Posted on 08/21/2010 8:08:54 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Michael Moore calls soldier accused of leaks 'patriotic' By Bridget Johnson - 08/21/10 10:33 AM ET
Michael Moore called Pfc. Bradley Manning, suspected in the leak of tens of thousands of classified Afghanistan war documents to the WikiLeaks website, "courageous" and said he'll donate $5,000 toward his defense.
The controversial filmmaker told the Associated Press that Manning did the right thing in exposing "war crimes." Manning, 22 and a former intelligence analyst with the Army in Iraq, faces up to 52 years in prison on charges that he leaked a video of a 2007 Apache helicopter attack to WikiLeaks, which posted the video in April.
"He did a courageous thing and he did a patriotic thing," Moore said.
White House and Pentagon officials have slammed the document leaks as particularly endangering Afghan informants and allies named in the documents. The Taliban quickly said it would review the documents and take action against Afghans named working with the U.S. and coalition forces.
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen said last month that the leakers of the documents "might already have on their hands the blood of some young soldier or that of an Afghan family."
Moore has posted links on his site to the Bradley Manning Defense Fund, the Bradley Manning Support Network and a Save Bradley group on Facebook (which has 8,675 fans) and Twitter.
Moore also put a link to WikiLeaks on his site, urging readers to "LEAK EVERYTHING YOU GOT!"
Isn’t he due for a massive grand mal coronary? P O S .
........ spoken like a true commie party comrad .
Yes he would. Michael Moore feeds off the stupidity of our citizens. The real world is a very self-absorbed bath of crap.
How dare you insult poor Jabba by comparing him to Michael Moore! Have you no decency???
Not a shred.
Yes she is...for now. But wait until the ravages of testosterone's effects over time and just plain growing old takes it toll on his body. Then she won't be so cute anymore.
Bradley Manning, who wanted to transition into becoming a woman after he got out of the military (http://gawker.com/5568351/is-wikileaker-bradley-manning-pre+transition-transgendered) will now spend the next 50 years of his life growing old as a man in prison.
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