American Secrets: The Wikileaks Files

You may or may not have heard about the recent troubles with Wikilieaks, a website that provides the public with once-secret information.

 Julian Assange (below), the founder of Wikileaks appears to be in big doo doo, due to the fact that his website leaked Iraq war logs.

I personally do not think that Assange did anything wrong, but he seems to be wanted.

But what is the big deal about the logs, you ask?

These Iraq war logs have information that is rather shocking.

It's obvious as to why they would want to keep them secret.

BUT THEY'RE NOT SO SECRET ANYMORE!!

AND HERE THEY ARE:

(According to Telegraph.co.uk)

  

• More than 15,000 previously unrecorded deaths where found within the  logs. 
• The logs revealed 109,032 deaths between January 2004 and December 2009. 
• The database records the following death counts: 66,081 civilians, 23,984 insurgents and 15,196 Iraqi security forces.
• 2 Iraqi detainees claim to have been punched and kicked by British soldiers. Both suffered injuries that were consistent with their claims, but no investigations were documented.

• U.S. troops accidentally attacked British troops on 11 different occasions!!

1.   A commando with the Royal Marines was shot and wounded in one.
2.   U.S. troops with no night vision goggles on and iPods blasting in their ears began firing on a British patrol.

• Soldiers had to watch for Iranian rockets with "neuroparalytic" agents as Iran was giving Iraq chemical weapons to attack U.S. targets and civilians.
• U.S. soldiers killed innocent civilians at checkpoints on the road.

1.   On one incident it September 2005, they shot and killed a man and woman, and wounded their children when their vehicle failed to stop.

• Prisoners report that they were shackled, blindfolded, and hung by their ankles and wrists. They reported being beaten. Among these prisoners were women and children!!

• U.S. troops handed over their captives to the "Wolf Brigade" torture squad, an infamous and feared unit controlled by the Iraq ministry of interior. 

And these are just a few things that I picked out personally.

There was more.

Way more.

The U.S. military denied all torture allegations, and said that they did not under-report the civilian deaths.

If these documents were so important, then how were they able to be leaked in the first place?

They aren't some nude photos of some irresponsible celebrity.

 THEY'RE IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS!!

WAR LOGS!!

Is the government trying to make themselves and the crooked soldiers (not all of them, I support the troops!!) who committed these awful crimes to look like angels?

 Or trying to make the war seem less gruesome than it is over something so pointless?

They obviously weren't that important to anyone if they're now on the internet for all the world to see.

Someone wasn't doing their job.

And why so secretive anyway?

Shouldn't the people, THE CITIZENS of the United States of America be provided with all information, good and bad, that is relevant to our country, meaning relevant to our lives?

  

We live here.

Any and all information is relevant to us.

Just for making it so secretive after the media exposed this "scandal," the people want to know more EVEN MORE now.

The government seem to dig their own graves.

Then they want to point the finger when things go wrong.

OWN UP TO YOUR MISTAKES!!

As Judge Judy would say, "You were too irresponsible."

As in, too irresponsible to keep important documents "safe" (from the citizens of the country (or countries) that they're about.)

Now they want to attack Julian Assange for THEIR irresponsible behavior.

Assange was simply doing for the public what the government won't.

And that's simply PROVIDING INFORMATION.

Why was all of this hidden all these years?

Lastly, why all of a sudden is Interpol out to get Assange RIGHT WHEN all this other drama is unfolding?

They are apparently either after him for the rape of two Swedish women, or for having a condom break during consensual sex and either failing to tell his partner or not complying when asked to stop.

But why is it now that these charges are arising?

Maybe because the two women (who claim to be raped on separate occasions) did not know Assange, and now with all the negative publicity he's been getting, recognize him on the news?

Maybe the cases were thought of as too petty until they found out that he has a name? 

Or maybe Interpol and the U.S. government want him so bad that they're working with foreign countries to get him?

Who knows?

He could be some crazy sex fiend, however.

He is supposedly living in England at the moment.

If he has committed these crimes, and if leaking important documents is so wrong, then why hasn't he been arrested yet?

They were so quick to arrest Martha Stewart.