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Obama calls WikiLeaks' "deplorable" - White House

WASHINGTON | Sat Dec 11, 2010 1:43pm EST

WASHINGTON Dec 11 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama told Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan and Mexican President Felipe Calderon in phone calls on Saturday that WikiLeaks' actions were "deplorable" and the leaders agreed it would not hurt ties with Washington, the White House said.

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kryan74 wrote:
What’s even more deplorable: The amount of people who think they understand our Constitution and think they are experts on US law that support Assange. A side effect of Wikileaks has been to show us how many ignorant people there are World Wide.

What is also pathetic: watching these ignorant people talk about Freedom of Speech and how military secrets being leaked have helped the World. That is usually followed by how oppressive the U.S. is and how we are guilty of all these World atrocities.

Reality check for the ignorant. There is not a country on the Planet that is not also guilty of any charge leveled at us. We also offer more aid Worldwide than all nations combined. The computer you type on,the Internet, the car you drive and the telephone you talk on can all be attributed to us being in existence.

Unless you are not an idiot, please spare us the freedom of speech tirade. If you are not a citizen of the US, then worry about your own country’s problem and crimes. All of you are guilty and chances are you rely on us heavily.

Dec 11, 2010 6:11pm EST  --  Report as abuse
DBeeg wrote:
Maybe those leaders should wait to see what the rest of the cables have in store before determining whether they’ll effect ties or not. To make a judgment on what they don’t know right now is stupid.

Also, Obama is deplorable and would be doing the right thing if he resigned, but that’s another issue

Dec 12, 2010 12:48am EST  --  Report as abuse
AustinHook wrote:
Why should an evet that does not affect relations between
Washington and other countries be deplorable?

Fact is it’s probably a dose of refreshing candor.

Why not applaud it? Or is the need to dissimulate so strong that in the face of the obvious benefits of candor one has to go right back to saying lies, out of shear force of habit?

Dec 12, 2010 7:48pm EST  --  Report as abuse
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