Just a reminder: Desmond Tutu salutes Manning (and thank Hank, I am on the right side of history.)

[sabrina 1]

33. War logs, cables, war crimes on video. Support for Dictators and the cynical reasons why.

I see your acquaintance with the documents is rather limited.

I put no stock in any individual, especially in any politician. I put stock in proveen facts that are indisputable.

I put stock in seeing the children who were nearly murdered speak, shyly, hesitantly, still traumatized and probably always will be, about what happened to them. I see the terror in their beautiful eyes, and know that a crime was committed against them, a horrific crime, and our country is responsible, which means I am responsible unless I speak out strongly against it.

If just that one crime was committed in our name, it should be enough to horrify any decent people in this country. Just that one, enough.

I see apologists for the murder of children, for torture, for that crime multiplied, according to the two US soldiers who saved those children because as one of them said 'I did not lose my humanity' by tens of thousands. There SHOULD be outrage.

I see people on this site rightfully outraged when a crime is committed against ONE child here. But not a single expression of outrage for all the children, innocent children, in their OWN country where we do not belong, from some of those same people.

When politics causes cynicism to this point, where people can look at the dead bodies of children and look away and make excuses for it because of some misguided loyalty to a politician or a party, they are lost. They have lost their souls. Calling it 'pragmatic' or whatever other weasel words they come up with, doesn't restore their humanity. And I do not wish to associate with such people.

I will retain my horror at what we have done. I promised myself back when the first bomb fell on Baghdad that I would never allow myself to become immune to the murder that was being committed. And I have not.

Manning couldn't watch it either. He tried to report it. He didn't understand that we have become as monstrous as those we point fingers at. Now he does.