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

[sabrina 1]

49. Well if you read them, perhaps you can explain why we are still supporting Karamov of Uzbekistan

whose human rights crimes against his own people are well documented, and confirmed in the 'memos' as you call them. Is there some reason why the US supports someone who has been accused of genocide against his own people? Was the British Ambassador who resigned in protest against his genocidal and torture policies lying?

Memo or not, we know the US is supporting him and we know why. Unless we do not have bases in Uzbekistan???

And that is just one teeny fraction of what we learned from those 'memos'. See, we don't just rely on the cables. Anyone who knows anything about news gathering knows that you use various different sources to try to verify a story. We knew even before the 'memos' as you call them, that the US was supporting the Dictator Karamov even while they lied about going to Iraq to remove a Dictator because the US 'only supports Democracy'. We saw the photos of Rumsfeld with Karamov and the fact that the US was handing over money to this Dictator while claiming to be opposed to Dictators.

We didn't really need the 'memos' to confirm those facts. We already had them. Just to use this one small part of what of what learned.

Then we read the 'memos' which were not news, merely confirmation with the added confirmation that the US KNEW he 'is a bad guy'. So every piece of information is valuable to the people who are the owners of this country, when trying to figure out how the people they hired are doing the job they gave them.

I could go on, but I look for the truth no matter where it leads, which is sometimes very hard to take when it turns out to be inconvenient to what you once believed. But in the end, the truth is all we have so I'll take the disappointments over supporting crimes for any reason, in order to help this country live up to its potential, which it sure isn't doing by supporting dictators and letting War Criminals off the hook.