No soldiers received any punishment for the killing of five Iraqi children, four women and two men in one Ishaqi home in 2006. Among the U.S. diplomatic cables leaked by Bradley Manning was email from a UN official stating that U.S. soldiers had "executed all of them." When Wikileaks published the cable, the uproar in Iraq was so big
that the Nouri al-Maliki government couldn't grant any remaining U.S.
troops immunity from prosecution in Iraqi courts, thus forcing the Obama
administration to abandon its plans to keep several thousand U.S. soldiers in Iraq permanently. All U.S. troops were removed at the end of 2011.
My
guess is Bradley Manning will spend more time in jail than all of the
other soldiers in all of these cases put together. And thus, instead of
redeeming ourselves and asking forgiveness for the crimes that Spc.
Manning exposed, we will reaffirm to the world who we really are.
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Michael Francis Moore (born April 23, 1954) is an American film director, author, and social commentator. He is widely known for his outspoken, critical views on globalization, large corporations, gun violence, the Iraq War, and the George W. Bush administration. (more...)