Better a fool than a tool.

lol

All military actions?

What would that even entail?

When that army cook made those potatoes, they were overdone!

@Draugnar- Maybe, but being a fool is bad either way.
@Acosmist- I was refering to actions involving death.

@Garth (where's Wayne?) - You have posted a sum total of 21 forum posts and you have been defeated (not even a survive) in *every* game you have played here and you expect me to actually take your comments about my intellect seriously? Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha <*inhale*> hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

But I'll give you a chance to explain why *you* think I'm a fool. Every statement I made on the last page is a factual statement. You cannot deny my own experiences trying to get into West Point or New London and, considering I took the oath when I joined the Marine Corps in 1984 and the Corps insisted we understand fully what was expected of us so made us sit through and learn (not hard to do) what our oath meant under every conceivably possible situation, I think I have a damn good understanding of it. so what was so foolish, fucktard, that you felt you needed to insult and establised member of the forum and a top 200 player on the site. Well, fucktard, I'm waiting...

*an established

That is how I would expect a fool to act. Forum posts and a few losses has almost nothing to do with my ability to accurately describe your intellect.

How about a 157+ IQ and the fact that everything I stated was factual. Do you deny this?

Okay, you argue that the man ahould be executed for being a traitor to the US and you also admit that the US commits all sorts of war crimes (while you swear). Capital punishment should never be used as there is a chance that the person is not guilty, it is immoral to kill in most religions, and it doesn't save any money or have anything good come out of it. As well, the US as you admit commits war crimes is not always in the right and so because of that the man could be a hero if he is showing the evil doings of the US and trying to make it stop. You say that the US military does bad stuff but that an american soldier should always do as told even so.

He is contributing to the breakdown of the chain of command. If that information is in civilian hands, then fine. You totally ignored the part where I said that I had no problem with the media using it, only with his leaking it. He committed treason and, as such, should have to pay the price. I don't honestly think he should fry, but he should do hard time for it. Had he been a good soldier and honestly leaked the info knowing the price he'd have to pay, I would consider him a hero, but he did so to spite the military which had busted him and should have kicked him out long ago, probably as early as boot on a general discharge with the "inability to adapt to a military lifestyle" qualification, but some assholes manage to slip through the filtering aspect of boot, especially in Army boot, which doesn't focus on discipline first.

Anyhow, my former exagerations from early in the thread were to counter the wimpy ass "he's a hero" crowd who don't see how important discipline is in the armed forces and that this punk was doing what he did, not because it was "right", bet because he wanted to screw the military.

There is no reason he would want to attack the military and in doing so risk his life unless he thought the military was doing evil acts which should be brought to everyone's attention and stopped. So you believe that anything should go if it comes from the top. Such as what was happening with the Nazis, you would think that a man who showed the world the evils that were going on in Europe was a "punk" who deserves to spend the rest of his life in jail considered a bad guy?

Twist words much? I said if I thought his reasons for doing his actions were righteous I would call him a hero. But you chose to ingore that part. He was a seriously angry young man. He wasn't thinking about consequences of his actions for him personally any more than the postal workers who go in and shoot up their post offices. Get real and grow up.

I did not ignore that. I said "There is no reason he would want to attack the military and in doing so risk his life unless he thought the military was doing evil acts which should be brought to everyone's attention and stopped."

There was every reason he would want to attack the military. He was busted down in rank numerous times and was on a career path to dishonourable discharge even before he started leaking info. He had reason to attack with false accusations and managed to find some truthful ones instead. But his reason *were* an attack. Any person who had fully read his military history/background could see he had was an angry young man with "reason" (unjustified except by his anger) to attack the military.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/7918632/Bradley-Manning-suspected-source-of-Wikileaks-documents-raged-on-his-Facebook-page.html

This story should help show that he felt he had a reason and was angry at the military. It sheds light on his actions as not being about self sacrifice in the name of justice but about his being out for revenge.

I read it and I don't know what you mean. Revenge against who exactly? It sounds like he was angry at society and what the military was doing among other things.