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There are rumors that wikileaks is an elaborate intelligence psy-ops to deflect attention from the real issues in Afghanistan. Sorry, but if you focus in this parallel world long enough, you take everything with a pinch of salt.
The Pentagon Papers came out in 1971, by which time it was quite certain and clear to all that the USA was losing the Vietnam war, and that the Nixon administration was committed to withdrawing from Vietnam. The Pentagon Papers covering information from 1945--67 was thus flogging a dead horse in terms of the all important state decision making mechanism in relation to Vietnam strategically........if it had come out in 1965, that would have been far more useful. Then possibly no 4 million Vietnamese dead, Cambodia destabilized, with Pol Pot waiting in the wings.....and unofficially 150,000 Americans killed/MIA..........flood of narcotics enmasse into the USA.......3 million vets lounging about in the USA, as social outcasts
The wikileaks revelations are also good because its gives us a glimpse of the "truth" in Afghanistan.........that rather then being a noble cause of fighting "bad evil people out to destroy America" Marvel comic strip narrative, the American occupation of Afghanistan is in stark reality a war crime carried out on a daily basis by many American/NATO soldiers in that hapless poverty stricken 4th world nation, vulnerable and exploited over 30 years by American geo-strategic machinations/scheming ( The Bear trap.....Operation Cyclone......creation of Taliban in 1994) through the services of the Pakistani military.
Finally Wikileaks is a VERY IMPORTANT RELEASE, A CATHARSIS for "Good Americans".......who otherwise through troubled conscience might either do harm to themselves as thousands upon thousands are doing now in Afghanistan...........good pure Americans........or to their colleagues as Colonel Kurtz like figures. Wikileaks affords "Good Americans" to do their bit for their conscience and America in a righteous wholesome, noble, constructive manner.
On the other hand the wikileaks revelations might under the cover of selling us "The truth which the government doesn't want you to know, but we beat them to it" may in fact be reinforcing OFFICIAL GOVERNMENT PROPAGANDA...........innocently or if you are of the more paranoiac disposition with malice a fore thought.
The 91,000 out of the 250,000 leaks reveal to us amongst other things that OBL was in Quetta Pakistan, still alive and "al-Qaeda" is thus very active. In this simple specific revelation and leak wikileaks whilst purporting to SUPPORT AN ANTIWAR AGENDA and shine a beacon of light on the truth is in fact JUSTIFYING AND BOLSTERING THE OFFICIAL GOVERNMENT NARRATIVE of "al-Qaeda" the global menace is waiting in the wings safe in Pakistan, organizing and fighting, just like Saleem Shahzad from Pakistan the NY fizzle bomber. Mullen, Hilary and all the rest chip/chime in and reinforce with this latest wikileaks revelation.
We who do not possess wikileaks organizational and networking capabilities with access to certain Western governments, and STATE classified information of the highest order from the sole superpower on earth have asserted with our meager humble assertions for years that "al-Qaeda" is a fake front organisation of Western and Israeli intelligence; nothing more.
Osama Bin Laden the possible crypto-Jew ancestrally hailing from Yemen was recruited by Western Intelligence in the late 1970's to early 1980's.....a man from the elite of Saudi commercial society whose father made billions in the construction business....and became closely allied to Western business concerns related to the Bush family and others, INTIMATELY. Yes there are millions of Jews who could easily pass as Arabs. Many Middle East regimes may be run by crypto-Jews as with the case of the Western world..............in countries such Libya, Saudi Arabia, Gulf countries, Iran and of course Turkey..........if you are wondering about the strange silence of especially Arab countries in the face of Israeli genocide against fellow Arabs.
We can even reveal Osama's code name whilst he worked for Western intelligence to the end.........TIM OSMAN
Here he is wearing an US army jacket. You would think that a man purportedly at war with the West...Marvel comic strip style, would be a little conscious of his clothes and appearance.
Here he is with a small part of his huge extended family, and a few Western ladies.
Many of us have argued that "al-Qaeda" is a fake intelligence front of Western Intelligence and Israel:
"The truth is, there is no Islamic army or terrorist group called Al Qaida. And any informed intelligence officer knows this. But there is a propaganda campaign to make the public believe in the presence of an identified entity representing the 'devil' only in order to drive the TV watcher to accept an unified international leadership for a war against terrorism. The country behind this propaganda is the US . . ." -- Former British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook.
non-existent "al-Qaeda" therefore...2+2 =4 didn't carry out 9/11. Israel with their Jewish agents in NY, and in the security apparatus of America must have. Then the whole basis of war against Afghanistan, Iraq, and the low intensity war against Pakistan is BOGUS............Then it means several prominent Jews (neo-cons) Crypto-Jews, and their gentile "lackeys for the Shekel" must have committed HIGH TREASON against the USA, and war crimes in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Crypto-Jews in the Middle East
Another significant ommision by wikileaks which explains America's real desire to be in Afghanistan for a good many more years is Afghan heroin, again an issue the alternative crowd have been talking about extensively for many years. Put simply the Taliban eliminated Afghan Opium/Heroin by 2001, but since that time after the American occupation the production of Afghan Opium/heroin has sky-rocketed.
Many "creative" explanations have been provided for this anomaly by American officials, but the reality seems to be that besides fighting the dreaded "al-Qaeda" and the ISI controlled Taliban, the main "business" of the American armed forces in Afghanistan is harvesting the Opium and exporting to the USA, North America generally, Europe, Russia, Iran, Central Asia, Pakistan.....and even India. It is estimated by some alternative writers that the American criminal fraternity in the American armed forces, allied with the civilian underlings are making between $50--80 billion from Afghan Opium/heroin.
It will allow Hilary Clinton to buy a $50 million mansion in an exclusive area.
These demented American criminals will have the added S/M pleasure of hearing, watching Afghan civilians squeal, squeak and suffer under the evil American occupation, whilst being simultaneously shafted by them under the guise of being a benevolent occupier out to nation build. Presumably that is why so many American servicemen choose to "opt out" in a variety of ways rather than continue serving with such a military force.
Wikileaks is there of course to publish governments papers which publicize government irregularity and illegality. It does not exist to discredit and change specific government policy. OK. But leaking also has its own agenda's....good and bad.
The average American moron is not really going to connect with selective images of war crimes by American forces in far away, and really not relevant in my life Afghanistan. Brown people, poor fourth world people living in mud huts, with strange clothes, customs and language. For them, it can be explained away in their conscience that stuff happens in war....what can you do? People can be desensitised to war, as a distant disconnected spectacle, that might be vaguely fun or not as the case may be.
The Abu Gharaib revelations didn't fundamentally move American society where it mattered, but merely lowered the stature of the USA in the world. Do pure criminals and Hilary really give a figs leaf about America's image. American troops are still in Iraq, running one of the worst none-regime failed states in the world, and they are hoping to be in Afghanistan harvesting the Opium for a few more good years. Yeeehaaa........running one of the worst none-regime failed states in the world.
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Bradley Manning’s Gift
Leaked documents spill the Afghan beans
by Justin Raimondo at antiwar.comThey said the huge cache of classified documents – including 250,000 diplomatic messages passed from US embassies around the world to Washington – was a fantasy, “boasting” by Pfc. Bradley Manning, the intelligence analyst who gave Wikileaks that video of US soldiers laughing and shouting “good shot!” as they mowed down Iraqi civilians. The “hi tech” media, especially Wired magazine, did everything they could do discredit and smear him, including spreading rumors about his alleged sexuality. Now, with the release of over 91,000 internal US government communications, intelligence analyses and incident reports via Wikileaks, the motive behind the determined effort to smear Manning and shut down Wikileaks is all too apparent.
The Guardian provides a helpful interactive map, in which you click on a location and read the “incident report.” Of course, you’re reading a selection of what the Guardian editors consider important, but it looks to me like their news judgment isn’t bad at all, because the first one I clicked on was an intelligence report detailing meetings of the Taliban with Osama bin Laden in Quetta, Pakistan, and in villages on the border with Afghanistan. So, bin Laden is not only alive, but they know where he is. I guess when Hillary was hectoring the Pakistanis about the whereabouts of bin Laden, the subtext was: “If we know, then you must know, too!”
A good number of the incident reports are those that detail civilian casualties, which don’t seem to have been reported by our own “embedded journalists”: the title of this one, “Five in car, including toddler, machine-gunned by patrol,” is typical of what the reader has in store. Here’s another: “Special forces wound two, kill six, including young girl, plus donkey and chickens.” There are hundreds of such reports, detailing slaughters both horrifying (“56 civilians killed in NATO bombing”) and pathetic (“Practice shell kills child and 10 sheep, injures shepherd”).
What’s particularly bad, from the perspective of the Obama administration officials charged with selling this war to the American people, is the dramatic portrayal of the sheer chaos enveloping our military effort, such as this one, entitled “Border police high on opium’ in shoot-out.” Oh, and by the way, the Taliban is apparently armed with portable heat-seeking missiles – a fact the administration has been covering up.
Like all raw intelligence, however, I would take some of these “revelations” with a very large grain of salt, such as one report that says a top bin Laden adviser flew to North Korea to buy weapons. And there are several reports of the Pakistani army setting up suicide attacks on US forces – alongside tales of cooperation between the two militaries.
What we are getting from these logs – and we have just begun to mine this rich lode of information – is a truer picture of the war in Afghanistan than our government, and our “mainstream” media, have been willing to give us. Now that our eyes are being opened to the cover-up of countless civilian casualties, the truth about our “allies,” and the mystery behind the continued ability of bin Laden to “elude” us, let us decide if this is truly a just war, a war worth fighting – and going bankrupt over. And I mean moral bankruptcy as well as financial.
The importance of Bradley Manning’s gift to the American people cannot be overestimated – and there is probably more coming – like those 250,000 US diplomatic messages (i.e., the history of American shenanigans abroad for the past few years, at least). It will take time to analyze all this material, and present it to our readers, but that is my task in the coming days, and a job the staff of Antiwar.com staff is taking up with alacrity.
The release of the logs also brings into focus the Manning case, and its importance – really, at this point, its centrality – to all those opposed to our foreign policy of global intervention. Bradley is sitting in a jail in Kuwait, right now, being interrogated and, who knows, perhaps even tortured, within an inch of his life. This is intolerable. He is a hero, not a traitor: he is giving us the truth about what we’re doing in Afghanistan, and around the world. We should thank him for this priceless gift by working tirelessly to free him.
