Why is Bradley Manning in prison whilst war criminals run free?

[Gandalf]

What is obvious is your complete ignorance about the U.S. Military and the secondary and tertiary effects of Mannings leak.

No, a war crime was commited and people went unpunished. It isn't a particularly complicated case to make looking at the attitudes and behaviour of the soldiers who commited the acts. It is clearly in the public interest to see this kind of footage.

In an age where the mainstream media refuses to pursue real stories, people like Manning become ever more important.

Assuming the video is as you say I don't disagree with first part of your post, it is your sweeping and uninformed generalizations about the U.S. Military that are incorrect. If the release leads to justice in the case of the video then great but that in no way changes the fact that Manning is a criminal and that the releases of those documents have caused people to lose their lives. He deserves the same justice as any other criminal.

Sure, he committed a crime so give him normal prison life. Not this solitary confinement torture. Not being allowed to sleep more than 4 hours in a row is evil treatment. I mean, incarcerate the man, but don't degrade him so. He is still a human being and seemingly a very good one.

What this story points out is the way power has sought to deflect and hasn't actually punished people for the more significant crime of blatant murder. Soldiers like in the video need to be weeded out as they are harmful to the US and in shielding them it makes the military elite themselves look very bad.

Those children have no father for no good reason. That cannot be allowed to go unpunished. If it does then it shows how degraded we ourselves have become. It is deplorable and shouldn't be so.