From the Telegraph:
…Mr Manning, who is openly homosexual, began his gloomy postings on January 12, saying: “Bradley Manning didn’t want this fight. Too much to lose, too fast.”
At the beginning of May, when he was serving at a US military base near Baghdad, he changed his status to: “Bradley Manning is now left with the sinking feeling that he doesn’t have anything left.”
Five days later he said he was “livid” after being “lectured by ex-boyfriend”, then later the same day said he was “not a piece of equipment” and was “beyond frustrated with people and society at large”.
His tagline on his personal page reads: “Take me for who I am, or face the consequences!” …
Bitter and frustrated, I guess he decided to lash out – in the manner of a spoiled, rotten little child. The fool probably still doesn’t realize that while he didn’t tell any perceptive observer anything new, he did release the names and addresses of people who might now pay with their lives for his indiscretion.
Normally, I judge these sorts of actions to be worth ten or twenty years in prison – but life at hard labor hardly seems sufficient punishment for this craven, pipsqueak of a “man”.