---so what you are saying, is we would be BETTER OFF --- NOT KNOWING THESE THINGS?:
reposting hat tip: JDPriestlyBelow is a list of 10 revelations disclosed by Manning’s leaked documents that offer insight into the breadth and scope of what he revealed, help explain his motivation for leaking, and provide context for the ongoing trial. The list, in no particular order, is far from comprehensive but encompasses some of the most significant information brought to light by the leaked documents.
There were 109,032 “violent deaths” recorded in Iraq between 2004 and 2009, including 66,081 civilians. Leaked records from the Afghan War separately revealed coalition troops’ alleged role in killing at least 195 civilians in unreported incidents, one reportedly involving U.S. service members machine-gunning a bus, wounding or killing 15 passengers.
The U.S. Embassy in Paris advised Washington to start a military-style trade war against any European Union country that opposed genetically modified crops, with U.S. diplomats effectively working directly for GM companies such as Monsanto.
British and American officials colluded in a plan to mislead the British Parliament over a proposed ban on cluster bombs.
In Baghdad in 2007, a U.S. Army helicopter gunned down a group of civilians, including two Reuters news staff.
U.S. special operations forces were conducting offensive operations inside Pakistan despite sustained public denials and statements to the contrary by U.S. officials.
A leaked diplomatic cable provided evidence that during an incident in 2006, U.S. troops in Iraq executed at least 10 Iraqi civilians, including a woman in her 70s and a 5-month-old, then called in an airstrike to destroy the evidence. The disclosure of this cable was later a significant factor in the Iraqi government’s refusal to grant U.S. troops immunity from prosecution beyond 2011, which led to U.S. troops withdrawing from the country.
A NATO coalition in Afghanistan was using an undisclosed “black” unit of special operations forces to hunt down targets for death or detention without trial. The unit was revealed to have had a kill-or-capture list featuring details of more than 2,000 senior figures from the Taliban and al-Qaida, but it had in some cases mistakenly killed men, women, children, and Afghan police officers.
The U.S. threatened the Italian government in an attempt to influence a court case involving the indictment of CIA agents over the kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric. Separately, U.S. officials were revealed to have pressured Spanish prosecutors to dissuade them from investigating U.S. torture allegations, secret “extraordinary rendition” flights, and the killing of a Spanish journalist by U.S. troops in Iraq.
In apparent violation of a 1946 U.N. convention, Washington initiated a spying campaign in 2009 that targeted the leadership of the U.N. by seeking to gather top officials’ private encryption keys, credit card details, and biometric data.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/06/04/bradley_manning_trial_10_revelations_from_wikileaks_documents_on_iraq_afghanistan.html
adding these as well (for those who don't think the above is enough):
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=3518698
http://www.thenation.com/blog/175879/too-often-forgotten-amazingly-long-list-what-we-know-thanks-private-manning#axzz2coqF27hD
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Haven't heard that one in a while
when the helicopter declared the area clear for firing and put a missile into the building right next to the him (within probably 20 feet). There seemed to be no sign of the guy after the explosion.
Even if everything else in the video could somehow be justified - I fail to see how obliterating a guy who just happens to be walking next to a target is not murder, plain and simple.
I never hear of anyone mentioning this guy's likely death as a crime.
Did you ever watch the full version of Collateral Murder?
Scared and living with their eyes wide-shut. So you have to forgive them, for they know not what they do. Seriously.
- Like Winston Smith, the struggle for them is finished. They love Big Brother.
But it'll get better.....
How did this happen? Who's to blame? Well certainly there are those more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable, but again truth be told, if you're looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror.
I know why you did it. I know you were afraid. Who wouldn't be? War, terror, disease. There were a myriad of problems which conspired to corrupt your reason and rob you of your common sense. ” ~V for Vendetta
K&R
I just read on another thread that we ('muricans) have to give up a little privacy.
So I guess the government should have to give up a little privacy too. 
member of my family, actually making me feel worse. So what is better? Seems to have helped ruin DU as a civil discussion board, especially on the topics of Manning, Snowden, NSA. Can't really do anything about what I know except to blow off steam especially since if the government says things are being corrected....how will we know? Turned a lot of my fellow countrymen and women into exposing their hate for Obama without control...showed a lot folks I thought highly of as closet bigots...so what exactly is the benefit? I am not going to vote Republican and I am not NOT going to vote for the Dem candidates. All of it has damaged the reputation and cooperation the US with its allies and enemies more than US warmongering. I don't feel safer. I don't feel more afraid of my government. Hasn't stopped and won't stop corporate spying on consumers. Yeah...what have we really gained? The big loser in all of this is a President who is trying to deal with many, many complex foreign and domestic issues that actually really affect the lives of people. And actually has made the President seem an enemy of the LBGT community when, in fact, he has been their best ally in office. It is all so sad. And the constant focus on the subject is becoming almost irrational. Of course, this is my opinion. But you seemed to ask for it in your OP. 
And now for this one 'by personal request." This IS so important.
And there is nothing to be done about folks like NM Birder over in the other thread..
Waving for the USA as I wish it COULD be.....
Why are so many people not willing to trust the leaders *they* worked for and elected?
