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Snorting McChrystal (or) Snorting Rolling Stones?
Updated: Saturday, August 21, 2010
OK, the whole media world is talking about the sucker coup of Wikileaks (Bravo for them!) and their revelatory Afghan War Diaries leak/s.
The leak took place on or about July 25, 2010. And blame or responsibility has already been assigned to some, sorry to say, low-level US military personnel. A-Hem! Excuse us! Did everybody miss something here? Including The Daily Show and The Colbert Report?
What are we talking about? Hellooooo.... Didn't the US/ISAF General in Charge of the Afghanistan Operations/War just get sent down the tubes about one month ago? Speaking of tubes, is everybody in the media snorting "McChrystal" or some other finely powdered crystalline Class I narcotic? (Sorry, we apologize for the drug/humor reference/s, we know it is in poor taste).
Why did everybody else miss this? Does the world have ADHD? Is Mr. Derp now running Fox News?
Not to mention, therefore, isn't this all a result of that sh*tty tirade reported by Rolling Stone just this summer/spring? You be the judge.
What else is funky about this relationship? We're not saying the general had anything to do with the leaks, but the events are pretty closely related in time. A little too close.
And, when some top guy goes down for something - they sometimes like to leave behind a little 'Position Paper' on where their major activities stood prior to their departure? Is this all starting to sound familiar? Helloooo...
Does anybody remember Abu Ghraib and what happened to all the low-level torture clowns involved there - and then the commanding officer. You do remember the sequence of events in that scandal, right? Ahhh, we detect the odor of the same order of sequence here...
Not to mention, we did have a look at the reports that appear on the Wikileaks website. No, we haven't had time to read all of them. We're still sorting through the Pentagon Papers for G*d's Sakes! But, it is starting to look like the Pakistan-Taliban-US$ connection might be a little overblown. Only 4 known reports appear in the journal concerning finance from Pakistan or anywhere. As far as "hits" (assassinations) go, those were probably in all likelihood funded by the Taliban (with money from Pakistan or from poppy money - its hard to say for sure...). There were something like 48 reports on hits.
We have distilled some of the more "important" categories of reports from the Diaries and listed them below. Approach with caution. We did this in case Wikileaks runs out of funds (again) or gets mysteriously shut down and disappears... Meanwhile, our list, enjoy...
Oh, and something else, nothing shows you are winning the war like the number of enemy surrenders. Ahem, we have FOUR of them. Oh, and reported Food Distributions and Counter-Terrorism attack numbers were also weak; 4 and 1. ONE counter-terrorism attack? That "War on Terror" is going really swell isn't it Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney?
(Oh, don't get us wrong - we love our troops and support those that do honorable service and some not so much, too).
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Number of Assassinations reported in Wikileaks Afghan War Diaries: 48
http://wardiary.wikileaks.org/afg/sort/category/assassination_0.html
Number of Attacks reported in Wikileaks Afghan War Diaries: 2283
http://wardiary.wikileaks.org/afg/sort/category/attack_0.html
Number of Ambushes reported in Wikileaks Afghan War Diaries: 538
http://wardiary.wikileaks.org/afg/sort/category/ambush_0.html
Number of Counterterrorism Reports in Wikileaks Afghan War Diaries: 1
http://wardiary.wikileaks.org/afg/sort/category/counter_terrorism_0.html
Number of Drug Operations Reports in Wikileaks Afghan War Diaries: 8
http://wardiary.wikileaks.org/afg/sort/category/drug_operation_0.html
Number of (Enemy) Finance Reports in Wikileaks Afghan War Diaries: 4
http://wardiary.wikileaks.org/afg/sort/category/finance_0.html
Number of Food Distributions Reports in Wikileaks Afghan War Diaries: 4
http://wardiary.wikileaks.org/afg/sort/category/food_distribution_0.html
Number of IED Ambush Reports in Wikileaks Afghan War Diaries: 350
http://wardiary.wikileaks.org/afg/sort/category/ied_ambush_0.html
Number of IED Explosions Reports in Wikileaks Afghan War Diaries: 7202
http://wardiary.wikileaks.org/afg/sort/category/ied_explosion_0.html
Number of IED Found/Cleared Reports in Wikileaks Afghan War Diaries: 8581
http://wardiary.wikileaks.org/afg/sort/category/ied_found_cleared_0.html
Number of Mines Found/Cleared Reports in Wikileaks Afghan War Diaries: 396
http://wardiary.wikileaks.org/afg/sort/category/mine_found_cleared_0.html
Number of Mine Strikes Reports in Wikileaks Afghan War Diaries: 321
http://wardiary.wikileaks.org/afg/sort/category/mine_strike_0.html
Number of Murder Reports in Wikileaks Afghan War Diaries: 100
http://wardiary.wikileaks.org/afg/sort/category/murder_0.html
Number of Willing Recruitments detained Reports in Wikileaks Afghan War Diaries: 1
http://wardiary.wikileaks.org/afg/sort/category/recruitment_willing__0.html
Number of Poisonings Reports (attempted) in Wikileaks Afghan War Diaries: 1
http://wardiary.wikileaks.org/afg/sort/category/poisoning_0.html
Number of Enemy Sabotage Reports in Wikileaks Afghan War Diaries: 6
http://wardiary.wikileaks.org/afg/sort/category/sabotage_0.html
Number of Enemy/Unknown Surrenders Reports in Wikileaks Afghan War Diaries: 4
http://wardiary.wikileaks.org/afg/sort/category/surrendering_0.html
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