On what grounds? For what reason? By what logic is he/she/it deserving of a pardon? Was there some kind of miscarriage of justice or law? Seems pretty cut and dried, the freak is a traitor, end of story.
...a decision to pardon the soldier would likely not play well with some members of the military, many of whom view Manning with disdain.
Disdain? The Air Force and Marine personnel I know (active and retired) would shoot that {expletive} on site if given the chance.
“On what grounds? For what reason? By what logic is he/she/it deserving of a pardon? Was there some kind of miscarriage of justice or law?”
What, you think that a reason is needed? There needs to be no rhyme or reason. He can just do it.
On what grounds? For what reason? By what logic is he/she/it deserving of a pardon? Was there some kind of miscarriage of justice or law? Seems pretty cut and dried, the freak is a traitor, end of story.
He would get the pardon because it will be said he has “paid” for his mistakes and that the damage done was just to our reputation.
I don’t think he should pardon any of those guys.
And Chelsea knows that if it doesn’t happen next week—he is looking at eight years of hard time.
I hope he gets his/her hopes up, only to be dashed onto the rocks.