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Bradley Manning. A Portrait in Courage: Because of this man and WikiLeaks, the American public was able to see what it has every right to see.
US forces in an Apache helicopter killed 12 unarmed civilians, including two Reuters journalists, and wounded two children. Americans did not see this on CNN or in any newspaper or any other medium. Because of this man and WikiLeaks, the American public was able to see what it has every right to see.
By Marjorie Cohn
Global Research, March 01, 2013
Bradley Manning has pleaded guilty to 10 charges including possessing and willfully communicating to an unauthorized person all the main elements of the WikiLeaks disclosure. The charges carry a total of 20 years in prison. For the first time, Bradley spoke publicly about what he did and why. His actions, now confirmed by his own words, reveal Bradley to be a very brave young man.
Bradley Manning was a Traitor trying to “Aid the Enemy”?
I suppose, like genius and madness, there’s a thin dividing line
between the two…
But wasn’t he just trying to make us see that there are some Bad
Guys on our side in the Ten Decades War, see what is our right to
see?
When he was 22 years old, Pfc. Bradley Manning gave classified documents to WikiLeaks. They included the “Collateral Murder” video, which depicts U.S. forces in an Apache helicopter killing 12 unarmed civilians, including two Reuters journalists, and wounding two children.
“I believed if the public, particularly the American public, could see this it could spark a debate on the military and our foreign policy in general as it applied to Iraq and Afghanistan,” Bradley told the military tribunal during his guilty plea proceeding. “It might cause society to reconsider the need to engage in counter terrorism while ignoring the human situation of the people we engaged with every day.”
To remain silent with knowlege of wrong doing is to become an accomplice.
play with fire you get burnt ! , there are alot of things that are wrong in this world and he is going to pay a heavy price ! for his heroism ! or stupidity ! , you cannot beat the system just stay “clear of it ! “GOD” says to “come out of the world ” not be part of it