Bradley Manning: What is at the heart of the matter?

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6. And handing the information to an Australian was the way to go about this?

Hardly. There are all sorts of whistleblower procedures he could have followed. There are noble Democrats in Congress who would have helped him.

Manning suffers from gender identity disorder. He punched a superior officer. He was found on the floor curled in a fetal position after having carved the words 'I want' into a chair.

He is emotionally unstable. The things he 'exposed' resulted in no changes. He may have been considered an adult in the Army but it's plain he acted like a confused kid.

His superiors deserve blame for this, as well, because they were warned not to deploy him to Iraq and they let him have access to classified material.

But he is not the noble soldier some want to portray him as. He is very confused.