The understanding of mistakes and actions delegated by our U.S government really makes a person think about our country. The United States’ justice and injustice affects our country. Michael Moore explains how this justifies the affects on our country in the article he wrote called, “What Bradley Manning’s Sentence Will Tell Us About Our Military Justice System.” For revealing the outrageous acts being conducted by military personnel in foreign countries Bradley Manning was tried on multiple charges that had a punishment of a 136-year max possible sentence. The breakdown of the Manning case and analysis of other crimes done by other soldiers will be compared on how they were both handled by the U.S Military Judicial System will be presented in this article.
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Not found guilty on a charge of aiding the enemy it really makes a person question the things that the U.S military is doing that not everyone gets to see. How this situation was handled next to others it seems somewhat extreme. According to Moore, Spec. Armin Cruz’s abuse of Iraqis at Abu Gharaib and covering up the abuse got eight months in incarceration which is a very short time for the intensity of that act, or Marine Sgt. Frank D. Wuterich’s neglect dereliction in the massacre of 24 unarmed men, women and children in an Iraqi town received no jail time; the amount of punishment doesn’t go with how bad these acts actually were which makes a citizen question the fairness this military’s unbiased justice (Moore pg.
Not found guilty on a charge of aiding the enemy it really makes a person question the things that the U.S military is doing that not everyone gets to see. How this situation was handled next to others it seems somewhat extreme. According to Moore, Spec. Armin Cruz’s abuse of Iraqis at Abu Gharaib and covering up the abuse got eight months in incarceration which is a very short time for the intensity of that act, or Marine Sgt. Frank D. Wuterich’s neglect dereliction in the massacre of 24 unarmed men, women and children in an Iraqi town received no jail time; the amount of punishment doesn’t go with how bad these acts actually were which makes a citizen question the fairness this military’s unbiased justice (Moore pg.