Comments on: Wikileaks Mythbusting: Yemen Cables

By: James Hyams

James Hyams — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 16:05:36 +0000

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By: George Vreeland Hill

George Vreeland Hill — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 03:55:55 +0000

I applaud WikiLeaks and what they are doing on the Internet.
WikiLeaks is exposing the U.S. Government and others for the frauds they are.
The U.S. Government lies, cheats, steals, kills, takes, ruins and on and on.
When it comes to war, the government is just as bad.
The numbers are way off and the truth is hidden.
The military lies and covers up.
Want proof?
Just ask the family of Pat Tillman.
Look at the self interest politicians.
Look at the IRS.
Look at the FBI, the CIA and other government groups that waste your money, bully, spy and worse.
Look at the police, the courts and others who get away with far worse crimes than the people they put away.
The U.S. Government is a load of bs and needs to be brought down.
The people have had enough.
In George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, there is a legendary phrase … “Big Brother is watching you.”
That big brother turned out to be big government.
Times are changing.
Now we are watching them and the truth is being told.
Thank God for WikiLeaks.
Instead of trying to shut it down, we the people need to shut down the U.S. Government and all of the others that WikiLeaks has exposed.
It is clear that the truth is something governments, leaders, bankers and many others do not like.
They can shut down Websites, but they can’t shut us up.
I am,

GEORGE VREELAND HILL

By: Stephanie Z

Stephanie Z — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 01:01:57 +0000

Ron, would you care to document the crimes, lies, and thefts of Russ Feingold?

By: Ron

Ron — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 00:41:10 +0000

Big Brother has arrived, not just here in America but world wide. Why, because CEO’s, politicians and even our generals are universally crooks, liars, thieves and often murderers. And they really hate being exposed as such. Perhaps they were not when they came to power, but once in power they all eventually become corrupted. So do not be surprised when your favorite politician demands swift reprisals against wikileaks and its founder. But also donâ??t be surprised when you also are brought to heel by those in power in giant corporations, the government and the military.

By: Dunc

Dunc — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 15:35:51 +0000

The other idea I find strange in all this business (and many other similar episodes) is the assumption that the locals are completely unaware of all this until it’s reported in the Western media… I suspect they know damn well what’s going on (people on the sharp end usually do) and it’s only those of us in the Imperial heartlands that are being successfully kept in the dark.

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 01:13:54 +0000

Itzac, that is my hypothesis. Plus, the author of the material to which I refer above commented that the folks living in the Wadi’s have a lot of problems to deal with on a day to day basis and the central government, their relationship to other countries including the US, and their fiddling around with Al-Qaida are not very high on their list.

By: itzac

itzac — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 01:03:14 +0000

So, in other words Greg, the distributed nature of religious authority in Yemen is better served by a relatively irreligious government than by a religious government that might try to centralize that authority?

By: Jane

Jane — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 20:44:37 +0000

Actually Amnesty International published photos of the bomb fragments and they were clearly US, the Yemeni government admitted they had given the US authority and then withdrew it, the Y Parliament made a formal inquiry and found 43 civilians killed at the nearby Bedouin village, mostly women and children, and the Yemeni government issued an apology and perhaps compensation.

The oddest thing about the Patreous cable is that he thinks (and apparently the US embassy thinks) there were only three non-terrorists killed and they were the family of one of the jihaddis, when it was apparent within hours that it was a tragedy. I had photos up on my site the same day.

By: Muhammad Zamiluddin Khan [a.k.a. Zamil Khan]

Muhammad Zamiluddin Khan [a.k.a. Zamil Khan] — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 20:10:41 +0000

The tendency that we have really to isolate our analysis based on geological and religious and cultural parameter in our consideration of “terror” that is constituent reflection of “Violence”.Terror is something that does not persecute systematically,rather proposes annihilation of “dissent’ ,most of the times in isolation of individuals and some case on “Group” or “communities’.And this process of “Terror” -that is “unregulated Violence” does take place in absence of “Authority” in human Psyche and In real Human Settings that defies the interactive approach of Cultures or streams in same culture.Given this construct,one wonders what is really wrong in Yemen-a traditional hub of peace and tranquility that boast of having representation from three Abrahamic Religion with Muslim Majority?We think we need serious rethinking how we explore Arab culture and Arabism in the West.Muhammad Zamiluddin Khan’92,HSPH a.k.a.Zamil Khan

By: Tom S.

Tom S. — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 18:49:35 +0000

Isn’t terrorism the direct result of the lies and receipt?

The receipt is so you can take the lie back later.