What is the penalty for treason these days. The private who swore to protect and defend...and uphold the constitution of the United States, did not. He should be charged with treason and tried by a military court.

Doc Clayton

I think that, rather than being persecuted [sic], Bradley Manning should receive something like the Freedom Medal, or perhaps the Medal of Honor. These and earlier documents confirm the criminal activities and treason of people like George W. Bush, Richard Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz and others. Their activities were not treason in a political sense, rather in a moral sense. They caused the death of at least hundreds of thousands of people, mostly civilians. They made other millions refugees in their own country, still other millions refugees in other countries.

They in effect stole trillions of dollars from Americans, and set the stage for bankrupting America and destroying the economy of the world. By engaging in the useless "regime change", instead of working on the problems of America. And any organization that owes trillions of dollars with no way to pay it back except to take it by force from their victims, also known as "citizen".

People should understand the background of the situation the politicians created. With the hope they will feel constrained to not do it again.

The evidence should be used to charge Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and others as serial killers and guilty to crimes against humanity. But other than as with Saddam Hussein, they should be "sentenced" to become non-persons in history. To the knowledge the world would have been better off without them. For a politician, to become irrelevant is a fate worse than death. The death penalty has never solved anything.

How would you reconcile your statement with the Nuremberg precedent?