> Who are you or anybody else to make a decision like that that effects billions of dollars spent and tens of thousands of lives? I didn't elect Assange. He doe

> Who are you or anybody else to make a decision like that that effects billions of dollars spent and tens of thousands of lives? I didn't elect Assange. He doesn't represent me. shrug The majority of the USA voted for Gore rather than Bush. Still, Bush was made President. His administration then led us into a war in Iraq that cost tens of thousands of lives and billions of dollars, under what now appears to be false pretenses, pushed by his administration. However, if We The People, at the time of the run-up to that war, had more insight and transparency into what was being done, and been able to see more of the real evidence (or lack thereof) first-hand, we as a nation would have been more able to arrive at a wise decision as to whether or not it was the right thing to do to start that war. As it was, instead, the Bush administration got to work mostly in secret, and we had to trust what they claimed. Trust violated. Billions gone, thousands of lives lost. > And I have no recourse to remove him from his post if I feel he is acting maliciously or incompetently. Many citizens felt that way about Bush and Cheney. And yet they were not removed from post. And even now into the following administration, they have not been punished nor has a prosecution attempt even been made. This is how our supposed "democracy" and system of laws works today in actual reality. Not in theory land. In reality. This is the world Wikileaks is operating in. For better or worse.