Ten Revelations From Bradley Manning's WikiLeaks Documents

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36. Sigh

During the Iraq War, U.S. authorities failed to investigate hundreds of reports of abuse, torture, rape, and murder by Iraqi police and soldiers, according to thousands of field reports.

And succeeded in investigation thousands of reports of abuse, torture, rape, and murder by Iraqi police and soldiers.

There were 109,032 “violent deaths” recorded in Iraq between 2004 and 2009, including 66,081 civilians. Leaked records from the Afghan War separately revealed coalition troops’ alleged role in killing at least 195 civilians in unreported incidents, one reportedly involving U.S. service members machine-gunning a bus, wounding or killing 15 passengers.

Whereas the preceding sanctions regime killed millions.

The U.S. Embassy in Paris advised Washington to start a military-style trade war against any European Union country that opposed genetically modified crops, with U.S. diplomats effectively working directly for GM companies such as Monsanto.

That's essentially every canola and soy farmer in the country, but yes, agriculture debates between US and EU got ugly.

In Baghdad in 2007, a U.S. Army helicopter gunned down a group of civilians, including two Reuters news staff.

Still a lie, no matter how many times that is repeated. The men were armed. You can see their rifles in the video. Assange's added narration even mentions that.

U.S. special operations forces were conducting offensive operations inside Pakistan despite sustained public denials and statements to the contrary by U.S. officials.

True. We also knew that before Manning. Those operations are why Bin Ladin is now dead.

-A leaked diplomatic cable provided evidence that during an incident in 2006, U.S. troops in Iraq executed at least 10 Iraqi civilians, including a woman in her 70s and a 5-month-old, then called in an airstrike to destroy the evidence. The disclosure of this cable was later a significant factor in the Iraqi government’s refusal to grant U.S. troops immunity from prosecution beyond 2011, which led to U.S. troops withdrawing from the country.

Wurtrecht was convicted for that, and two others were separated from the service. We also knew about it without Manning.