so the iraq war leaks show, among other things, that the military covered up the extent of its killing of civilians throughout the war. (right, cb?!) at the same time, it's not that -the fact that it reveals their own profound evil - that causes the pentagon to condemn the whole thing, but...risks to civilians! (i.e. their informants, or the members of the shia death squads deployed by our man maliki). oy, the irony! really, nothing is more comical than the machinery of death.

It added that "more than 15,000 civilians died in previously unknown incidents," going on to say that "US and UK officials have insisted that no official record of civilian casualties exists but the logs record 66,081 non-combatant deaths out of a total of 109,000 fatalities."

And the Guardian said the "numerous" reports of detainee abuse, often supported by medical evidence, "describe prisoners shackled, blindfolded and hung by wrists or ankles and subjected to whipping, punching, kicking or electric shocks."

It added: "Six reports end with a detainee's apparent death."

Al-Jazeera concluded that major findings included a US military cover-up of Iraqi state-sanctioned torture and "hundreds" of civilians deaths at manned American checkpoints after the US-led invasion of 2003.

etc etc. thank you for your service! and in all seriousness thank you, bradley manning, for yours, to humanity and to the truth.