Wikileaks, The State, The lies and Nietzsche
With great interest I’m following the news surrounding the new leak of 400.000 classified documents on the Iraq War dubbed the “Iraq War Logs”. Last night I spent some time browsing through the material. Wikileaks has set up a website in which everyone can read the documents and provide extra information to it in order to better understand the contents. Please be aware that the site is very slow today. All reports contain coordinates and for the first time in history you can see in one picture what this material is all about. There is even a interactive visualization about one the bloodiest day’s in the conflict you can see here, one day of war.
What is remarkable is that the only argument against this leakage by the US government is that leaking this kind of information puts lives in danger, not the mention the earlier made comments Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff, Mullen, that Wikileaks “has blood on it’s hands”. That latest comment is actually pretty ironic coming from man representing an organization which has the blood of hundreds of thousands of people on its hands…