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A New Perspective on Private Manning (He's a gay leftwinger)
Powerline Blog ^ | July 31, 2010 | John Hinderaker

Posted on 07/31/2010 5:12:09 PM PDT by Yardstick

Pfc. Bradley Manning is the only suspect in the Wikileaks scandal that may have endangered both American soldiers in Afghanistan and their Afghan allies. He is now in custody awaiting court martial. Manning worked in intelligence and was stationed for a time outside Baghdad. I have no insight into whether Private Manning is guilty or not; presumably the facts will come out in his court martial. I am struck, however, by the lack of curiosity the American press has shown about Private Manning.

Manning's mother is British. She married an American and lived in the U.S. for some years; Bradley was born here. His parents divorced and she brought him back to Wales in 2001. The Telegraph took the trouble of interviewing some of Manning's friends and family members in the U.K., and checking out his Facebook page. The results are interesting.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bradley; bradleymanning; dadt; treason; wikileaks
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Interesting, isn't it, how the media have been kind quiet about the guy who leaked the 90,000 classified documents?

Turns out there might be a reason why.

1 posted on 07/31/2010 5:12:10 PM PDT by Yardstick
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To: Yardstick

Hmmmmm, so the guy turns out to be a queer. Interesting.


2 posted on 07/31/2010 5:15:36 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: Yardstick

He’s also a treasonous, lowlife piece of scum.


3 posted on 07/31/2010 5:17:25 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Ich bin ein illegal alien! - Barry Obama standing up with Central and South America against Arizona.)
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To: Parley Baer

Now we know why the Left likes queers. The “put upon” are always justifying their “outing” of something they are unhappy about.

G*d called them “abominations” for a reason, it seems.

Just saying.


4 posted on 07/31/2010 5:17:47 PM PDT by GladesGuru (In a society predicated upon freedom, it is essential to examine principles,)
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....if Manning had been a tea partier, if he had been photographed holding an anti-government sign at a tea party rally, and if friends described him as being "fired up" about conservative politics. Do you think those facts would be prominently featured in the media narrative about the leaks?

Zing!

5 posted on 07/31/2010 5:20:39 PM PDT by SC Swamp Fox (Aim small, miss small.)
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To: Yardstick

I wish I had a statistic on how many gay men had decent fathers in the home. Just from personal experience - the gay men I know lived with their moms after a bitter divorce. Usually there was another guy on the scene, too.


6 posted on 07/31/2010 5:23:31 PM PDT by agrarianlady
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To: Yardstick

I don’t know - they found out his on-screen name was “Bradass 87”. That sort of gives you the complete picture of the guy right there - he might as well have been calling himself “Poopstain 87” (although I heard that was taken by a guy over at 4chan).


7 posted on 07/31/2010 5:24:38 PM PDT by worst-case scenario (Striving to reach the light)
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To: Yardstick

The first time I saw this guy’s picture he reminded me of Lindsey Graham.


8 posted on 07/31/2010 5:26:31 PM PDT by Will88
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To: GladesGuru

That abomination is going to a military prison for a very long time unless zer0 pardons his fruit cake @ss


9 posted on 07/31/2010 5:27:59 PM PDT by reefdiver ("Let His day's be few And another takes His office")
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My guess is that TREASON will never be brought up.

He should be tried for treason, found guilty, then hanged.

Period...end of story.

10 posted on 07/31/2010 5:31:10 PM PDT by alice_in_bubbaland (Professional Politicians are a Threat to the Republic! Remove them on 11-2-10!)
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To: Yardstick

Why are the papers from President Bush’s term. It seems strange that the papers are from the Bush years but yet Obama’s hands are clean. Not that Presidents really have any control over things like this they are responsible overall for it.


11 posted on 07/31/2010 5:32:17 PM PDT by napscoordinator
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To: Yardstick

How the HELL did he get accepted into our Army?


12 posted on 07/31/2010 5:34:29 PM PDT by eddie willers
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To: agrarianlady

I feel the same way about Lesbians. You could tell in the Cheney Household that Lynn probably wasn’t the most mothering. She was probably pretty mean and nasty....what else explains how she ended up with a lesbian.


13 posted on 07/31/2010 5:34:33 PM PDT by napscoordinator
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To: Yardstick
the little fag broke Rule .308
14 posted on 07/31/2010 5:39:10 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: Yardstick

I still want to know who the hell authorized giving this jerk his top secret security clearance.

Or who allowed him to keep it after he was apparently demoted from Spec5 to PFC for some as yet unexplained offense.

Whoever was responsible for putting him into a position where he could betray his country like this also deserves to be punished. That goes both for the FBI agents who presumably vetted him, and his military superiors.

Someone has got to take some responsibility for these obvious security lapses.


15 posted on 07/31/2010 5:43:40 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius.)
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How the HELL did he get accepted into our Army?

In 2007 they were letting everyone in.

16 posted on 07/31/2010 5:46:45 PM PDT by Drew68
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To: Yardstick

Cambridge Five spy ring that betrayed Western secrets to the Soviets before and during the Cold War. Burgess and Anthony Blunt contributed to the Soviet cause with the transmission of secret Foreign Office and MI5 documents that described NATO military strategy...... Like Blunt, Burgess was homosexual.


17 posted on 07/31/2010 5:47:37 PM PDT by Calusa (The pump won't prime 'cause the vandals took the handle. Quoth Bob Dylan.)
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To: Yardstick

All those people that argued for gays in the military... here’s your reward.


18 posted on 07/31/2010 5:53:08 PM PDT by OrangeHoof (Washington, we Texans want a divorce!)
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To: agrarianlady

Yes, they are emotionally (and a lot of times physically) damaged as children.


19 posted on 07/31/2010 5:54:45 PM PDT by savagesusie
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To: Yardstick

But Joe The Plumber?

Naw...they were over that guy


20 posted on 07/31/2010 5:56:44 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat
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