Bradley Edward Manning Quotes
I initially agreed with these methods and chose to volunteer to help defend my country. It was not until I was in Iraq and reading secret military reports on a daily basis that I started to question the morality of what we were doing. It was at this time I realized that (in) our efforts to meet the risk posed to us by the enemy, we have forgotten our humanity. We consciously elected to devalue human life both in Iraq and Afghanistan. When we engaged those that we perceived were the enemy, we sometimes killed innocent civilians. Whenever we killed innocent civilians, instead of accepting responsibility for our conduct, we elected to hide behind the veil of national security and classified information in order to avoid any public accountability.
Chelsea Elizabeth Manning
Bradley Edward Manning, Soldier & Leaker of Secret Information, Letter to President Obama, August 22, 2013
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Chelsea Elizabeth Manning
Calley was the officer who gave orders to kill men, women and children of My Lai, a Vietnam village which Army intelligence felt had been sympathetic and given help and assistance to the Viet Cong. Calley was convicted by Court Marshall, but was released after serving a very light sentence. No one above Cally was held in any way responsible.
The United States is the only nation that overtly defines covert activity in its legal system. It makes these very subtle distinctions which seemed to many intelligence leaders like Lowenthal a distinction without much of a difference and an attempt by our democracy to make moral and legal distinctions so the dirty parts of the business of espionage seems consistent with an open democracy.
This may have been one of the most indelicate and insensitive true public statements ever made by a politician. The English population and their political representatives were angry and worried very much that bombing of cities might become a German pattern (which it did.)
The Wars continued over a decade, costing thousands of American (and Coalition) troops their lives, many more their limbs and mental well-being, with a monetary cost of over trillions of dollars, and the achievements have been few and meager.
small Jewish Zionist groups who unlike the majority Jewish organizations in Palestine used terror tactics After the 2nd World War, European Jews who had survived the holocaust were trying to emigrate to Palestine. The Arabs wanted all the Jews who were there to be gone. The English were caught in the middle and tried to limit the Jewish immigration. Most Jewish organizations worked to smuggle European Jews into Palestine but 2 small ones resorted to a type of terrorism. However, as the ambassador observed there was a large moral distinction between the terrorism of those 2 small Jewish Organizations and the current Palestinian terrorists. The important moral distinction is that the Jewish terrorists were fighting to establish their state with no program or desire to prevent Arabs from having their own state, but the Hamas terrorists of Palestine (not the Fatah Government) want not only to establish a Palestinian State but to destroy the Jewish State (Israel) and murder all the Jews that they can as their charter requires.
Chelsea Elizabeth Manning is an American activist and whistleblower. She is a former United States Army soldier who was convicted by court-martial in July 2013 of violations of the Espionage Act and other offenses, after disclosing to WikiLeaks nearly 750,000 classified, or unclassified but sensitive, military and diplomatic documents. She was imprisoned from 2010 until 2017 when her sentence was commuted. A trans woman, Manning stated in 2013 that she had a female gender identity since childhood and wanted to be known as Chelsea Manning. She also expressed a desire to begin hormone replacement therapy.
