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1/20 We open this thread with a poll on a real poll from 3 Apr 2003 that asked the US public if they’d say the war in Iraq was “successful if it removed Saddam… and fewer than [N] Iraqi civilians were killed”.

Guess the number above which the majority judged “not successful”
2/20 It is 20 years later, and today IBC updated its documented violent civilian death toll to 186,797–210,166. Which stands in desperately sad and bitter contrast to the result of the 2003 L.A.Times poll: 500, an answer that may astound many people today. rand.org/pubs/monograph…
3/ So a majority of the US public of 2003 felt that if more than 500 Iraqi civilians were killed in the war, it would not be worth it. Very different from the US Ambassador to the UN who could justify 500,000 Iraqi (child) deaths in the 1990s, when presented with that estimate.
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Seymour Hersh is right. For various reasons, which I will explain in this thread, Wikileaks did more to keep the US safe than those failed institutions of the CIA, FBI, and the corporate media.

If there had been a #Wikileaks in the 1980s and 1990s, there may never have been 9/11
As @StateDept knows, the US will eventual fail if it’s reputation around the world as corrupt and duplicitous reaches a critical mass. Powerful as they are, the US needs allies and markets to survive. Like ‘fossil fuels’, they are vulnerable to popular and progressive opinion.
In this regard the US at times needs protection from its own worst self: rapacious and unchecked nationalism and capitalism. In the 1960s & 70s this check came from mainstream journalism. Today it comes from independent journos with info from insider sources. like #Wikileaks
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#ChelseaManning rimane in prigione:vogliono farla crollare affinché testimoni contro Julian #Assange sulla pubblicazione dei documenti segreti del governo USA che ha rivelato crimini di guerra, atrocità. Tutto questo NON accade in Russia: quando si sveglierà l'opinione pubblica?
1. voglio ricordarvi solo alcune delle rivelazioni sull'Italia possibili grazie ai file segreti che #ChelseaManning ha avuto il coraggio di far uscire e che Julian #Assange e #WikiLeaks hanno avuto il coraggio di pubblicare
2. il vero ruolo delll'Italia in #Afghanistan, i contatti di #CarloGiovanardi con la diplomazia USA sulla strage di #Ustica, la farsa della commissione d'inchiesta sulla morte di #NicolaCalipari e come #Berlusconi e #GianniLetta si sono accomodati alla farsa voluta dagli USA
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1. buongiorno! per ora, continuiamo a smascherare le falsità dell'informazione italiana sul caso Julian #Assange, poi vi spiegherò perché in Italia l'offensiva contro Julian #Assange è particolarmente intensa
2. "Eh, ma Julian #Assange ha messo tanta gente a rischio", ci dicono i nostri Pulitzer. Per "fortuna" abbiamo la certezza che nessuno è stato ucciso o danneggiato. Come lo sappiamo? lo sappiamo "grazie" al processo a Chelsea #Manning davanti alla corte marziale.
3. il giudice chiamò a testimoniare il capo della Task Force creata dal #Pentagono x stabilire rigorosamente se la pubblicazione di TUTTI i files segreti del governo USA leakati da #Manning (#CollateralMurder,#AfghanWarLogs,#IraqWarLogs,#Cablegate,#GitmoFiles)avesse causato danni
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