Fox News- WikiLeaks to Release Documents
WikiLeaks will not release the origin of where these recent "secret" Iraq war documents came from but, in them include information about 15,000 more deaths of Iraqi's than originally accounted for.
In 2006 and 2007, the Bush administration and military commanders often played down the extent of civilian carnage from revenge killings, blood feuds and mob-style violence in Iraq, much of which had no direct effect on U.S. forces.
Well, we're at war. Of course Bush and others would play this down. They had to with all the criticism they were receiving. It's their job to protect our troops. This is war.
At a news conference in London on Saturday, WikiLeaks said it would soon publish 15,000 additional secret Afghan war documents. The group has published some 77,000 U.S. intelligence reports about the war in Afghanistan in addition to the almost 400,000 alleged secret U.S. documents about the Iraq war.
Allegations of torture and brutality by Shiite-dominated security forces — mostly against Sunni prisoners — were widely reported during the most violent years of the war, when the rival Islamic sects turned on one another in Baghdad and other cities. The leaked documents provide a ground's-eye view of abuses as reported by U.S. military personnel to their superiors and appear to corroborate much of the past reporting on such incidents.
I'm not sure what the consequences will be by releasing these documents. The enemy may use them as propaganda. The media will just continue to do the same thing they've been doing, using this to slam Bush, I'm sure.
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