WikiLeaks Founder Describes Possibility of Casualties as Acceptable Risk

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July 27: Founder and editor of the WikiLeaks website, Julian Assange, faces the media during a debate event, held in London.

Any U.S. and allied casualties that result from the publication of classified Afghan war documents would be an acceptable risk, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange suggested Monday, saying "such information is also likely to save a great many lives." 

U.S. military officials have warned about the danger posed to Afghan informants and others since Assange released 76,000 once-secret war documents. The founder of the whistleblower website says he will publish the remaining 15,000 documents within a month despite more warnings from the U.S. government. 

This guy needs to catch an iridium pellet from a Soviet umbrella gun, if you know what I am saying.  I think you do.

Labels: jerks

# posted by Ingineer66 @ 8/16/2010 04:31:00 PM 5 Comments

Afghanistan war: Deadly ambush of medical mission roils one of safest provinces

The Taliban claimed responsibility for the ambush of a medical mission that killed six Americans, one Briton, one German, and two Afghans. The attack highlights the difficulty of limiting the reach of insurgent activity in the Afghanistan war.

The six Americans, one Briton, one German, and three Afghans, were returning from a two-week mission providing eye treatment in Nuristan Province. All were found shot in Badakhshan Province except for one of the Afghans, who escaped.

It is time to shit or get off the pot in Afghanistan.  All of the money and lives that we have spent there trying to gain the hearts and minds of the people and this is what we get.  I say we either send Osama Bin Ladin a CNN reporter to tell him he won and we are giving up or we cut the binders off our military and send them in to fight a real war and we will worry about rebuilding the country when we are done.  Line up every single person in the country and ask them if they support the Taliban or if they want to send their daughters to school and have clean drinking water.  If they say Taliban then shoot them.  It may take 300,000 troops and a bunch of airplanes and bombs but this letting the locals fight our fight for us so we don't piss anybody off is just going to extend our misery and cost us more money and more US boys lives.

We whipped Germany and Japan at the same time within 4 years and now after 9 years we can't even hunt down and kill a rag tag group of people that most of the local population does not even like?  WTF?  We weren't worried about offending Buddhist sensibilities when we bombed Japan.  This whole politically correct half hearted war is not doing anybody any good.  The only thing these people understand is brute force and that is what we need to show them if we really intend to win this war.

Labels: Afghanistan, Taliban

# posted by Ingineer66 @ 8/07/2010 08:08:00 AM 4 Comments