Look how tiny Bradley Manning is, physically.
What he is accused of doing is enormous.
The Wikileaks data show the war on terror is a lie.
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Thanks for the link. 
you're starting to get a bit cranky.
And Salon blogs isn't the same as Salon.
The dude is quoting Wayne fucking Madsen. 
You always come up with the best stuff.
Sid
Likely, he recognized the bullshit when he saw it.
JFK...psychic!
was a Moonie rag if you recall. And you want to speak of old friends who are now tombstoned. I'm happy to do that, although frankly I could not care less who is or isn't 'tombstoned', I care about important things. However to humor you, I remember well a few of your old friends who are now tombstoned, who used so many right wing talking points and who you supported right up until they were tombstoned. Remember them? Lol, there's an old saying, 'people in glass houses should not throw stones'. So, being this is so important a topic to you, much as I hate to mention people who are no longer here, it doesn't fair as they cannot defend themselves, I will be more than happy to supply the names of your old tomb stoned friends. A lot of people would probably get a kick out of remembering them. It is very petty though and I'm not into 'petty' much, but just to oblige you.
Do you really think that being banned from an internet forum is such a tragedy that you view it as some kind of terrible event? It's the INTERNET! It's like playing chess, a game, people are banned all the time from internet forums, they go on to other, and sometimes much better things where they get even more attention to publish their POVs.
Don't take the internet so seriously, and don't ever think that just because they are not posting here anymore, they are not posting on even bigger forums, some even on TV now. Did you know that? v Lol, I love it when you mention BBI, I'm sure s/he does to, s/he really got to you I guess. You shouldn't let people get to you like that, it's bad for you. YOU care about these petty little things, that's fine, we know that. We don't care.
Here, let me help you. If you want to 'get to' me, eg, you have to do it with facts. You have to prove me wrong about something. THAT'S the only way you could affect me. So far, that has never happened. I just find you amusing which is why, unlike so many others, I do not have you on ignore despite disagreeing with you on almost everything. I'm a Liberal Democrat so that goes without saying. You do add some light entertainment to DU, you're so 'concerned' about the internet and who is doing what, or who said what seven years ago. It's beyond fascinating.
I don't get why people get themselves so worked up over a discussion board that they keep track of everything that goes on. It makes me wonder if they have any lives outside of the internet. I hope someday to write a dissertation on this phenomenon. It's one of the most fascinating things to me. Adults acting like children 'nyah, nyah, 'your friend' is in trubbbbble'! Just beyond belief to watch sometimes. I get such a kick out of it, but then I have a weird sense of humor.
Btw, BBI was just another of thousands of liberal commenters I have met on the internet. It was a game for quite a few of them to work hard to get themselves banned from forums for one reason or another. BBI obviously wanted that, who knows why, that is his/her business and no concern of mine. I can't believe you didn't know that, everyone else did. It took a while but they succeeded in the end.
But for you to be so obsessed with him/her, well, I guess that hands them the victory they wanted. They have become immortal, thanks to you. Obsessions are bad for people, worse than getting banned and then moving on to better things because life really is more important than online political forums. Especially if you have children and other family and friends who take up most of your time which most of us do. Lighten up, obsessing over things that no one much cares about must be hard to deal with. I wish I had the spare time you seem to have to focus on these irrelevant things. But most of us do not.
And you better believe it. Lol!
I mean, here's a post of mine from 2004, well before you were even a DUer, where I criticized the use of the Washington Times:
http://metamorphosis.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=743546&mesg_id=743553
I look forward to the link, if it even exists. And if it does exist, in what context it was used.
Sid
making an accusation, then not having the evidence to back it up. Pretty fucking weak.
"I remember it well, that's good enough for me". I'm calling you on your bullshit this time. You made the accusation. Prove it.
You really thought you had a "gotcha" there, didn't you?
A quick search of your name and "Washington Times" shows a pile of posts over the last while where you obliquely accuse me of using the Washington Times as a source.
You made the fucking claim. Back it up or retract it and apologize.
Sid
and the best part is that you don't know when you're being hilarious.
Maybe, since you're such a top-notch researcher, you can help sabrina find the evidence of my use of the Washington Times as a source.
The "I remember it well, that's good enough for me" ploy is going to be great fun to use, tho.
"Hey, I don't think you should have linked to StormFront"
"What? I didn't link to StormFront."
"Sure you did. Don't you remember?"
"Prove it!"
"I don't have time to look for it. I remember it well, that's good enough for me."
"Hey, David Duke isn't a source you should use at DU"
"I didn't use David Duke. What are you talking about?"
"Ah. I remember it well, that's good enough for me."
"Hey, why did you link to that white-nationalist, anti-Immigration, VDARE hate-site fundraiser?"
** crickets **
Sid
there was/is no martial law, and no OWSers were sent to FEMA "detention camps."
come on...
Allen L Roland is a regular columnist at Veterans Today, a site considered by the SPLC to be a hate site.
http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2011/01/06/buyer-beware-veterans-today-and-its-anti-israel-agenda/
His article "On Obama I and II", at Veterans Today, featured this lovely picture.
Globalresearch isn't much better. But DU conspiracy theorists love sites like those.
Sid
here is a picture of an CID agent wearing a similar blue polo shirt Manning's escorts are wearing.
Why would you need to worry about plausible deniability or posse comitatus? Manning is in the military justice system. The military does have law enforcement officers.
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The top ranks are where the troublemakers lie.
("I got one of them PACs, too."
Beep! Beep! Beep! Beep!
... 
I don't recall the minimum size requirement to get in the military, but he must be right at the cut-off.
..."It's the size of the fight in the dog."
Bradley Manning is one tough soldier. HOOAH!!!!!!!
Let me put it in the words of the comandeer-n-thief, George Walker Bush, on Feb. 14, 2007:
"Money trumps peace." Then the guy laughed.
Why no reporter asked him what he meant would have saved a lot of trouble, treasure and lives.
I won't be able to watch the vid until I'm at home 
[font size="1"]Warmonger, print by John Carroll.[/font size]
In answer to a question during his press conference of Feb. 14, 2007, Gov. George W Bush said: “Money trumps peace.”
Q: A lot of our allies in Europe do a lot of business with Iran. So I wonder what your thoughts are about how you further tighten the financial pressure on Iran, in particular, if it also means economic pain for a lot of our allies.
BUSH: It's an interesting question. One of the problems, not specifically on this issue, just in general, that - let's put it this way: Money trumps peace, sometimes.
In other words, commercial interests are very powerful interests throughout the world. And part of the issue in convincing people to put sanctions on a specific country is to convince them that it's in the world's interest that they forego their own financial interest.
And that's why sometimes it's tough to get tough economic sanctions on countries, and I'm not making any comment about any particular country, but you touched on a very interesting point.
You know - so, therefore, we're constantly working with nations to convince them that what really matters in the long run is to have the environment so peace can flourish.
In the Iranian case, I firmly believe that, if they were to have a weapon, it would make it difficult for peace to flourish, and therefore I am working with people to make sure that that concern trumps whatever commercial interests may be preventing governments from acting.
I make no specific accusation with that statement. It's a broad statement. But it's an accurate assessment of what sometimes can halt multilateral diplomacy from working.
SOURCE:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6416108...
“Money trumps peace.”
That explains a lot. In fact, that explains everything about everything in regards to Bush and his cronies in the War Party. To them, money is everything.
It was odd, the way it rolled out of the crazy monkey’s mouth. Its off-the-cuff naturalness was at odds with Bush’s customary strangulation of the English language. “Money trumps peace” was obviously a phrase he was familiar with, one he had used often. Judging from his record, it’s likely the saying was something he had learned at home.
“Money trumps peace.”
When I heard it I was infuriated.
Later, came the shocker. News Flash: “Bush tells the truth.”
Then Duhbya adds:
“Sometimes.”
And all was normal, for that was a lie. Part of the Big Lie, actually. You see, to the Bush Family Evil Empire – the War Party, Money Trumps Peace. ALWAYS.
Money also trumps Truth.
Money also trumps Loyalty.
To Bush and the people he works for, Money is Everything.
Why? Because Money buys Power. And Power gives them more Money.
Dog and hood applied as weapons of torture, Abu Ghraib Prison, Baghdad.
Remember how Poppy gave April Glaspie the green-light for Saddam’s move into Iraq, back in 1990? Well, that may’ve been good enough for Lee Hamilton, but it didn’t sell the American people on making war for oil in the Middle East. Poppy and Cheney had to think up a causus belli with legs, so they came up with “WMDs.”
Anyway, the main witness for the prosecution just got hanged, but here he is in better days:
Shifting Price of Oil
TARIQ AZIZ: Our policy in OPEC opposes sudden jumps in oil prices.
HUSSEIN: Twenty-five dollars a barrel is not a high price.
GLASPIE: We have many Americans who would like to see the price go above $25 because they come from oil-producing states.
HUSSEIN: The price at one stage had dropped to $12 a barrel and a reduction in the modest Iraqi budget of $6 billion to $7 billion is a disaster.
GLASPIE: I think I understand this. I have lived here for years. I admire your extraordinary efforts to rebuild your country. I know you need funds. We understand that and our opinion is that you should have the opportunity to rebuild your country. But we have no opinion on the Arab-Arab conflicts, like your border disagreement with Kuwait.
I was in the American Embassy in Kuwait during the late 60's. The instruction we had during this period was that we should express no opinion on this issue and that the issue is not associated with America. James Baker has directed our official spokesmen to emphasize this instruction. We hope you can solve this problem using any suitable methods via Klibi or via President Mubarak. All that we hope is that these issues are solved quickly. With regard to all of this, can I ask you to see how the issue appears to us?
My assessment after 25 years' service in this area is that your objective must have strong backing from your Arab brothers. I now speak of oil But you, Mr. President, have fought through a horrific and painful war. Frankly, we can see only that you have deployed massive troops in the south. Normally that would not be any of our business. But when this happens in the context of what you said on your national day, then when we read the details in the two letters of the Foreign Minister, then when we see the Iraqi point of view that the measures taken by the U.A.E. and Kuwait is, in the final analysis, parallel to military aggression against Iraq, then it would be reasonable for me to be concerned. And for this reason, I received an instruction to ask you, in the spirit of friendship -- not in the spirit of confrontation -- regarding your intentions.
I simply describe the position of my Government. And I do not mean that the situation is a simple situation. But our concern is a simple one.
SOURCE:
http://www.chss.montclair.edu/english/furr/glaspie.html
Carlyle Group heavyweights include (clockwise from top, left)
James Baker III (represents all of Saudi Arabia named in a trillion-dollar lawsuit by 9-11 families),
George Herbert Walker (Poppy) Bush (poster boy for Plausible Deniability),
William E. Kennard (converted expertise as chair of the FCC into service for CG’s US Buyout and Telecom & Media desks), and
Frank Carlucci (college roommate of one Donald Rumsfeld).
Yes. War is Big Business. Mighty Profitable, too. No wonder some might say, let alone think, “Money trumps peace.”
War Profiteers
Profits Over Patriotism in Iraq
By Robert L. Borosage, Eric Lotke and Robert Gerson
The tales sound like tortures from the Arabian Nights. Drivers sent to their deaths in empty convoys dispatched because the contractor is paid by the trip; men stripped naked in prison and attacked by dogs; troops in the desert drinking contaminated water, waiting for meals that never come.
But the stories are not fiction. They come from the American occupation in Iraq, a military operation that has privatized war to an unprecedented degree, using private, commercial companies for everything from feeding the troops to patrolling the streets.
This report explores the unprecedented use of private contractors during the Iraq war and occupation. It shows how the catastrophic failures in Iraqi reconstruction derive directly from the conservative ideology and policies of those who drove this —“war of choice.”
—“There’s a lot of money to pay for this. We are dealing with a country that can really finance its own reconstruction and relatively soon.”
Paul Wolfowitz, Deputy Defense Secretary1
— “I am reasonably certain that they will greet us as liberators, and that will help us keep the requirements down…. (W)e can say with reasonable confidence that the notion of hundreds of thousands of American soldiers is way off the mark.”
Paul Wolfowitz, Deputy Defense Secretary2I.
SNIP…
5—“I can unequivocally state that the abuse related to contracts awarded to KBR (Halliburton) represents the most blatant and improper contract abuse I have witnessed during the course of my professional career.”
Testimony of Bunnatine Greenhouse, the highest ranking civilian in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.11
CONTINUED with all the details as of September 2006…
http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:Q66wS6XXvqsJ:home.ourfuture.org/reports/report-war-profiteers.pdf+war-profiteers+borosage+lotke+gerson&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us
PDF of complete article above: http://home.ourfuture.org/reports/report-war-profiteers.pdf
That explains a hell of a lot.
That explains the Gulf of Tonkin and the lies to ramp up Vietnam.
That explains the Cold War and how the Soviets never really were a threat to America.
That explains the Star Wars bogus missile bogus defense rip-off.
That explains Gulf War I and how Poppy lied to America about Saddam’s WMDs and a threat to Saudi Arabian oil back in 1990.
That explains sucking up to the Taliban by Texas Oil and ENRON way back when.
That explains 911, and how Bush and his crew ignored all those warnings and dots.
That explains why they tied 911 to Iraq and why Junior Monkey lied to America about WMDs in order to illegally invade Iraq.
That explains their warmongering ways.
It is their heritage. "The War Party."
Well, one woman has had the courage to stand up to these warmongers. Her name is Cindy Sheehan. She lost her son, Casey, on April 4, 2004 in George W. Bush’s War.
The Taming of Evil, painting by Renata Palubinskas.
Not much mention was made of Bush’s pronouncement in the “Main Stream Press,” but that is to be expected from Corporate McPravda – their job is to protect the crazy monkey with cufflinks.
Ms. Sheehan wrote an excellent article on the subject.
Cindy Sheehan: Money Trumps Peace...Sometimes
A BUZZFLASH GUEST CONTRIBUTION
by Cindy Sheehan
Submitted by BuzzFlash on Thu, 02/15/2007 - 10:23am. Guest Contribution
It is always painful to watch George stumble his way through press conferences. He can't get through a sentence without at least two-three "uhs," his eyelids flutter up and down in what my daughter Carly calls the "liar's blink." It is painful that a human like that is ostensibly the leader of the free world. There is always a plethora of things that he says, does, or screws up on to write about but this time what caught my attention happened during the Q&A. George was asked if he thought the economic sanctions on Iran would work because so many European nations trade with that country.
He stopped to collect his thoughts with what he thought must've looked like a studied and careful demeanor, but more like someone with a sour tummy, and said: "well, let's put it this way...money trumps peace, sometimes. In other words, commercial interests are very powerful interests throughout the world." (I added the italics.) It is always interesting with people who frequently play fast and loose with the truth, such as the liars in BushCo, once in a while if they talk long enough, they tell a truth.
"Money trumps peace" is the fundamental reason for the invasions and subsequent gory and violent occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan. In Richard Behan's excellent article "From Iraq to Afghanistan: Connecting the Dots with Oil," he brilliantly follows the history of the oil-money trail in these countries that are 1) rich in oil, and 2) well placed for the transportation and delivery of oil. Neither Iraq nor Afghanistan, or their leaders or governments had anything to do with 9-11, but they were in the way of oil and other industries that profit from oil, so they had to go. Money trumped peace in those countries and they are destroyed and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, Afghanis, and Americans have been slaughtered because they were blocking American imperialistic profiteering.
"Money trumps peace" is the underlying reason for all wars as two-time Congressional Medal of Honor winner and highly decorated Major General Smedley D. Butler wrote in his reflective, prophetic work, "War is a Racket":
WAR is a racket. It always has been.
It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.
A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small "inside" group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the very many. Out of war, a few people make huge fortunes.
CONTINUED…
http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/contributors/792
It isn’t fair to call them the BFEE. For they are more than a single family representing the interests of the world’s monied or gangster classes. They are more of a movement of the greedy.
Theirs is the real axis of evil – a line running through the hearts of men who use people as cannon fodder, enslave the survivors for profit, and envision a future where their chosen descendants thrive as royalty.
It is clear, theirs, truly, is a culture of death. They are a culture of warmongers. They are merchants of death. To such, money does trump everything. They worship Mammon. They are the War Party.
You should see the replies on DU then:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x250447
Where are your priorities, Dreamer Tatum?
size of the tiny soldier committing treason, it is the size of the treason committed by the tiny soldier.
Yep!
How anyone could call this twerp a "mental giant" is beyond me.
