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Manning is dead.
Wombaticus Rex » Tue Jan 17, 2017 4:47 pm wrote:Looks like the answer to the OP's question is a definitive "No."
Curious that Barack Obama wouldn't pardon Manning, because a pardon would mean Manning walks, now. Instead, Obama makes a PR bid that places Manning's fate into the hands of ... the Trump administration. Obama is very consistent, this is the same playbook he was using for the DAPL standoff.
Wombaticus Rex » Tue Jan 17, 2017 4:47 pm wrote:Looks like the answer to the OP's question is a definitive "No."
Curious that Barack Obama wouldn't pardon Manning, because a pardon would mean Manning walks, now. Instead, Obama makes a PR bid that places Manning's fate into the hands of ... the Trump administration. Obama is very consistent, this is the same playbook he was using for the DAPL standoff.
Hostilities formally ended "at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month. [...] On average, 2,250 troops on all sides were dying on the Western Front every day. ‘For God’s sake, Monsieur le Marechal,’ Erzberger pleaded, ‘do not wait for those seventy-two hours. Stop the hostilities this very day.’ The appeal fell on deaf ears. Before the meeting, Foch had described to his staff his intention ‘to pursue the Feldgrauen [field grays, or German soldiers] with a sword at their backs’ to the last minute until an armistice went into effect.
To Pershing the very idea of an armistice was repugnant. ‘Their request is an acknowledgment of weakness and clearly means that the Allies are winning the war,’ he maintained.
http://www.historynet.com/world-war-i-w ... ce-day.htm
MacCruiskeen » Tue Jan 17, 2017 11:14 pm wrote:I wonder whether Assange will now feel obliged to make good on his offer. Since Manning has not actually been pardoned, I hope he will not feel obliged deliver himself up in her place to the hell of the US "legal" and prison systems.
liminalOyster » Tue Jan 17, 2017 5:40 pm wrote:MacCruiskeen » Tue Jan 17, 2017 11:14 pm wrote:I wonder whether Assange will now feel obliged to make good on his offer. Since Manning has not actually been pardoned, I hope he will not feel obliged deliver himself up in her place to the hell of the US "legal" and prison systems.
Assange's original offer used the phrase "clemency."
https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/776437869376262144
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