Revealing classified information, full well knowing you'll be jailed and tortured for it is undoubtedly a heroic act.
Oh give it a break!
First of all, Bradley Manning has NOT undergone anything approaching torture..........he has not been beaten, water-boarded, subjected to any form of physical coercion.
He HAS had his undies taken away......because he keeps threatening to kill himself, as if anyone could care, the stupid, self-loathing little pissant.
He is NOT allowed to mix with the other inmates.....because they are all military, and despite their obvious faults, one doubts their tolerance of treasonous little pricks.....and some of them may have a tendency to act out violently.
Now, imagine the outrage if poor wittle Bradley was found swinging in his cell, or was cut unto death in the showers........oh the Conspiracy Theories!!!!!
And the proof of Manning's absolute disregard for the oath he took, the well-being of his nation, or his own honor exists in the fact he did not pick out damaging material for release.....he let it ALL go.......
He deserves to be shot.
He is a treasonous little twit, without the slightest excuse other than his own lack of positive character.
It is my deepest hope that he spends the next 70 years in solitary, as execution is out of the question, as I understand it.
Revealing classified information, full well knowing you'll be jailed and tortured for it is undoubtedly a heroic act.
I've got to say it again.....this is the most brain-dead statement ever written on these threads..... absolutely beyond comprehension.