Wikileaks Gets Hold of Counterinsurgency Manual

[Valiss]

So no one cares about human rights violations that are encouraged by the US military? Fair enough.

[ThRiLl]

Originally Posted by Valiss

It directly advocates warrantless searches, detainment without charge and the suspension of habeas corpus.

They are the army, not the police. They operate in foreign countries; they don''t take the constitution with them.

It directly advocates bribery, employing terrorists, false flag operations and concealing human rights abuses from journalists.

I would love to see where the manual says "Employ Terrorists." Sounds like a bit of editorialization.

And it directly advocates the extensive use of 'psychological operations' (propaganda) to make these and other 'population & resource control' measures more palatable."

I would hope so. You do know that we have a whole branch of Spec Ops dedicated to psych warfare, right?

[KönigTiger]

Why would anybody be disturbed or creeped out about this manual? This is,after all,Unconventional warfare we have to deal with.

[Zankou]

Paraphrases are pretty much meaningless. Get some quotes, then it gets some substance to it.

I mean "warrantless searches"? My God, to imagine that a counterinsurgency military effort might be conducted in a foreign nation WITHOUT A WARRANT for each search! Unimaginable! And bribery, in the context of a foreign counterinsurgency special forces operation? UNTHINKABLE! Shit, you can't even go grocery shopping in the Middle East without bribing people.

If the manual says things like "hire terrorists and run false flag operations," then great, quote that. But otherwise it just sounds like aggressive paraphrasing ... x "really means" y, etc.

[grrthetree]

SF is all about winning, they have to win somehow. These people do it so no one else has to.

[SMEAC]

Shocking enough, I have never gotten a warrant before entering an Iraqi home.

[Valiss]

You are all hung up on the issue of obtaining a warrent and ignoring the human rights violation. Interesting.

[ThRiLl]

Originally Posted by SMEAC

Shocking enough, I have never gotten a warrant before entering an Iraqi home.

Please tell me you atleast read them their Miranda rights!

[ThRiLl]

Originally Posted by Valiss

You are all hung up on the issue of obtaining a warrent and ignoring the human rights violation. Interesting.

What human rights violation? All you have provided is some moron's editorial about the manual and links that don't work.

Stop being a lazy fuck and pull out some actual quotes from the manual.

[SMEAC]

Originally Posted by ThRiLl

Please tell me you atleast read them their Miranda rights!

No, but I tell them thanks when I am done.