So is Wikileaks taking a stand - are you anti war?

We have a stand about justice and we believe that the way to justice is transparency and we are clear that the end goal is to expose injustices in the world and try to rectify them. Obviously death is a type of injustice, and death during war, especially civilians, is an unjust war. We try to expose them to bring about reform. We don't have a view about whether the war should continue or stop - we do have a view that it should be prosecuted as humanely as possible. What do you want to accomplish by putting them out in the open? It's important to understand that these records are seven months old, so they do not speak about any immediate ongoing operation - rather they describe the texture and history of this war in Afghanistan. It's not our function to get people killed, rather it's our function to try and achieve justice and save people's lives. So it's not right to say this material has been classified by the US military because it's perceived that enemies would use it in such and such a way - or that the material just goes into a classified bin. But it hasn't been declassified, you're effectively declassifying it. Yes, we are declassifying it effectively.