Topic: Wiki Leaks strikes again

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,724845,00.html

This time more than 390.000 documents of the iraq-war exposed!

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Re: Wiki Leaks strikes again

I proclaim a fatwa on Assange! He shall never know peace!

" But the military that withdrew after seven years of war was a demoralized force that had long since ceased to believe in the noble goals of the campaign.

The documents faithfully reflect this change. In the roughly 400,000 documents, the word "democracy" appears only eight times. The "improvised explosive devices" which instilled fear in the hearts of American soldiers, however, are mentioned 146,895 times."

LOL you'd think we lost or something

"But there is one key difference between the Afghanistan war logs and these: The Iraq reports are all from a war that had already been officially declared as having been won. George W. Bush, the US president and commander in chief at the time, declared on May 1, 2003 on the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln that "major combat operations in Iraq have ended." The field reports show that his statement proved to be untrue for years to come."

There was no major combat in Iraq between 2003 and 2010.  Guess the Germans forgot their own history.

The core joke of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is that of course no civilization would develop personal computers with instant remote database recovery, and then waste this technology to find good drinks.
Steve Jobs has ruined this joke.

Re: Wiki Leaks strikes again

In another case, in February 2007, an Apache helicopter shot and killed two Iraqi men believed to have been firing mortars, even though they made surrendering motions, because, according to a military lawyer cited in the report,

The core joke of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is that of course no civilization would develop personal computers with instant remote database recovery, and then waste this technology to find good drinks.
Steve Jobs has ruined this joke.

Re: Wiki Leaks strikes again

This is a most boring leak. It appears a lot of stuff has been redacted anyway.

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