08.21.2013, 02:40 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: NYC
Posts: 4,055
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Manning is a hero, if the media wasn't the voice of the tyrannical state we might know that. Here's what he was sentenced to 35 years for revealig - you won't get this from the official government/corporate news
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/08/...ning-revealed/
Here's what he revealed and why the traitors are so pissed off - anyone who bitches against Manning is a probably a fucking traitor.
" the existence of “Frago 242,” an order implemented in 2004 not to investigate allegations of abuse against the Iraqi government.
Helpless prisoners are blindfolded, bound, thrown into dungeons and tortured, they are beaten with “wire cables, metal rods, rubber hoses, wooden stakes, TV antennae, plastic water pipes, engine fan belts or chains,” burned with cigarettes, electrocuted, sodomized, some as young as 16 years of age. Some prisoners are summarily executed. (this frm http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2.../24/frago-242/)
DynCorp — a powerful defense contracting firm that claims almost $2 billion per year in revenue from U.S. tax dollars — threw a party for Afghan security recruits featuring boys purchased from child traffickers for entertainment. DynCorp had already faced human trafficking charges before this incident took place. According to the cables, Afghan Interior minister Hanif Atmar urged the assistant US ambassador to “quash” the story.
Guantanamo prison has held mostly innocent people and low-level operatives.
Between 2004 and 2009, the U.S. government counted a total of 109,000 deaths in Iraq, with 66,081 classified as non-combatants. This means that for every Iraqi death that is classified as a combatant, two innocent men, women or children are also killed (4).
cables show that in 2009, the U.S. Embassy in Port-au-Prince pushed then-Haitian President Rene Preval to come out in support of powerful textile manufacturers who sought to block a popular minimum wage increase. These factory owners, who produce apparel for large brands like Nike and Nautica
Known Egyptian torturers received training from the FBI in Quantico, Virginia.
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