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Originally Posted by baddog
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u-Bob: I have a feeling you do not know what irony means. There is nothing ironic about wikileaks providing info about BofA and also being a conduit for Manning unless you consider a newspaper ironic.
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Wikileaks has in the past released a lot of information about government cover ups, fraud, drug dealing,... and about US military activities in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan,... A common reaction to wikileaks releasing information about military activities has been that it would somehow put US troops at risk. The fact that it may be the disclosed activities themselves and not the fact that they are being disclosed that provoke negative reactions doesn't seem to cross those people's minds. It also doesn't cross their mind that "it will harm the troops" is an easy way for those that ordered unethical actions to shift he attention away from their own responsibilities. It's called shooting the messenger.
Now if someone posted the often misused line "it will harm the troops" in response to a post that wikileaks will disclose information about unethical behavior in the banking world (something that's totally unrelated to the troops), one could consider that to be use of irony.
