Bradley Manning charged in WikiLeaks case

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43. That isn't evidence that it's legal.

That's evidence that we're a rogue state with a rogue government. It was illegal by international law, and under our own Constitution. It was a war that everybody outside of Congress officially called a war. Congress evaded declaring it by name just because if it had called it what it was there would have been no evading that the action is illegal. It was Orwellian doublespeak.

Congress has the power to declare war. Beyond a narrow scope and theater, military action outside our borders is illegal. By declaring war by another name, Congress acted illegally. Democrats and Republicans.

Compared to our government, most especially the Bush administration who pushed the Iraq war, Manning should be canonized. I could only hope Obama or some president pardons him, and I don't have any real hope of that. It's less likely than Bush being prosecuted, I'm afraid.

Anyone who calls themselves a Democrat and doesn't support Manning should be ashamed. He's a hero in the same way Daniel Ellsberg was.