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3 Mar, 2013

Bradley Manning’s Full Statement: My Goal was to Spark Domestic Debate on Iraq war

I believe that if the general public, especially the American public, had access to the information contained within the CIDNE-I and CIDNE-A tables this could spark a domestic debate on the role of the military and our foreign policy in general as [missed word] as it related to Iraq and Afghanistan.

I also believed the detailed analysis of the data over a long period of time by different sectors of society might cause society to reevaluate the need or even the desire to even to engage in counterterrorism and counterinsurgency operations that ignore the complex dynamics of the people living in the effected environment everyday.

Read the full statement: My Goal? To “Share with World… True Cost of the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan” | Common Dreams.