Nice article from Adbusters outlining the extent to which the US government deliberately lied to the general public about the number of civilian causalities in Afghanistan – we know this thanks to.. Wikileaks.

I’m kind of glad I avoided the day by day revelations when it was in the news a month ago – now there’s enough distance to look back and filter out the interesting revelations – read this article it’s great –

A brief extract…

‘Both the Wikileaks Iraqi and Afghan War Logs have revealed that the entire U.S. Executive is a “vast lying machine”… the purpose of communicating with the public is not to provide them with truthful information but rather to advance “the mission”. People who communicate with the public obtain their jobs and are promoted on the basis of their ability to mislead, deceive, “spin” and lie. There is no recorded case where Executive Branch officials have been rewarded for telling the truth to the American people, and many where they have been punished or lost their jobs for doing so.’

Scarily Chomskesque

This Guardian site – Iraq – The War Logs is also interesting – based on the findings from leaked American files – revealing a more valid picture about the war in Iraq….