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

[Gandalf]

Military jail is tough. More so than a regular prison but it is pretty easy not to end up there and the whole sleep deprivation bit is absurd. There is so much oversight at military detention facilities now that there is no way his claims of sleep deprivation are true. If solitary confinement doesn't sound good to you then 1. Don't join the military and 2. If you do don't break the rules. Pretty easy thing to avoid. Miles you are aware that Army has tried and convicted somewhere around 10 Soldiers for crimes in Iraq/Afghanistan? LoW, Geneva, escalation of force and the rules of engagement are taken very seriously in the military.

I hope it is taken very seriously.

How about war crimes not be committed in the first place though? And how about absurd wars not be started too?

I have eased my stance on the US military in recent times because of my own experiences at the base and through interaction with people like you, but instances like this make me very angry.

You just cannot defend the killing of innocent people. And when you have criminals like Obama who lied to get elected and also have the media saying that someone like Manning is a liar and should be vilified. Well, that to me is a double standard. The small soldier suffers, whilst the power elite representative gets away scot free.

It is incredibly wrong.