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Originally posted by okbmd
Portion of trancript of email sent from Manning to Adrian Lamo., starts at 2
Manning was an Intelligence Analyst , he ANALYSED Intelligence ! We , as humans , have every right to know if , and what , may be in place or in construction , that might DOOM us as a species !
The implications of his statement could be staggering . Who knows what he found ? It could be anything from plans to start a nuclear war , to knowledge of an imminent pole-shift , to an asteroid striking earth with disastrous consequences , to who knows what .
[edit on 12-6-2010 by okbmd]
Originally posted by Tom Servo
This is the same guy that released a tape of insurgents with weapons being attacked by an Apache and claimed it showed an apache murdering people indiscriminately? Yeah, I wouldn't take what he says at face value. Hes proven to not be trust worthy.
Originally posted by Tom Servo
This is the same guy that released a tape of insurgents with weapons being attacked by an Apache and claimed it showed an apache murdering people indiscriminately? Yeah, I wouldn't take what he says at face value. Hes proven to not be trust worthy.
Originally posted by airspoon
Originally posted by Tom Servo
This is the same guy that released a tape of insurgents with weapons being attacked by an Apache and claimed it showed an apache murdering people indiscriminately? Yeah, I wouldn't take what he says at face value. Hes proven to not be trust worthy.
Is that what you think? Seriously? Those reporters with cameras were actually insurgents with weapons? At best, they looked sketchy but that didn't account for the van that pulled up later. That van was fired upon and those children hurt when it was clear that they posed no threat at all.
Then, we refused medical care for those children. This is inexcusable, not matter how much propaganda you try to spew out.
What would you do if your driving along and come to a corner with a bunch of people wounded, crying out for help. Would you stop to help? Are you that human? If you did stop to help, would it be justified for someone to try and murder your family too?
In fact, it is a war crime to shoot at medical help or medical relief, even when that help is helping the enemy. Save your propaganda for the FBI discussion boards.
--airspoon
02:31:02 PM) Manning: i think the thing that got me the most… that made me rethink the world more than anything (02:35:46 PM) Manning: was watching 15 detainees taken by the Iraqi Federal Police… for printing “anti-Iraqi literature”… the iraqi federal police wouldn’t cooperate with US forces, so i was instructed to investigate the matter, find out who the “bad guys” were, and how significant this was for the FPs… it turned out, they had printed a scholarly critique against PM Maliki… i had an interpreter read it for me… and when i found out that it was a benign political critique titled “Where did the money go?” and following the corruption trail within the PM’s cabinet… i immediately took that information and *ran* to the officer to explain what was going on… he didn’t want to hear any of it… he told me to shut up and explain how we could assist the FPs in finding *MORE* detainees…