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Originally Posted by ASU2003
I'm not really sure what they are trying to do with these documents. The people who are against the war already knows most of the stuff, the people for the war won't care. Is there any 'real' news here? Did wikileaks pick some of the 'best' documents? Do any of these documents point any fingers of people high-up giving orders to violate the law or knowingly mislead Americans?
Just because the military withheld some information in order to win a conflict is not wrong.
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I am pretty sure that these documents are just there to give the armchair commandos/militant anti-war protesters something to throw around and say, "We were right, na-na, we were right!"
I'm going to state this again, anyone who thinks we can wage a war in this modern age without collateral damage (i.e. civilians killed, structures destroyed, local economy damage) is an idiot. Wars have been fought since day one of human history and not one of them have been free of this kind of damage/killing. People all over history who had said, "I just want to raise my family and tend to my farm/house/business, not get caught up in this needless war" have been killed for just being in the wrong place at the wrong time/side/location/ect.
The people who actually believe the news media spin about how these last two wars were "justified" and free of collateral damage to the local populace are
not going to read these documents (or change their minds about it either). The people that are against the war are going to wave these documents around and yell about murder, genocide, big govement, and the rest of the bad things they yell about in rallies across the world. They are already set in the mindframe of "war is bad no matter the reason or who is fighting it".
Basically, nothing is going to change.
The people smart enough to understand what these documents entail, already know that we shouldn't be fighting these wars. The people dumb enough to believe the news media's take on this, won't read it because the news told them not to.
I'm not sure why people are happy these documents are going to be released, it isn't like the government is going to step up and say, "Aw hell, guess you found us out. Alright boys, pack it up, let's get on out of here."
When that happens, I'll be the first to say, "Well shit, I guess I was wrong."
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I'm against the war and don't think we should be fighting it. Just throwing that out there.