Manning: The American Conscience
Thursday, November 17, 2011 at 11:17PM The whistleblowers who exposed the mishandling of remains of deceased American soldiers were rightly praised for revealing the outrage.
Compare this to President Obama’s treatment of a suspected whistleblower in an earlier crime.
In April 2010 WikiLeaks released a video recording of American soldiers in helicopters happily shooting a dozen unarmed people walking on a Baghdad street (www.collateralmurder.com). They even killed the wounded Reuters newsman Saaed Chmagh and two rescuers who tried to help him.
The recording picks up the congratulatory comment, “good shooting.”
Did Obama order an investigation of this massacre? Hardly! Instead he ordered the arrest of 22-year-old PFC Bradley Manning, suspected of giving the recording to WikiLeaks.
On April 21, 2011, President Obama was asked why Manning was still being held and abused at the Marine Corps base in Quantico, VA. Our Commander in Chief gave an astonishing response. “He broke the law,” said Obama. (Never mind the fact that Manning has not been tried, let alone convicted of anything.)
Today Obama has still done nothing about the massacre.
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