Not exactly revelations but Karzai, really didn't appear to value the input of British troops in Helmand. It appears to be the case that the Americans had no particular affection for the "borrowers" as they were affectionatly christened.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/...
so there we have it! Britain spending 5 Billion pounds per year and sufering hundreds of casualties for the sake of a rabble of drug dealers, money launders, murderers and in the case of the Americans a 15% fee handling grifter. I speculated that wikileaks might be working for some faction of the British civil service. I think it goes beyond this: he's working for the ordinary squaddie and ordinary bloke down the pub. Good luck getting him out of London. This story alone could make the domestic pressure to simply march the lads out (airlift) a reality. Karzai is not worth protecting and the Americans are not worth standing next to.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/...
Goodbye special relationship and goodbye Karzai is all I can say...
Excerpts from the comment section added on a rolling basis:
completemonsterbob
2 December 2010 9:37PM
If we are not wanted, we should leave. We shouldn't have gone in the first place. Staying there just supports a corrupt system.Bless Wikileaks for telling us what we already knew in our hearts to be true, all of it.
CJUnderwood
2 December 2010 9:48PM
I thought it was supposed to be a joint operation...yet when you're dealing with a country who takes pride in its primary export being the main ingredient of an illegal chemical what was to be expected. Not that I don't have sympathy for them of course. But oh, they wanted us to IMPOSE security did they? Well as a nation we have a history of that, would they rather we dusted off the redcoats? Somehow I don't think they would have liked that.
teaandchocolate
2 December 2010 10:03PM
All the British soldiers out there will read this. There could be a mutiny.
All the soldiers and all the innocent civilians who died for this moaning corrupt git.
It's out there now.
sotek600
2 December 2010 11:55PM
So British soldiers are dying and being maimed in Afghanistan to help scornful Afghan officials and an American administration who seem to have nothing but insults for the UK. I would start pulling everyone out of there this afternoon, leaving only a statue of an extended middle finger.