WikiLeaks: Good? Bad?

Ok well this is my first opinion blog =]. If you actually want to read about my opinion on WikiLeaks skip this paragraph =]. So I’m a teenager who has many opinions and I feel like a lot of other Americans may be feeling the same way and I’m using my blog to voice this opinions. Some things you should know about me: I am more conservative than liberal, I try and look at the big picture, there is NO way you can change my mind once i have made it up unless new FACTS can be proven that could influence the outcome, Ill speak my opinion no matter how rash or stupid you may think it is because what you think does not matter to me half as much as my ideals and morals do, I think (and hope) that i am what you would consider to be open minded. I also use CNN a lot as well as other new websites that i feel have credibility. This post uses CNN
Now onto WikiLeaks, I think that WikiLeaks most recent leak is good and bad depending on several things. There that’s my opinion. Now to explain, I think that the fact that they are revealing civilian deaths is good because no one should be forgotten; I also feel that the government should be more open and willing to tell us what is going on.

The Government

However these are classified documents they must classified for a reason. Is the reason to stop the US government from looking bad? Some people say that is why they were classified; in that case they should be released.
We deserve to know what our government is doing in order to decide how and if it should be changed.
CNN ""The attack on the truth by war begins long before war starts and continues long after a war ends," WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange told reporters in London, England. "In our release of these 400,000 documents about the Iraq war, the intimate detail of that war from the U.S. perspective, we hope to correct some of that attack on the truth that occurred before the war, during the war and which has continued on since the war officially concluded.""
Exactly we should get to know about the war, the government should not be hiding things from us. We have a right as taxpayers, the financiers of this war, to know what’s going on.

Is it not also possible that our government may have some of these civilians deaths classified in order to? 
Now if these documents were classified in order to protect people and to protect missions that would protect people then i think that they should have remained classified.

CNN says "After the leak in July of more than 70,000 Afghanistan war documents, the website was heavily criticized by the U.S. government, the military and human rights groups for failing to redact names of civilians in the documents, putting them at risk of retaliation by the Taliban."
 This to me is shameful- trying to shed light on the war does not mean implicating innocent (or maybe not so innocent) civilians- if the civilians committed a crime then it should be taken care of by a court not by the Taliban.

However CNN also quotes WikiLeaks C. Hrafnsson ""At the outset, everything in all reports was deemed harmful and redacted until proven otherwise," Hrafnsson told reporters." My opinion is good they are telling to truth about the war but protecting civilians but then i also thought; do they perfectly understand our government? And everything that is going on? Who are they to say what is safe to release?

I personally think that most of the 400,000 recently released documents were classified for a mix of both reasons. Maybe the government was covering their rear and maybe some individuals have now been made unsafe. I think that these documents should not have been released until WikiLeaks was 100% certain that no one could be harmed with the information that was released, which i don’t feel that they were. So next time please be more careful?

WikiLeaks
I also question WikiLeaks motives. If there motives were purely to inform the American people about the war without hurting anyone then i applaud them. I doubt this though I think that this had political motives. I think that these people may have been motivated to release these documents to make our government look bad (specifically bush), like it was hiding things from us that we needed to know, or rather should have known.