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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsManning: Iraq leaders election corrupt; tortures and murders to quell dissent.
http://news.yahoo.com/manning-says-us-public-lied-iraq-start-030349079.html"While the US military was upbeat in its public outlook on the 2010 Iraqi parliamentary elections, suggesting it had helped bring stability and democracy to the country, "those of us stationed there were acutely aware of a more complicated reality," Manning wrote.
"Military and diplomatic reports coming across my desk detailed a brutal crackdown against political dissidents by the Iraqi Ministry of Interior and federal police, on behalf of Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki. Detainees were often tortured, or even killed."
Manning, a former US Army intelligence analyst, said he was "shocked by our military's complicity in the corruption of that election. Yet these deeply troubling details flew under the American media's radar."
Criticizing the military's practice of embedding journalists, Manning charged that "the current limits on press freedom and excessive government secrecy make it impossible for Americans to grasp fully what is happening in the wars we finance."
"Military and diplomatic reports coming across my desk detailed a brutal crackdown against political dissidents by the Iraqi Ministry of Interior and federal police, on behalf of Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki. Detainees were often tortured, or even killed."
Manning, a former US Army intelligence analyst, said he was "shocked by our military's complicity in the corruption of that election. Yet these deeply troubling details flew under the American media's radar."
Criticizing the military's practice of embedding journalists, Manning charged that "the current limits on press freedom and excessive government secrecy make it impossible for Americans to grasp fully what is happening in the wars we finance."
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Manning: Iraq leaders election corrupt; tortures and murders to quell dissent. (Original Post)
grahamhgreen
Jun 2014
OP
Under the American media radar!? What radar? They are a major part of every war effort.
Fred Sanders
Jun 2014
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Like now. The meme is, "if we had more troops there this would never happe"
grahamhgreen
Jun 2014
#2
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)1. Under the American media radar!? What radar? They are a major part of every war effort.
grahamhgreen
(15,741 posts)2. Like now. The meme is, "if we had more troops there this would never happe"
Octafish
(55,745 posts)3. A war based on lies, made on a country that had zero to do with 9-11...
...and the American people aren't told the truth about how said war was run or who we were supporting or how many innocent thousands were killed in the process. Of course, the person who told the truth about it all must go to prison.