WikiLeaks Releases Cache of 400,000 Iraq War Documents 676
Caelesto writes "Today around 21:00 GMT, WikiLeaks declared an end to their media embargo of over 400,000 Iraq War documents after Al Jazeera released their story 30 minutes ahead of schedule. These documents, which have been kept under wraps by WikiLeaks for months, may reveal tortures and murders ignored by coalition forces during the fighting and occupation in Iraq. The Pentagon maintained that releasing these documents represented a danger to US troops, but already dozens of news outlets are scrambling to report on what could be a devastating blow to the US Armed Forces' already tattered image." Reader Entropy98 points to the BBC's coverage, as well. If you care to download the collection of files, it's available as a torrent.
Good Direct Link (Score:2, Funny)
It is getting WorldDotted at the moment though.
Re:Wow (Score:4, Funny)
cappp (1822388) writes on Friday October 22, @09:38PM: "It's a fact that I spent the morning having one of my best orgasms in a while. It's also a fact that I was jerking off."
The internet never forgets. You are screwed if you ever want to run for office. And you will be doing the screwing *ducks*
Re:Wow (Score:5, Funny)
You should never Slashdot after a few pints
Jerking off probably isnt the best example of a fact
My presidential slogan "Capp, He Jacks Off So You Don't Get Fucked" probably needs some revision
Re:Facebook Censoring Torrent Link (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah at least the Libyans are trustworthy.
Re:the US and Israel butchers assassins torturers (Score:2, Funny)
You broke it, you bought it
- Colin Powell
Colin 'Saddam Hussein has WMDs, honest' Powell. LOL.
Re:Wow (Score:5, Funny)
I'm pretty sure that would be Masters and Johnson.
You know, you're right about that. Johnson and Johnson is the manufacturer of hand lotion.
No idea how I got those two confused.
Thanks.
Re:Wow (Score:5, Funny)
America: Better in some ways than Russia
You should start an advertising company.
Drink Dioxin! It's less poisonous the strychnine.
Re:The irony... (Score:2, Funny)
That is not irony.
Will you Americans and Canadians stop using this fine word?
Actually it makes you sound really smart so keep on using it. (- irony)
That's not irony either anonymous. That's sarcasm.
Oh, I get it. You're being ironic.
irony, n.
1. A figure of speech in which the intended meaning is the opposite of that expressed by the words used; usually taking the form of sarcasm or ridicule in which laudatory expressions are used to imply condemnation or contempt.
Re:I've never given money to a web site before (Score:2, Funny)
Soldiers are not just soldiers, they are what they are trained to be, those that fail the training are unsuitable and are discharged. You can train a honourable army that operates upon a basis of integrity and a resistance to killing, with a preference for capturing. The US instead appears to have abandoned honour and integrity and gone for an unbalanced desire to destroy and kill, creating a psychopathic military not by accident but as a desired goal and then going on to release those unstable service personnel back into the civilian population many of whom go on to be law en'FORCE'ment officers with a history police brutality.
The US military apparently have a secret history of using brutality, torture and random slaughter to subjugate troublesome populations all artfully hidden by propaganda distributed by a willing accomplice in mass media, where slaughter is reported like a sports score and any hint of scandal apart from the random scapegoat is hidden and not discussed.
It is now pretty clear why the US government wanted to hide the last of the documents, it should also be pretty clear to the rest of the democratic world why the documents had to get out and why the rest of humanity was entitled to know exactly why kind of threat is presented by the US military.