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Bah to Obama's Nobel Prize! Bradley Manning deserving of one.....

Don't scoff when you read this piece from TomDispatch.    That Obama wasn't even remotely deserving, let alone entitled, to a Nobel Peace Prize, is incontrovertible.    Bradley Manning?   He has done more than Obama to promote the cause of peace.    Just think of today's multiple attacks in Kabul and the mire of war in Afghanistan.  

"Obama did not take that path, of course, and now, his Nobel Prize largely forgotten, he will be campaigning for reelection as a successful war president, the man who launched the attack that killed Osama bin Laden, and whose administration has fed the U.S. military machine in a manner similar to that of his predecessor.  At the same time, it has fiercely prosecuted and, in the case of Private First Class Bradley Manning among others, persecuted a range of American whistleblowers who have dared to reveal the real story of our eternal state of war and the war state that goes with it.

Manning, accused of passing secret U.S. military and State Department documents on to the website WikiLeaks, is now in military prison awaiting a trial whose verdict is essentially a foregone conclusion.  Everyone knows that after military “justice” is done under pressure from an administration led by a president who has already publicly stated -- at a $5,000 a head fundraiser in San Francisco, no less -- that Manning “broke the law,” they will throw away the keys and leave him to rot in prison till hell freezes over.

Manning is already in danger of being forgotten (though not at this website) for an alleged act that was aimed at stopping war, an act that -- as a matter of amends -- should bring him a nomination for the Nobel Prize, if not the prize itself."

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