On Tue, 27 Jul 2010 22:08:19 -0400, wrote:

On Tue, 27 Jul 2010 21:08:02 -0400, bpuharic wrote:

what particular aspect of these documents comes as news to you?

because NO ONE is surprised by ANYTHING in those documents.

Most of these documents have not even be read and analysed yet but it
certainly seems to be making the government nervous.

incidentally you might want to read this:


http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/07/2...ex.html?hpt=T1

CNN: What do you make of the disclosures in the WikiLeaks documents?

Fareed Zakaria: I think the reaction has been vastly overdone. Frankly
I think it was overdone by the three newspapers that published them
and then by the rest of the media. This has been compared by almost
everybody involved to the Pentagon Papers. They are in fact nothing
like that.

CNN: How were the Pentagon Papers different?

Zakaria: The Pentagon Papers was a secret report commissioned by the
highest levels of government to assess how the war was going in
Vietnam. What it revealed was that the government, at the very highest
level, had been deceiving itself and the American people about the
progress of the war, and that the war was in fact going much, much
worse than the public had been led to believe.

What the war logs show is nothing like that at all. They provide a lot
of granular detail about the complexities of fighting a
counterinsurgency war.
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which is pretty much what i said....

as opposed to your hysteria in comparing these to the pentagon papers