WikiLeaks today released over 75,000 secret US military reports covering the war in Afghanistan. The documents, written by soldiers and military leaders, covers the years 2004-2010. The White House, naturally, is not pleased. Neither, I'm sure, are several generals and subordinate officers.
Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks, defended his right to publish the documents. According to Assange, the secret files show that "thousands" of war crimes may have been committed in Afghanistan.
See http://wardiary.wikileaks.org/
No one in the Nixon White House was pleased with Daniel Ellsberg in 1971 when he released the Pentagon Papers - a top-secret Pentagon study of US government decision-making about the Vietnam War - to The New York Times and other newspapers. Many of the documents in the Pentagon Papers, also written by military leaders, admitted that the VietNam war was not "winnable", and were also critical and cynical of American citizens protesters against the war.
"The public is lied to every day by the President, by his spokespeople, by his officers. If you can’t handle the thought that the President lies to the public for all kinds of reasons, you couldn’t stay in the government at that level, or you’re made aware of it, a week. … The fact is Presidents rarely say the whole truth—essentially, never say the whole truth—of what they expect and what they’re doing and what they believe and why they’re doing it and rarely refrain from lying, actually, about these matters." - Daniel Ellsberg, 1998
Assange rejected accusations that the leak had compromised America's national security.
"We are familiar with groups whose abuse we expose attempting to criticise the messenger to distract from the power of the message."
For astrologers out there, this particular day, as Assange publishes the war documents through Wikileaks, transiting Saturn is exactly opposing transiting Uranus. This underscores the importance of this event, shedding light on the dark underbelly of war and politics.
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