Bradley Manning is a traitor.

[originalpckelly]

11. The real question is why we even have weapons like that in the first place.

And you'll probably get around to the secrecy and spy games of the cold war as your answer.

This is the same country that for decades classified a film about the damage done by nukes, it's not like people would have reacted differently to the brinksmanship of the cold war if they had seen clearly the kind of horrors those weapons bring to people, right?

It's easy to let your government risk your life when you don't have to see half melted babies, it's another thing entirely to have to imagine what it would be like if the people you see in that footage are your own or yourself.