I was afraid it would come to this. On Thursday, Bradley Manning appeared in court in Fort Meade, Maryland and read a 35 page statement about his actions and motivations behind the leaking of information. Manning had been a US Army intelligence analyst stationed in Iraq, and he he was increasingly disillusioned about the things he saw as part of his job (which included combat video and diplomatic cables). Among his statements about his leaking of the famous 2007 videotape of an Apache helicopter attack on 22-year-old Reuters photographer, Namir Noor-Eldeen, and his driver, Saeed Chmagh, which killed both of them and 10 others and wounded two children:
“The most alarming aspect of the video to me, however, was the seemly delightful bloodlust they appeared to have. They dehumanized the individuals they were engaging and seemed to not value human life by referring to them as quote ‘dead bastards’ unquote and…
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#Op Manning 
God bless Bradley Manning!
Ruben Botello, Disabled USMC Vietnam Veteran