Senate Torture Report almost gets Manning tortured....again

The difference between we true patriots in the peace party and the false patriots of the war party is this: They tortured former Army Pfc. Chelsea Manning for a year and then sentenced her to 35 years for disseminating information on our criminal Iraq and Afghan wars. We would give Manning the Presidential Medal of Freedom, possibly even the Nobel Peace Prize for essentially giving up her freedom for decades to publicize criminal governmental war conduct.

But Uncle Sam isn't through punishing Manning, threatening to send him to solitary confinement, considered by many in the criminal justice system as torture, for get this, possessing and reading the Senate Torture Report which identified systematic torture practiced by the US government and military. That is bizarre beyond all comprehension, but when it comes to defending and covering up war crimes, nothing is too bizarre and too despicable for the war party. If the Senate Torture Report was too thin a reason to put Manning in solitary, there were other grievous transgressions; a copy of Vanity Fair featuring fellow transgender Caitlin Jenner, and a tube of expired toothpaste. Fortunately, Manning, though denied counsel in the hearing on her violations, benefitted from world wide public outrage and was merely sentenced to three weeks loss of privileges in the library, gym and exercise yard.

Meanwhile, the real traitors who lied us into criminal war getting hundreds of thousands killed and splintering Iran into smithereens; Bush, Cheney, Rice and Rumsfeld, live in splendid luxury with their millions garnered from fealty to the war party.

To sum up in seven words: Free Manning; jail Bush, Cheney, Rice, Rumsfeld