24-10-2010, 01:19 PM
The US spooks were clearly well prepared for the latest Wikileaks spectacular. My guess is their preference was that the logs remain hidden. But ... having recognised the inevitability of them being published and knowing their contents (if not having planted suitably massaged versions), in the the well tried and trusted methodology of these things, they effectively co-opted the release.
Still not sure this applies to the Wikileaks operation itself - though my guess is that its systems at least are now irredeemably penetrated - but they are clearly making the bast possible use of the release:
1. Total casualties 15,000 to 120,000 ish - when we know the true figure is probably well in excess of a million deaths, plus 4 milliona refugees, orphans etc.
2. The Iraqis themselves committed the vast majority of the atrocities with the gallant US military doing their level best to stop it.
3. The Iranians were the evil hidden hand behind pretty much all the bad stuff that has happened.
And the MSM naturally lap it up.
Cryptome is well worth reading on the co-option of the Wikileaks project. Their obsession with secrecy and money is - or will be - their undoing.
Still not sure this applies to the Wikileaks operation itself - though my guess is that its systems at least are now irredeemably penetrated - but they are clearly making the bast possible use of the release:
1. Total casualties 15,000 to 120,000 ish - when we know the true figure is probably well in excess of a million deaths, plus 4 milliona refugees, orphans etc.
2. The Iraqis themselves committed the vast majority of the atrocities with the gallant US military doing their level best to stop it.
3. The Iranians were the evil hidden hand behind pretty much all the bad stuff that has happened.
And the MSM naturally lap it up.
Cryptome is well worth reading on the co-option of the Wikileaks project. Their obsession with secrecy and money is - or will be - their undoing.
Peter Presland
".....there is something far worse than Nazism, and that is the hubris of the Anglo-American fraternities, whose routine is to incite indigenous monsters to war, and steer the pandemonium to further their imperial aims"
Guido Preparata. Preface to 'Conjuring Hitler'[size=12][size=12]
"Never believe anything until it has been officially denied"
Claud Cockburn
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".....there is something far worse than Nazism, and that is the hubris of the Anglo-American fraternities, whose routine is to incite indigenous monsters to war, and steer the pandemonium to further their imperial aims"
Guido Preparata. Preface to 'Conjuring Hitler'[size=12][size=12]
"Never believe anything until it has been officially denied"
Claud Cockburn
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