pregnant woman, in an apparent revenge attack.

Questionable shootings of civilians by British troops also figure. The American compilers detail an unusual cluster of four British shootings in the streets of Kabul within the space of barely a single month, in October/November 2007, culminating in the killing of the son of an Afghan general. Of one shooting, they wrote: "Investigation is controlled by the British. We not able [sic] to get the complete story."

A second cluster of similar shootings, all involving Royal Marine commandos in the ferociously contested Helmand province, took place in a six-month period at the end of 2008. Asked by the Guardian about these allegations, the Ministry of Defence said: "We have been unable to corroborate these claims in the short time available and it would be inappropriate to speculate on specific cases without further verification of the alleged actions."

Rachel Reid, who investigates civilian casualty incidents in Afghanistan for Human Rights Watch, said: "These files bring to light what's been a consistent trend by US and NATO forces: the concealment of civilian casualties. Despite numerous tactical directives ordering transparent investigations when civilians are killed, there have been incidents I've investigated in recent months where this is still not happening. Accountability is not just something you do when you are caught. It should be part of the way US and NATO do business in Afghanistan every time they kill or harm civilians."

The reports, many of which the Guardian is publishing in full online, present an unvarnished and often compelling account of the reality of modern war. Most of the material, although classified "secret" at the time, is no longer militarily sensitive. A small amount of information has been withheld from publication in the Guardian because it might endanger local informants or give away genuine military secrets. Wikileaks, whose founder, Julian Assange, obtained the material in circumstances he will not discuss, also says it redacted harmful material before posting the bulk of the data on its own "uncensorable" series of global servers.

For more see:
Afghanistan War Logs, Guardian.co.uk July 25, 2010

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BP & The Sopranos & Rachel Maddow & Obam's Good Week Overshadowed by the Shirley Sherrod Fox News Bogus Accusations

Rachel Maddow On BP trying to buy scientists for its defense
also see The Obama Paradox - How the Shirley Sherrod debacle over shadowed the good news from the White House- Sherrod was fired over bogus accusations created by the all-powerful Fox News McCarthyites-They claimed she is a racist but as usual Fox News takes her remarks out of context-she was relating how she realized in 1983 that the struggle was not just for poor blacks but for all of the poor .

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More bad news for BP
BP's Stealth Oil Plumes which they said didn't exist
Researchers Confirm Subsea Gulf Oil Plumes Are From BP Well By Sara Kennedy via Truthout from McClatcy NewsPapers July 23, 2010

St. Petersburg, Fla. - Through a chemical fingerprinting process, University of South Florida researchers have definitively linked clouds of underwater oil in the northern Gulf of Mexico to BP's runaway Deepwater Horizon well — the first direct scientific link between the subsurface oil clouds commonly known as "plumes" and the BP oil spill, USF officials said Friday.

Until now, scientists had circumstantial evidence, but lacked that definitive scientific link.

The announcement came on the same day that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced that its researchers have confirmed the existence of the subsea plumes at depths of 3,300 to 4,300 feet below the surface of the Gulf. NOAA said its detection equipment also implicated the BP well in the plumes' creation.

Together, the two studies confirm what in the early days of the spill was denied by BP and viewed skeptically by NOAA's chief — that much of the crude that gushed from the Deepwater Horizon well stayed beneath the surface of the water.

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