Saturday, December 17, 2011
The Shooting in Baghdad
As Americans reassess the military misadventure in Iraq, Real News examines the German documentary on the Pentagon versus Bradley Manning. As Manning goes to trial for releasing the video of a US gunship gleefully murdering civilians, reporters and children in Baghdad, fascist politicians and pundits in the US call for his execution. After suffering the torture of solitary confinement in Quantico, the question now is whether murdering the messenger will be the final act of the Pentagon's inhumanity in Iraq.