Afgan "Warlogs" leak to the media

**Arreo** · 07-25-10, 06:04 PM

This is a giant leak of US millitary documents that Wikileaks obtained. I'll let them explain a bit:

WikiLeaks has released a document set called the Afghan War Diary (AWD), an extraordinary compendium of over 91,000 reports covering the war in Afghanistan from 2004 to 2010.

The reports, while written by soldiers and intelligence officers mainly describing lethal military actions involving the United States military, also include intelligence information, reports of meetings with political figures, and related detail.

This is a massive amount of information about just about everything about the war in Afghanistan. It's interesting reading if you have time.

http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Afghan_War_Diary,_2004-2010
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/world/war-logs.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/seri...n-the-war-logs

**Arreo** · 07-25-10, 06:12 PM

Basically what these documents show is that the war in Afghanistan is far from won and is a great deal more desprite then is has been previously painted by the meedia.

One of the things that struck me is that the Taliban has access to a number of sophisticated heat-seeking missiles that they are using against coalition aircraft. This has not been told to the media until now even though these SAMs have been used to shoot down aircraft.

**triggerhappy2005** · 07-25-10, 07:43 PM

These must be fake. According to commander, the enemy is almost gone and the populace loves us for the schools we built as well as for our American brand of democracy.

**CivilWars** · 07-25-10, 07:46 PM

At this point we need to set a drop dead date to pull out of Iraq and Afghanistan, and do it regardless of what type of mess they are still in. At some point they have to choose the path they want to take to recovery.

**Arreo** · 07-25-10, 07:55 PM

At some point we need to nut up and tell Pakistan to deal with the Taliban or we'll do it for them. I mean their intelligence service is providing material and intel aid to the Taliban and yet we are paying them upwards of a billion dollars to help us in the "war on terror".

**Consultant** · 07-26-10, 12:24 AM

Why in the world would the Media skew the Afghan war as more positive than it really is...that makes absolutely no sense...the media likes when wars go poorly...if it bleeds, it leads.

Oh wait...it was their guy who emphasized how vital this whole deal is...and how we have to stay there, and do some troop surging...

**Muqtar SGT_Clintok** · 07-26-10, 05:45 AM

LOL........ everytime Wiki Leaks posts more classified information out on their site, Bradley Manning gets another 13 months.

I know the info comes from all over the place, but the Govt has their teeth squarely into his ass right now. You know he is thinking, come on guys, just hold off till they sentence me.....

Game over for that chump

**triggerhappy2005** · 07-26-10, 08:10 AM

Chump? He didn't leak anything that endangered the US. He just embarrassed the military and this is how they respond. Sad.

@Arreo. No amount of 'nutting up' will help. The relationship that the ISS and Taliban share is way too deep for our perceived imperialism to affect. They're basically family. It's about cutting losses and leaving. Not every problem has a solution.

@Consultant. The media likes anything negative, that's what sells, nothing new there. Nice edit btw.

**~~hawgballs~~** · 07-26-10, 08:17 AM

How dare he disprove the officials denial that they killed over half a dozen men (2 of them reuters cameramen) and wounding two children with a leaked video, all unarmed...... Sounds like a real chump to me.