Wikileaks about to drop 260,000 classified documents

[sgreger1]

Got ya, just sounded like you were a faces of death junky or something.

Lol, no nothing like that. I personally am not expecting this to be a video of us carpetbombing a goup of 140 civilians to be honest, wikileaks has a real bias in the way they name and edit shit. Most likely it will be a routine strike that caught some civilians in it. I highly doubt it will show us needlessly massacering 140 civilians. The US spends an OUTRAGEOUS amount of effort, time, and money (and american blood) to try and limit civilian deaths as much as possible. They know they are fighting a media war. Civilians die in war, especially when your enemy uses them as sheilds, but we really go way out of our way to not risk civilian lives if possible. I think that is stupid and is also why we are still there farking 8 years later but hey, save the whales and all that.


But hey, the gov seems to want this under wraps so I say show it and let the viewer decide.

[MasterGuns]

War... war never changes.
I'm down with some things being kept under wraps since the average American is likely to blindly follow whatever wikileaks tells them is the truth. That and there are just some things that shouldn't be made known due to security issues.
However, to use the "slippery slope" fallacy, this could lead to a dark place where everything (most notably just how much our government is spending us into oblivion) would be considered too sensitive for public knowledge.
I'm content to watch how this develops and what it turns into.
Also bear in mind that campaign promises aren't nearly as important as voting records, something which Obama largely lacks.