Under Obama, Better to Commit a War Crime Than Expose One

[babsbunny]

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/03/07-1

by Medea Benjamin and Charles Davis

Bradley Manning is accused of humiliating the political establishment by revealing the complicity of top U.S. officials in carrying out and covering up war crimes. In return for his act of conscience, the U.S. government is holding him in abusive solitary confinement, humiliating him and trying to keep him behind bars for life.

The lesson is clear, and soldiers take note: You're better off committing a war crime than exposing one.

An Army intelligence officer stationed in Kuwait, the 23-year-old Manning – outraged at what he saw – allegedly leaked tens of thousands of State Department cables to the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks. These cables show U.S. officials covering up everything from U.S. tax dollars funding child rape in Afghanistan to illegal, unauthorized bombings in Yemen. Manning is also accused of leaking video evidence of U.S. pilots gunning down more than a dozen Iraqis in Baghdad, including two journalists for Reuters, and then killing a father of two who stopped to help them. The father's two young children were also severely wounded.

[Poboy]

1. Ouch, too much truth!

[GeorgiaPeach]

2. Those in the power group stick together and cover each other's asses..

[leftstreet]

3. K&R

ouch

[DeSwiss]

4. K&R

Obama = War Criminal

- No one seems to be able to come out and say it.

[AKDavy]

5. I have said it....

Hellfire missile flies.
"Father, what is that approaching?"
"Liberation, child."

[FiveGoodMen]

6. And what do we call people who look at the world that way ?

[Rex]

7. Yep, it is torture for political reasons alone. We live in a soft porn dictatorship.

Our govt wants to make sure WE the people understand they can detain, kill and torture us at anytime without any legal reason (making shit up and then playing CYA is not a reason).

[Wilms]

8. .

[fittosurvive]

9. I thought treason was a war crime.

[DeSwiss]

10. You were wrong. n/t

[Bluebear]

11. lol

[disillusioned73]

12. k&r

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