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In reply to the discussion: Bradley Manning is a hero and a freedom fighter. [View all]MrMickeysMom
(20,453 posts)... and so was the command structure. No one arrested there, just Manning for telling about it.
I hate bullshit remarks like when someone says one of the civilians was being perceived as carrying an RPG. Two of those civilians who were targeted and gunned down were MEDIA holding the equipment of a cameraman. First responders to the scene who were also targeted and gunned down were responding to the first murder. Then, two innocent children were wounded as they saw their relatives murdered on that same insanity.
This was done in OUR name, and you're selling bullshit about "Even Assange said it looked like..."
If you have a point to make that is fact based, then make it, otherwise please STFU about the fact that we have to see someone who was brave act. He was brave to have first followed a due process to his superiors about war crimes ... only to be ignored. And when he did whistle blow to the media about it (or we'd NEVER understand yet other crimes committed in our name) then HE himself is "renditioned", in fact, mentally and physically tortured in my book. He then serves 3 years in a military prison without a trial only to GET a trial with this bullshit outcome.
And the Obama administration, just like the Bush administration thinks I should turn on American Gladiators and just go back to bed?
Well, FUCK THAT, Mr. President.