“ For those not familiar with Bradley Manning, he was the one who leaked the Collateral Murder video to Wikileaks. The video details the slaughter of innocent Iraqi civilians and journalists by American soldiers. Amongst the injured were 2 children whose father was killed. When the journalists' families asked about how they were killed, they were lied to. For revealing the true casualties of war, Manning was put into solitary confinement and tortured without trial.”

“ Nobel Peace Prize nominee PFC Bradley Manning, a 24-year-old Army

intelligence analyst, is accused of releasing the Collateral Murder video, that shows the killing of unarmed civilians and two Reuters journalists, by a US Apache helicopter crew in Iraq. He is also accused of sharing the Afghan War Diary, the Iraq War Logs, and series of embarrassing US diplomatic cables. These documents were published by the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks, and they have illuminated such issues as the true number and cause of civilian casualties in Iraq, along with a number of human rights abuses by U.S.-funded contractors and foreign militaries, and the role that spying and bribes play in international diplomacy. Given the war crimes exposed, if PFC Bradley Manning was the source for these documents, he should be given a medal of honor.”

http://www.bradleymanning.org/

Do what do you guys think? Should he be free? Is what he did right?

I can't think of what to say right now, but I definitely do support him.

>>1 No. That's not even close to what would give you a Congressional Medal of Honer. The requirements for that award specifically are: that a recipient has "distinguished himself conspicuously by gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty". The act also clarified that the act of valor must occur during one of three circumstances:
While engaged in action against an enemy of the United States
While engaged in military operations involving conflict with an opposing foreign force.
While serving with friendly foreign forces engaged in an armed conflict against an opposing armed force in which the United States is not a belligerent party.

>>3 I meant "honor". Typo.

>>3 Yeah that is true. I just copied and pasted, sorry.