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Originally Posted by GypsyGoth

I disagree, I think american is a wonderful place, and the government does what it has to in order to maintain that wonderful place for as many of it's citizens as possible.

And Bradley Manning hasn't opened anyone's eyes, people who hate america and it's government did so before Bradley Manning's released info, now of course it's handy to list the bad things they've done to justify their hatred of the country.

Bradley Manning took a job in the american military, he should have thought about his fellow soldiers, before giving out this info to the public as it's only used by the people who hate his country and his government.

You forget, Bradley Manning was a soldier, serving his country. The judge Denise Lind has already adjudicated that what he released didn't aid any enemy, imaginary or real. She has had to invoke some archaic catch-all law dating from 1917 about espionage to charge him. A law which is completely incongruous with the case against him.

If you think people hate America, you're right, they do. America is the ROman Empire of today. It maintains its economic dominancy of the world by military means, just like the old Roman Empire. It is proactively imperialistic. But it will be tolerated and supported for the mos part so long as it is benign. It is watched closely and Manning fulfilled his legal duty to report war crimes. He complied with his legal duty to obey lawful orders but also his legal duty to disobey unlawful orders.

Section 499 of the Army Field Manual states, "Every violation of the law of war is a war crime." The law of war is contained in the Geneva Conventions.

Article 85 of the First Protocol to the Geneva Conventions describes making the civilian population or individual civilians the object of attack as a grave breach. The firing on and killing of civilians shown in the "Collateral Murder" video violated this provision of Geneva.

Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions requires that the wounded be collected and cared for. Article 17 of the First Protocol states that the civilian population "shall be permitted, even on their own initiative, to collect and care for the wounded." That article also says, "No one shall be harmed . . . for such humanitarian acts." The firing on rescuers portrayed in the "Collateral Murder" video violates these provisions of Geneva.