Bradley Manning: the face of heroism

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47. None of that has anything to do what he said, which was correct. Torturing a

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whistle-blower, or any detainee for that matter, putting it as mildly as he did, 'is counter-productive'. It is a crime which he refrained from saying publicly, but his statement did contribute to ending the shameful torture of Bradley Manning and that is what he will be remembered for. He spoke the truth, mild as it was, and was the only one who had the courage to do so publicly. They should have begged him to stay since it seems no one else has the guts to speak out about these matters. But then we would have to be a country that cared about humanitarian issues for that to happen. We are a long way from being such a country, as we have learned over the past decade or so.