Michael Moore on WikiLeaks: 'Leaks Don't Kill People, Secrets Do'

"We really owe a debt to Mr. Assange and to WikiLeaks for turning on a big spotlight on those people who brought about, first of all, this war that we've been in for the better part of this decade -- these people concocted lies and they committed crimes in order to send our young men and women off to war. And it has cost us not only the lives of our own people but the lives of literally now tens if not hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and Afghan citizens. ... What if we had a WikiLeaks in August of 1964 when we were told that the North Vietnamese fired on a U.S. ship, which in fact was a lie. It was a concocted lie at the Pentagon and we didn't find out about that until Daniel Ellsberg released the 'Pentagon Papers' some six, seven years later. What if there had been a WikiLeaks?" -- Michael Moore on Countdown with Keith Olbermann, Tuesday, December 14th, 2010

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[duduvissotto]

USA preaches democracy and FREEDOM every single day, that's been their propaganda for a whole century. So now it's the time to come clean and tell everyone what this propaganda is all about. Democracy means transparacy, specially to your own people. If you lie to your own people, then how can you come to a foreign land and impose your ideals of freedom? What's freedom for you? Get everything always your way? WAKE UP America, the world has changed and your time is about to expire.time to respect!

[ippothedestroyer]

Assange is a hero.

[SteffeStolpskott]

@jerramy No. But the women reported it to the police as rape, and even though it wasn't, swedish law demands that he is interrogated before he can be declared innocent. Problem is that swedish authorities goes to bed with american ones so he'll probably be given to america.

[DARIOTODESCO]

The warld is upside down, who act as criminal and lie to all is free and who say the truth and help the warld to know who is the real bad one... go to prison. Hey but what is going on? people of all the planet, wake up!

[GSNPFL]

Julian Assange of Wikileaks and Michael Moore in this video has more patriotism for America than Obama and congress and certainly unconstitutional Super Committee of 12 - Congress NEVER relinquished its legislative power to super committee of 12 [dangerous secret meetings].

FREE Manning FREE Assange.

[invaliduser1000]

Chemical ali & Saddam KILLED many KURDISH children.The Iraq war WAS necessary beyond fact IF it took lies to kill a mass murderer ,so be it Thanks to all who went to Iraq to get justice for the innocent, TY G Bush, Cowards like moore would have continued to do nothing,, "Evil grow,s when good men say nothing"

[jerramy]

Condom broke during consensual sex? They can put you in jail for that? Seriously?

[GeonTheDayDreamer]

south park brought me here

[firstdicehawk]

@TheMarcochrist yeah im sleepy too

[TheMarcochrist]

@firstdicehawk ....very funny, an ugly baby it would be, but true.......