As the trial of Pfc. Bradley Manning continued today, the Pentagon brought attention to one of the first leaks released, the video of a July 2007 massacre of Iraqi civilians, including the killing of two Reuters employees.
The video was first released to the public in April of 2010, and showed soldiers watching a group of civilians walking down the street, spied a Reuters cameraman’s camera, declaring it a “rocket launcher” and attacking. They then attacked a van that tried to rescue the wounded, killing several others and wounding two children.
Pentagon officials have been complaining about the leak of the video for some time, mostly angry about the embarrassment of getting caught lying about “combat operations” that never happened against a hostile force that never existed. Today though, they claimed it amounted to aid to the enemy.
The argument came from a Pentagon helicopter expert, who argued that the “attack plan” the helicopter used in massacre random civilians could conceivably teach militants how to better anticipate attacks against them.
This was a disclosure of a criminal act committed under purported color of law. Is the Army suggesting that crimes committed on the battlefield should not be revealed to a public that is ultimately responsible for the war and its policies? What a disingenuous argument by the Army to avoid accountability for its war crimes.
Corporate media always claims "protection of civilians" or confesses only "unwanted"collateral damage, but this is double-speech and double thinking, because actually anybody knows that the USA always and in all times does systematically target civilians and civilian infrastructure in order to create maximum deaths and maximum destruction. Finally this ensures submission under the interests of the corporations who are exploiting and ruling the USA and most of the world:
Just see history of completely leveled towns in Germany, Japan, Korea, eradicated villages in Vietnam, the secret B52 carpet bombing in Cambodia or Laos or the into-the-stone-age-bombings of Iraq, Yugoslavia, Libya.
Even the tactics of their mercenaries in Syria, where Chaos, refugees and targeted destruction of civilian infrastructure shows the US Army unconventional warfare methods.
Their "non-lethal communication devices", i.e. satellite phones and command&control laptops allow secretly to control even enemies fighting effectively for the US corporations, without really knowing it. When they cry Allah u akbar they do not know that their mighty god who enables their success with stingers, advanced anti-tank weapons or sniper rifles is actually the USA.
See details at http://08oo.wordpress.com/2012/05/30/key-reasons-…
For the media fraud of only collateral destruction in the war against Yugoslavia I suggest reading an article of Spanish Nato fighter pilots what they did really experience in this dirty bomb-to-stone-age-war: http://www.srpska-mreza.com/Kosovo/NATO-attack/sp…
Bradley Manning is a world citizen hero, who help mankind and the USA to show how the corporations who rule and exploit USA are trying to rule the world – on costs of lifes and money of US citizens and the whole planet.
Babylon… where even light is like darkness
Manning greatly reduced the ability of Empire USA to kill people, which greatly reduced the number of new terrorists, which greatly reduced the number of U.S. troops that get killed in combat.
Comes now our military to argue that Manning reducing their ability to kill their enemy, that this increased the ability of their enemy to kill them.
I would like to know who or what the enemy is. I am confused. Even the milititary seems to be confused about this question. Did the Taliban plan or execute or even know anything about 9/11 before it happened? This documentary shows how crazy our policies have become. http://news.antiwar.com/2013/06/13/pentagon-manni…
Aided the enemy ? The enemy was the US military. They simply hate being exposed for their dastardly deeds ! They are outraged that people might see that their so called white "good guy" hats are stained with blood, sadism, and malice in many cases.
The Pentagon is right, this will aid the "enemy" because the "enemy" will know how cowardly those fu*ks are.
…or maybe it'd help just about anyone anticipate being murdered.
I suppose the revelation of the My Lai incident back during the Vietnam war similarly helped the enemy by exposing US military tactics – showing that when peasants were being directed into drainage ditches that meant they were about to be massacred. The enemy could then potentially anticipate the massacre, putting the troops massacring the peasants at risk.