The Deep State

[SuburbanFarmer]

He can't read, Mike.

[Okeefenokee]

Someone name the war crime, name who committed it, point out when the charge was made, anything.

Go for it.

[pineapplemike]

No you're right I'm sure the US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were on the up and up, nothing to see here

http://www.worldcantwait.net/index.php/ ... tting-them
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/ ... tary-leaks
https://www.breitbart.com/national-secu ... y-manning/
http://archive.pressthink.org/2010/07/2 ... fghan.html
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-j ... y-manning/
https://www.opednews.com/articles/Bradl ... 9-830.html
https://collateralmurder.wikileaks.org/
https://www.democracynow.org/2013/8/1/b ... onvictions

[SuburbanFarmer]

Someone name the war crime, name who committed it, point out when the charge was made, anything.

Go for it.

Very first link, halfway down. Jesus, you are an ass.

One of the things Manning is alleged to have leaked is the “Collateral Murder” video which depicts U.S. forces in an Apache helicopter killing 12 unarmed civilians, including two Reuters journalists, and wounding two children. People trying to rescue the wounded were also fired upon and killed. A U.S. tank drove over one body, cutting the man in half.

The actions of American soldiers shown in that video amount to war crimes under the Geneva Conventions, which prohibit targeting civilians, preventing the rescue of the wounded, and defacing dead bodies.

[Okeefenokee]

Someone name the war crime, name who committed it, point out when the charge was made, anything.

Go for it.

Very first link, halfway down. Jesus, you are an ass.

One of the things Manning is alleged to have leaked is the “Collateral Murder” video which depicts U.S. forces in an Apache helicopter killing 12 unarmed civilians, including two Reuters journalists, and wounding two children. People trying to rescue the wounded were also fired upon and killed. A U.S. tank drove over one body, cutting the man in half.

The actions of American soldiers shown in that video amount to war crimes under the Geneva Conventions, which prohibit targeting civilians, preventing the rescue of the wounded, and defacing dead bodies.

So where are the charges?

Or was that not really a war crime, but just squeamish civilians showing everyone they don't have the stomach to see what they send others to do?

I bet it's the second one.

[SuburbanFarmer]

Someone name the war crime, name who committed it, point out when the charge was made, anything.

Go for it.

Very first link, halfway down. Jesus, you are an ass.

One of the things Manning is alleged to have leaked is the “Collateral Murder” video which depicts U.S. forces in an Apache helicopter killing 12 unarmed civilians, including two Reuters journalists, and wounding two children. People trying to rescue the wounded were also fired upon and killed. A U.S. tank drove over one body, cutting the man in half.

The actions of American soldiers shown in that video amount to war crimes under the Geneva Conventions, which prohibit targeting civilians, preventing the rescue of the wounded, and defacing dead bodies.

So where are the charges?

Or was that not really a war crime, but just squeamish civilians showing everyone they don't have the stomach to see what they send others to do?

I bet it's the second one.

Or was it simply not prosecuted, because why the fuck would you, when the witness is ignored, the press doesn’t care, and you can just lock him away?

[Okeefenokee]

Very first link, halfway down. Jesus, you are an ass.

So where are the charges?

Or was that not really a war crime, but just squeamish civilians showing everyone they don't have the stomach to see what they send others to do?

I bet it's the second one.

Or was it simply not prosecuted, because why the fuck would you, when the witness is ignored, the press doesn’t care, and you can just lock him away?

Prosecuted for what, you dense motherfucker?

[pineapplemike]

Manning showed us through the documents he released that Iraqis have endured hundreds of rapes and murders, along with systematic torture by the military and police of the puppet government we installed. He let us know that none of these atrocities were investigated. He provided the data that showed us that between 2004 and 2009 there were at least 109,032 “violent deaths” in Iraq, including those of 66,081 civilians, and that coalition troops were responsible for at least 195 civilian deaths in unreported events. He allowed us to see in the video “Collateral Murder” the helicopter attack on unarmed civilians in Baghdad. It was because of Manning that we could listen to the callous banter between pilots as the Americans nonchalantly fired on civilian rescuers. Manning let us see a U.S. Army tank crush one of the wounded lying on the street after the helicopter attack. The actions of the U.S. military in this one video alone, as law professor Marjorie Cohn has pointed out, violate Article 85 of the First Protocol to the Geneva Conventions, which prohibits the targeting of civilians, Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions, which requires that wounded be treated, and Article 17 of the First Protocol, which permits civilians to rescue and care for wounded without being harmed. We know of this war crime and many others because of Manning. And the decision to punish the soldier who reported these war crimes rather than the soldiers responsible for these crimes mocks our pretense of being a nation ruled by law.

[Okeefenokee]

Manning showed us through the documents he released that Iraqis have endured hundreds of rapes and murders, along with systematic torture by the military and police of the puppet government we installed. He let us know that none of these atrocities were investigated. He provided the data that showed us that between 2004 and 2009 there were at least 109,032 “violent deaths” in Iraq, including those of 66,081 civilians, and that coalition troops were responsible for at least 195 civilian deaths in unreported events. He allowed us to see in the video “Collateral Murder” the helicopter attack on unarmed civilians in Baghdad. It was because of Manning that we could listen to the callous banter between pilots as the Americans nonchalantly fired on civilian rescuers. Manning let us see a U.S. Army tank crush one of the wounded lying on the street after the helicopter attack. The actions of the U.S. military in this one video alone, as law professor Marjorie Cohn has pointed out, violate Article 85 of the First Protocol to the Geneva Conventions, which prohibits the targeting of civilians, Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions, which requires that wounded be treated, and Article 17 of the First Protocol, which permits civilians to rescue and care for wounded without being harmed. We know of this war crime and many others because of Manning. And the decision to punish the soldier who reported these war crimes rather than the soldiers responsible for these crimes mocks our pretense of being a nation ruled by law.

Where are the war crimes? Do you not speak english?

Iraqis killing Iraqis is every fucking day. Has nothing to do with Americans or war crimes.

Civilians dying on the battlefield is not a war crime.

Reporters dying on the battlefield is not a war crime.

You know we bombarded Baghdad with artillery before we went in, right? You think there might have been a few civilian deaths from that?

It's war. Shit happens. You'd know that if you didn't sit it the fuck out.

[pineapplemike]