Pentagon Whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg on Wikileaks Iraq War Docs (Part 1 of 2)

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In an exclusive interview, Democracy Now! speaks with Pentagon whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg about the WikiLeaks release of 400,000 U.S. intelligence reports on the Iraq War.

Ellsberg became them most famous government whistleblower in the United States after leaking the classified history of the Vietnam War in 1971. He joined WikiLeaks for the press conference announcing the release of the Iraq War logs.

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[Doug Mccoll]

The U.S. gov't has committed and contributed to more crimes against humanity than any conventional terrorist organization ever has. Wake up, people. Time to educate yourselves.

[duncan7599]

The Iraq war will go down in history as one of Americas greatest foreign policy disasters. And George W. Bush as one of it's worst presidents

[Tsnore]

Julian Blancmange is now holed up in London in the Ecuadorean Embassy. This is the nation state that declared through the media in about 1990 that it would hack off American tourists' penises if the Ecuadorean woman who severed her husband's phallus (John Wayne Bobbitt) was incarcerated. Progress?

[electricfemale]

Thank you for sharing!

[TheFrancescoitalia]

Who Created Al Qaeda during the 80s? US

[TheFrancescoitalia]

Admir. Mike Mullen you and the Whole America got blood of Iraq & Afghanistan Blood on your hands.

[TheTollundWoman]

I will need an armed escort? LOL Not in Erbil, people leave the doors unlocked at night and the only "terrorists" are PJAK who are busy fighting Iranian revolutionary guards and don't bother anyone else.

[duncan7599]

It looks like you never been to Iraq. If you ever do go you will need a very heavy armed escort or you will find yourself very missing. Your head will be found in a dump somewhere. That is the reality of todays Iraq. Also you should try looking up Iraqi citizens polling on how they see their nation today. You will be very shocked. Most polls in Iraq today say life is much more dangerous and terrible in Iraq today then Saddams Iraq. Most say the American invasion was a disaster for their nation.

[TheTollundWoman]

Gangs of murder squads....what the hell do you think the Mukhabarat and Republican Guard were, they were every bit as brutal and murderous as Al Qaeda, you think there is "anarchy" now what is worse, anarchy or genocide? do you even know what the Al-Anfal campaign was?

[TheTollundWoman]

No, I hate Al Qaeda, but even the chaos today is better than the GENOCIDE that was occurring under Saddam Hussein's fascist government. the terrorists are thugs, murderers but you do not understand at all what the Ba'athists stood for they wanted to wipe out an entire nation and came very close to succeeding. so THANK GOD SADDAM IS DEAD