Another brave American
soldier EXPOSES THE LIES OF THIS ROGUE 'US GOV'
Manning was fortunate
enough to survive to come home - others are murdered
'killed by friendly fire'.......................
Manning is upholding his
oath of allegiance to this nation - and he is being
persecuted and prosecuted
for it by a top 'general' - who is that traitor?
Manning says US public lied to about
Iraq from the start
11 hours ago
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New York (AFP) - The detained US soldier convicted of leaking a trove of
secret documents to WikiLeaks made a rare foray into public life Saturday to
warn Americans they were being lied to about Iraq once more.
Chelsea Manning is serving a 35-year prison sentence on espionage charges
and other offenses for passing along 700,000 secret documents, including
diplomatic cables and military intelligence files, to anti-secrecy website
WikiLeaks in the largest-scale leak in US history.
"I understand that my actions violated the law. However, the concerns
that motivated me have not been resolved," the soldier formerly known as
Bradley Manning wrote in a New York Times editorial.
"As Iraq erupts in civil war and America again contemplates
intervention, that unfinished business should give new urgency to the question
of how the United States military controlled the media coverage of its long
involvement there and in Afghanistan."
President Barack Obama said this week he was "looking at all the
options" to halt the offensive that has brought militants within 50 miles
(80 kilometers) of Baghdad's city limits, but ruled out any return of US combat
troops.
Obama has been under mounting fire from Republican critics over the swift
collapse of Iraq's security forces, which Washington spent billions of dollars
training and equipping before pulling out its own troops in 2011.
While the US military was upbeat in its public outlook on the 2010 Iraqi
parliamentary elections, suggesting it had helped bring stability and democracy
to the country, "those of us stationed there were acutely aware of a more
complicated reality," Manning wrote.
"Military and diplomatic reports coming across my desk detailed a
brutal crackdown against political dissidents by the Iraqi Ministry of Interior
and federal police, on behalf of Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki. Detainees were
often tortured, or even killed."
Manning, a former US Army intelligence analyst, said he was "shocked by
our military's complicity in the corruption of that election. Yet these deeply
troubling details flew under the American media's radar."
Criticizing the military's practice of embedding journalists, Manning
charged that "the current limits on press freedom and excessive government
secrecy make it impossible for Americans to grasp fully what is happening in
the wars we finance."
Manning is serving out the prison sentence at Fort Leavenworth in Kansas and
had requested a name change after court-martial proceedings revealed the
soldier's emotional turmoil over sexual identity.
A US Army general denied clemency to Manning in April, upholding the 35-year
sentence.
Dan on said: Edit 
V.K. Durham on said: Edit 
Researchers at
Harvard University announced today that they have found what appears to be a
message from God written inside the human genome.
I’ve just got to a point that I’m about ready
to stop posting any of the 5,253,576 events that occur each and every day on
this planet, where someone is reported injured, or killed, or displaced, or
this or that bank executive commits suicide, or so and so financial this or
that happens. A country is “invaded” or boundaries crossed or violated. 
