&gt; Ah yes, Manning committed the worst "crime"... not the soldiers mowing down innocent women and kids in their villages with machines guns from helicopters...

As an infantry officer in the US Army, I feel like you're being really unfair to a large majority of troops... Not all of us get to ride around in helicopters, some of us have to run around on the *ground* while *carrying* our machine guns to get those little fuckers.