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What Wilileaks Proves this Weekend
by Steve White
By now you have heard about the massive 'document dump' staged by the owner and founder of Wikileaks, Julian Assange. The documents are being pawed over by the usual leftist crowd, including the New York Times and the Guardian, with the hope of finding documents that will embarrass the United States.
The NYT has published several articles about these documents this weekend that we point to at the Burg, and they in turn point to several original source documents, to which we also point.
Why?
It is not because we have secretly joined the Kos Kiddies, nor have we developed a sudden admiration for the NYT.
| To be fair, they do have a few very good reporters. It's just that the others, and the editorial staff, far prefer really good creative writing. |
Rather, as you'll see from the articles and documents, if this is the best the NYT and Guardian can do, the Wikileaks crowd has shot themselves in both feet.
| Yesterday I pointed out to a few open minded liberal friends the "Bush lied" claims that I noticed Wikileaks proved true. Now that Dr. Steve has done the work for us, I shall point them to the articles. I shall have to work very hard to be tactful, because that's more effective when one wishes to persuade. |
The documents presented so far prove two things. First, that Iraqis were and are far more savage to each other than Americans have ever been to them. The sectarian violence, the insurgent violence, and Saddam's violence were far more brutal than anything we ever did. You'll not get Human Rights Watch or the Lancet to admit that, of course, but the documents speak for themselves.
| The Lancet hasn't been good at distilling truth from data for a while, nor at demanding the generation of honest data. Human Rights Watch wears polarized glasses -- or perhaps it was done with laser surgery -- and truthfully records what it sees. |
Second, Iran has been stirring the pot in Iraq since the day Baghdad fell. They have been providing Shi'a militias and killers with weapons, training and support. Their strategic goals were to try and bend the country to their will, and to fight America. Iran sees Iraq as a battleground in that fight.
It will be no surprise to regular readers of Rantburg that the Middle East is a savage region of the world. It will be no surprise to know that America, never perfect, is far better than those who have ruled in that unhappy region.
And it will be no surprise at all to our regular readers that Iran is at war with us, and has been since the Shah fell.
Just wait until the regular readers of the NYT figure that out.
| Exploding heads everywhere. It's going to be a bloody mess. |
Posted by: Steve White 2010-10-24 |
