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(8,155 posts) Wed Aug 21, 2013, 09:58 PM Aug 2013

12,783 days...306,803 hours...18,408,200 minutes... [View all]

That's the length of time you must suffer if you knowingly divulge confidential evidence of US war crimes. That on top of the other forms of torture suffered upon you before conviction.

Jesus Christ, what have we done.

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12,783 days...306,803 hours...18,408,200 minutes... [View all] Gravitycollapse Aug 2013 OP

Heartbreaking! hrmjustin Aug 2013 #1

Probably shouldn't release hundreds of thousands of chunks of classified info that you signed up TwilightGardener Aug 2013 #2

++1,000. nt kelliekat44 Aug 2013 #3

"Actions, they have consequences." - Unless you're the state. Then actions have no consequences. Gravitycollapse Aug 2013 #4

Or a corporation type person. n/t CincyDem Aug 2013 #6

Or from the right family. n/t Egalitarian Thug Aug 2013 #16

Correct. sagat Aug 2013 #5

Maybe Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Wolfowitz shouldn't have conspired to start a war where men, women liberal_at_heart Aug 2013 #7

Or at least stick to stealing the docs that you have the issue with and not thousands more Egnever Aug 2013 #8

"I think the sentence shows a lot of compassion on the judges part." - That's a joke, right? Gravitycollapse Aug 2013 #10

blah blah blah Egnever Aug 2013 #11

Yeah, I'm pretty outraged that we just sentenced someone to more than third of a century... Gravitycollapse Aug 2013 #12

you are a poopie butt blah blah Egnever Aug 2013 #15

You are mean spirited and should honestly be ashamed of your words. Gravitycollapse Aug 2013 #17

LOL Egnever Aug 2013 #18

No, I don't give a shit if you call me a poopie head. Is that what you got out of this? Gravitycollapse Aug 2013 #19

Reading comprehension? That's rich Egnever Aug 2013 #22

"government misbehavior" - Apologist rhetoric aimed at diminishing the severity... Gravitycollapse Aug 2013 #24

Tell it to the 100's of afghans he exposed as working with the US Egnever Aug 2013 #28

The lack of redaction is Wiki Leaks fault, not Manning. Gravitycollapse Aug 2013 #29

That has to be the weakest defense I have ever heard Egnever Aug 2013 #31

... Summer Hathaway Aug 2013 #30

Message auto-removed Name removed Aug 2013 #13

You're absolutely bonkers if you think 35 years is getting "off light." Gravitycollapse Aug 2013 #14

Message auto-removed Name removed Aug 2013 #32

How about this ... sabrina 1 Aug 2013 #20

Honestly, I want to meet these posters in person... Gravitycollapse Aug 2013 #21

Let me know when you are in Vegas Egnever Aug 2013 #23

How old are you? Gravitycollapse Aug 2013 #25

Good lord Egnever Aug 2013 #26

Listen, if you're too afraid to give your age, you're likely not capable of meeting in person. Gravitycollapse Aug 2013 #27

There are Maldivians in jail for longer than that because of what he did Recursion Aug 2013 #9