Is WikiLeaker prosecuted for info on same "kill squads" Woodward credited (not the surge) for Iraq?

[Leopolds Ghost]

Woodward up and quoted WH / Pentagon high level sources as saying "the surge" was NOT the reason for the decline in violence in Iraq, it was the kill squads.

And he said IN HIS BOOK (IIRC) that they pled with him not to make this info public, lest American lives be endangered by the enemy's realization that it was Americans, not rival Iraqi terrorists, doing the assassination.

So Woodward basically said in his book that he would not be giving us (the reader) details on these "kill squads" EVEN THO HE HAD the details.

And lest the public think (as most Dems/DUers have since been suckered into thinking, to this very day) that "the surge worked".

Which is why you don't hear daily calls for withdrawal from Iraq.

And why Olbermann APOLOGIZED to his viewers for still doing the "days in Iraq" countdown for a short while before and after the election, "even though violence has declined there" and we're "winning" the illegal war now that a Dem is in charge or somesuch.

And violence has dropped EVEN more in Iraq now that it is a sustainable protectorate, with US troops confined to huge permanent bases guarding the oil fields.

I'm asking because I don't know anything about these "kill squads" other than what Bob Woodward told us.

I haven't read up on the recent leak.

[Leopolds Ghost]

1. Thoughts? Anyone?

Someone read up on this?

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2. d/p nt

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3. Guess not.

No feedback = I must be full of shit on this one :shrug:

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4. Anyone?

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5. I can't seem to get an answer on this.

Wikileaks mentioned "kill squads" in Afghanistan. Woodward mentioned them in Iraq. Are assassination teams the basis for our progress in the War on Terror or aren't they?

[Leopolds Ghost]

6. bump for comment

I know little about this post-Woodward leak and what I've heard about the Wikileaks (most of which has confirmed public assumptions).

[AlabamaLibrul]

7. Quite honestly, I don't think anyone knows yet.

If they do, then I don't have a clue.

If you're referring to the "Collateral Murder" video, I don't know how it relates to these "kill squads".

In regards to the recent leak, I've been pouring through it and it seems to be fairly bland, likely massaged, possibly false in some cases (as in factuality, not authenticity) field reports. Nothing incredibly groundbreaking, except that I notice most of the reports on "demonstrations", in fact, the vast majority of them, describe peaceful protests or funeral processions which are labeled "0 INJ/DAM" as opposed to the ubiquitous file footage of crazed brown people running through the streets, burning shit and firing guns into the air screaming "ALLAHU AKBAR!" in shrill tones.

Again, no clue if or how it ties into Woodward's claim.

[Leopolds Ghost]

8. Thanks for the feedback. I guess I don't know enough about this issue.

Frankly, I don't see as how "kill squads" would be any use in Afghanistan anyway. It's a tribal country. In Iraq assassination is practically a civic tradition, so Petraeus may have felt at a disadvantage not going all Israeli on the Mahdi Army to discourage people from taking up arms against us.