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Tuesday, July 27, 2010

No Need For WikiLeaks Founder To Suggest War Crimes

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange told Larry King last night that some of the events described in the more than 75,000 documents regarding the Afghanistan war that U.S. troops may have committed crimes.

“We see events that are very suspicious. We see an incident in August 2006 where U.S. forces, in one report, kill 181 what they say are insurgents. There’s one wounded and zero captured. Those sort of reports have sort of this flavor of a lot of people killed, but no people taken prisoner, and no people left wounded give a deeply suspicious feeling of what happened during these events. … it will take a court to really look at the full range of evidence to decide if a crime has occurred,” the editor-in-chief of WikiLeaks, the Web site that released the documents, told King on CNN.

 

U.S. soldiers and allied foreign troops have their lives in constant danger and the last thing they need is speculation thrown their way without any credible evidence to back up damning claims.

And Assange said there is “a deeply suspicious feeling to these events” as U.S. troops killed nearly all insurgents and only one was wounded during an incident. However, what Assange fails to realize that U.S. troops are trained killers, like the enemy they are fighting. American soldiers are not police officers trying to make an arrest, but their job is to kill as many insurgents as possible.

That sounds like a job well done for the brave men and women in that 2006 incident.

We can debate whether or not WikiLeaks should have released the documents concerning the Afghanistan war and indeed there are some incidents in those documents that need to be exposed.

However, speculating on battles and suggesting that crimes have been committed because nearly all of the enemy was killed is an insult to the troops protecting America and other countries.