Reply #48: I am amazed that you still are not aware of the war crimes

[sabrina 1]

that the Iraq and Afghanistan War Logs contained. If he had just released the video of the murder of those two journalists and the civilians, that alone should have triggered an investigation. But the War Logs, assuming he did release them, contain information that corresponds with his concerns about what he saw, so to say he did not know what he was releasing, is simply wrong.

Unless you are assuming he also released the Diplomatic Cables, which we do not know. Those may have been released by someone else.

It is the War Logs that contain the war crimes information. But then, our media has never covered an of this so I'm not surprised you are unaware of the crimes that he tried to stop by reporting them, and then, if he is the leaker, passed on proof of them to Wikileaks in the War Logs.

Of course this government is not concerned so much with the crimes evident in the War Logs. These crimes are now US policy and no one cares about them, as Manning found out. This government was far more concerned about the Embassy Cables because they exposed so much that we SHOULD know, such as our government's tolerance and support for dictators, our invovlement in every single country on the planet, the corruption that was rampant in many of these countries and the US tolerance, and sometimes involvement in it.

They also exposed this government's attempts to protect war criminals, by pressuring other countries NOT to prosecute them. They exposed our hatred for Human Rights groups and for the highly respected European Court of Human Rights. They exposed the fact that a change in administration did nothing to change these egregious policies of supporting torturers both domestic and foreign, or our support for some of the world's most oppressive regimes.

IF he released the cables, which we do not know, he did this country a great service IF we do something about the revelations. But the fact that NOTHING has been done here to try to corrrect the wrongs revealed, leaves only one conclusion, and that is what the world has concluded, the US is not a country of laws, it is the opposite. We are NOT the 'good guys', we support the bad guys. And we kill the messenger, just like every other brutal, oppressive regime we hypocritically criticize. A fact pointed out this year by China.

Anyone who cares about this country, will view WHO released these documents as a minor issue. The real shock should have been what they revealed about this country's foreign policy because if we do not do something about what we now know, this country will continue to decline. Manning is the focus after all that has been revealed??? How tragic that is, seriously, for this country's future.