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I was getting ready to blog and looking around for Julian Assange's bio when I came upon a TED video talk he had just a few short days before the release of the 92,000 plus reports on the Afghanistan war. A very interesting, intelligent man with a good sense of humour -- and yet another reason to love the intertubes.

I'm clearly running out of ideas for titles. Still, any excuse to post a Rolling Stones tune works for me:

 It's very much as if parliament never went on vacation here in Canada. The Tories are still attacking and doing their best to smear Iggy who is having none of it. He seems to have a learned a thing or two in the past year. The Conservatives sent out a missive declaring Liberal, Jennifer Pollock’s comment on Twitter to be a smear of the entire Calgary Police force.

The Tories memo blathers on with the same kind of talking points they have employed since Iggy was made leader of the Liberal Party, “His failure to condemn this reckless policy baiting is unacceptable. Liberals are soft on crime. Mr. Ignatieff and his team are “not in it for our police officers. Not in it for Canadians. Only in it for themselves. Mr. Ignatieff, who is on a summer tour of the country, “does not stand up to embarrassing candidates.” 

It's trite and didn't seem to bother the opposition a whit. They noted first, that Jennifer Pollock was ‘re-tweeting’ a resident's comment to make to case for the proper resourcing of Calgary's finest – it is budget time in Calgary. And then fired back a shot across the bow of their own, “So, nice try to change the channel from all the bad news the Conservatives are creating (census scandal, $16 billion dollars sole-source contract, employment equity debacle, etc.), but this is not it.” The Liberal official says it’s a bit rich to be accused of “smearing by the master smearers.”

There's been fallout in Canada over the leaked military records from Afghanistan. They suggest that the four Canadians, reported killed fighting the Taliban in a major offensive called Operation Medusa, were in fact slain by a U.S. friendly fire. The Harper government, who initially refused to comment on the 92,000 leaked U.S. and NATO documents posted on the Internet by...

The moment Julian Assange of WikiLeaks released the 92,000 plus reports that are a daily diary of the war in Afghanistan, it was inevitable that they would be compared with the Pentagon Papers. The Washington Post does a good job of sorting out the similarities and the differences noting on the one hand that, unlike the Pentagon Papers, there are no high-level documents here that raise basic questions about the credibility of Presidents Obama and George W. Bush and their top advisors. However just like the Pentagon Papers, the Wikileaks Afghanistan War Logs will (likely) fuel political opposition in the U.S. to American troops continuing combat operations in Afghanistan.

The Guardian describes the revelations as being, ...a devastating portrait of the failing war in Afghanistan, revealing how coalition forces have killed hundreds of civilians in unreported incidents, Taliban attacks have soared and Nato commanders fear neighbouring Pakistan and Iran are fuelling the insurgency.

•This leak will harm national security. (As if those words still had...