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Resistance See other Resistance Articles Title: Manning says US public lied to about Iraq from the start. Yahoo... . . ..New York (AFP) - The detained US soldier convicted of leaking a trove of secret documents to WikiLeaks made a rare foray into public life Saturday to warn Americans they were being lied to about Iraq once more. Chelsea Manning is serving a 35-year prison sentence on espionage charges and other offenses for passing along 700,000 secret documents, including diplomatic cables and military intelligence files, to anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks in the largest-scale leak in US history. "I understand that my actions violated the law. However, the concerns that motivated me have not been resolved," the soldier formerly known as Bradley Manning wrote in a New York Times editorial. "As Iraq erupts in civil war and America again contemplates intervention, that unfinished business should give new urgency to the question of how the United States military controlled the media coverage of its long involvement there and in Afghanistan." President Barack Obama said this week he was "looking at all the options" to halt the offensive that has brought militants within 50 miles (80 kilometers) of Baghdad's city limits, but ruled out any return of US combat troops. Obama has been under mounting fire from Republican critics over the swift collapse of Iraq's security forces, which Washington spent billions of dollars training and equipping before pulling out its own troops in 2011. .U.S. Military Positioning Itself For Possible Acti …. Play Video While the US military was upbeat in its public outlook on the 2010 Iraqi parliamentary elections, suggesting it had helped bring stability and democracy to the country, "those of us stationed there were acutely aware of a more complicated reality," Manning wrote. "Military and diplomatic reports coming across my desk detailed a brutal crackdown against political dissidents by the Iraqi Ministry of Interior and federal police, on behalf of Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki. Detainees were often tortured, or even killed." Manning, a former US Army intelligence analyst, said he was "shocked by our military's complicity in the corruption of that election. Yet these deeply troubling details flew under the American media's radar." Criticizing the military's practice of embedding journalists, Manning charged that "the current limits on press freedom and excessive government secrecy make it impossible for Americans to grasp fully what is happening in the wars we finance." Manning is serving out the prison sentence at Fort Leavenworth in Kansas and had requested a name change after court-martial proceedings revealed the soldier's emotional turmoil over sexual identity. A US Army general denied clemency to Manning in April, upholding the 35-year sentence. Poster Comment: Jerry ...If the Government lies to us, if the Media lies to us, if the politicians lie to us, maybe we should start re-thinking how we got here!! If people don't start doing their own research before voting, and continue to take the word of those promoting the supported candidates, then we'll end up right where we belong, for being the sheep we're becoming. Then citizens, you'll really have something to complain about. Manning, Snowden, this is just the beginning of the veil being lifted!! Learn, read, research, know your history or, it will definitely repeat!!+358-10 DeAnAll political parties are a farce. All sides have been shored up and controlled by the 1% who maintain the order out of chaos. You people are still stuck on stupid if your thinking you can "Vote" your way into a better world and stop anything they do from happening. They already have the next candidate ready who will be president after Obama and his entire campaign is ready for him to push, or will it be her? They already played the minority card and got huge distractions and time out of it and sucked in vast support for their agenda's by it until people saw thru yet again a myriad of lies and deception. Now they will use a woman president to shock and awe you all and have you all fighting against each other and distracted as they push us even further towards their goals. You have to think outside the box like they do. problem is, is that they just adjust their deceptions as you all adjust to their lies so they guide you into their wicked little airport like a crippled plane and welcome you with a parade when you reach their end. and all along the way they will fill these comment sections with trolls who will try to convince everyone reading here you are chicken little screaming "the sky is falling" if you reveal any of their wicked ways. they will then follow your every post and movement on the net as that is their job and you are their target once you've exposed yourself to them and made it into their "Watch list". You are now a "Conspiracy nut!" Problem with that is, they have two many irons in the fire and their treachery is showing a lot more these days and people are getting more curious about the movement of the man behind the curtain then the smoke and light show. I just wish we could all wake a bit faster to save ourselves from what is coming. Wake up people! Michael...The goal of regime change in Iraq remained the consistent position of PNAC throughout the Iraq disarmament crisis. Richard Perle, who later became a core member of PNAC, was involved in similar activities to those pursued by PNAC after its formal organization. For instance, in 1996 Perle composed a report that proposed regime changes in order to restructure power in the Middle East. The report was titled A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm and called for removing Saddam Hussein from power, as well as other ideas to bring change to the region. The report was delivered to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.[8] Two years later, in 1998, Perle and other core members of the PNAC—Paul Wolfowitz, R. James Woolsey, Elliot Abrams, and John Bolton—"were among the signatories of a letter to President Clinton calling for the removal of Hussein." +10-1 Bill The land of the free and the home of the brave?? The government by the people for the people?? Guess we have allowed all this to be stolen from us. We keep on electing the same type of career politicians over & over at all levels of government, expecting to get different results each time OR just do not vote at all. So who's fault is it?? "We have met the enemy... and he is us" ~~ foreword to The Pogo Papers “Politicians are like diapers; they need to be changed often and for the same reason.” ~~ Mark Twain +52-3 Dan “If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it.” -- Mark Twain +2 John So you see it. Voting is irrelevant. So we NEED to use the other tool in our box, the 2nd Amendment. That was set up not for "HUNTERS" or "HOME PROTECTION" but to oppose invaders and remove tyrants. Maybe we need to remove the whole mess.+1-2 Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest
#1. To: Tatarewicz (#0)
Too bad so many Iraqis had to die for a lie. And too bad Americans are still coming to grips with it.
Americans enjoy believing in lies.
Personally I believe it is better to be rebuked by the truth rather than kissed with a lie.
______________________________________ Suspect all media / resist bad propaganda/Learn NLP everyday everyway ;) If you don't control your mind someone else will.
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