Am I mistaken? Or did Manning sign up for the armed forces well beyond the time most of us knew that the war in Iraq was wrong and illegal? I’m sorry, but I still don’t see the heroism. S/he has no excuse to pretend to be naive of what s/he was signing up for, that upon coming into knowledge of the facts, it was oath-breakingly worthwhile to do so, to the point where s/he feels the sentence is wrong. Give me a break. I am totally against the Iraq war – the one that Manning willfully signed up to help perpetrate. I still don’t think a pardons in any way shape or form to be expected.
