Veterans For Peace Stands with Chelsea Manning and Julian Assange
Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning are both in jail right now. They are being persecuted by the very elite who are pursuing regime change wars around the globe and who do not want the people to know the truth about what they are up to.
Curiously, Assange has been charged with conspiring with Chelsea Manning to break into a classified Army computer in 2010. Regardless of the questionable allegations that WikiLeaks collaborated with Trump and the Russians to undermine Hillary Clinton's presidential bid, WikiLeaks did a great service by publishing evidence of U.S. war crimes. The charges against Assange go back nine years to when Chelsea Manning provided WikiLeaks with the 'Collateral Murder' video and the Army's daily after action reports from Iraq and Afghanistan. That is what the U.S. government is choosing to focus on, at least initially.
What Chelsea Manning released through WikiLeaks was evidence of the routine killing of civilians by US forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the routine cover-up of these war crimes. The Iraq War Logs and the Afghan War Diaries also revealed that military and civilian leaders were lying to the U.S. people when they presented rosy assessments of the progress of those wars. If more people had paid attention to these revelations, many thousands of lives could have been saved. ...
Chelsea explained her own motivation:
'I believed if the public, particularly the American public, could see this it could spark a debate on the military and our foreign policy in general as it applied to Iraq and Afghanistan. It might cause society to reconsider the need to engage in counter terrorism while ignoring the human situation of the people we engaged with every day.... I felt I accomplished something that would allow me to have a clear conscience.'
From the VeteransForPeace.org
Curiously, Assange has been charged with conspiring with Chelsea Manning to break into a classified Army computer in 2010. Regardless of the questionable allegations that WikiLeaks collaborated with Trump and the Russians to undermine Hillary Clinton's presidential bid, WikiLeaks did a great service by publishing evidence of U.S. war crimes. The charges against Assange go back nine years to when Chelsea Manning provided WikiLeaks with the 'Collateral Murder' video and the Army's daily after action reports from Iraq and Afghanistan. That is what the U.S. government is choosing to focus on, at least initially.
What Chelsea Manning released through WikiLeaks was evidence of the routine killing of civilians by US forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the routine cover-up of these war crimes. The Iraq War Logs and the Afghan War Diaries also revealed that military and civilian leaders were lying to the U.S. people when they presented rosy assessments of the progress of those wars. If more people had paid attention to these revelations, many thousands of lives could have been saved. ...
Chelsea explained her own motivation:
'I believed if the public, particularly the American public, could see this it could spark a debate on the military and our foreign policy in general as it applied to Iraq and Afghanistan. It might cause society to reconsider the need to engage in counter terrorism while ignoring the human situation of the people we engaged with every day.... I felt I accomplished something that would allow me to have a clear conscience.'
From the VeteransForPeace.org
