So the pre-leak spin by the Pentagon is that they have already disclosed everything important that will be revealed in the next WikiLeaks document super-dump.<\/p>\n
Obama’s Pentagon apparently believes that Americans are as gullible – if not mutton-headed – as the Bush Pentagon believed. <\/p>\n
No surprises expected in WikiLeaks Iraq war dump: Pentagon<\/strong> WASHINGTON | Fri Oct 22, 2010 11:21am EDT <\/p>\n
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Pentagon said on Friday it does not expect any big surprises from an imminent dump of as many as 500,000 Iraq war documents by the WikiLeaks website.<\/p>\n
“In terms of the types of incidents that are captured in these reports, where innocent Iraqis have been killed, where there are allegations of detainee abuse, all of these things have been very well chronicled over time,” Pentagon spokesman Col. Dave Lapan said.<\/<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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