Scahill on Wikileaks Iraq logs MSNBC

The latest WikiLeaks document dump proves that the Pentagon has known for a long time just how bad the situation is in Iraq, says The Nation's Jeremy Scahill. What's worse, they lied to the American public about the full scope of civilian casualties in the country—all while accusing the media of publishing exaggerated figures. Scahill, author of the book Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army and of the recent article "WikiLeaks and War Crimes," sums up the case on The Countdown with Keith Olbermann: the Bush adminstration "was lying, supporting death squads, turning a blind eye to torture by Iraqi soldiers to Iraqi detainees] and [committing] torture themselves."

Scahill says that the Obama adminstration needs to stop protecting people such as Donald Rumsfeld and hold members of the Bush adminstration "accountable [for] the serious crimes" that they committed. The latest WikiLeaks dump also provides further evidence that Blackwater killed Iraqi civilians, and Scahill says that the question for the Obama adminstration is: "Why continue to use a firm with such a criminal record track record..of shooting civilians...in Afghanistan when the US is trying to win hearts and minds?"

—Joanna Chiu

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[kk44againstNWO]

they need pretext to est new world order; or set off the nuclear missiles on israel...

the factors are there; china, korea, iran, israel, venezuela.

they have already det a sequence, their simply manipulating the situation until it expodes to their benefit. they usuall est several factors to guarantee their effort and minimate failure

[telboyy]

so when can we expect some indictments, or is that beyond the scope of the american people. an american judge said while prosecuting the Nazis at Nuremberg that the rules we apply to these people here today we must apply to ourselves, if that was the case then every president since wwii would either be in jail or hanged. no one can disagree with this, so lets start cleaning house

[telboyy]

so when can we expect some indictments

[AndrewMann552]

Good to see Scahill not lose his edge and call out the Obama regime for its own guilt in all this, a reminder to limousine liberals like Keith that imperialism is imperialism no matter what party is in power.