Oswald in the doorway: the blog of the Oswald Innocence Campaign, by Ralph Cinque

The New Zealand killings of Muslims are on everyone's mind, and it is staggering to think that anyone would be capable of such evil.

I have been reading the heartfelt reactions and outpourings of sympathy from around the world. But, I can't help it that I smolder at the sympathies offered by the U.S. government because it has killed so many innocent Muslims- thousands.  

And I shall repeat what I have said before, that when you cross an ocean to invade and attack another country, and the soldiers of that country resist you, that doesn't make them terrorists. 

So, I lament ALL the killings we have done: the innocent civilians as well as the military personnel. Why not? They were human beings too. What do you expect them to do if you attack their country? Of course, they are going to fight back. We are the ones who crossed an ocean to attack them; not vice versa. That's what matters: WE CROSSED AN OCEAN TO ATTACK THEM. 

Here is a mere sampling of the carnage we have wrought, and just in Afghanistan: 


Feb 27, 2007:

For the second day in a row, U.S. soldiers on Tuesday killed Iraqi civilians when they fired on a vehicle that they thought was a threat, the U.S. military said.

May 8, 2007:

A U.S. Army commander Tuesday said the U.S.Military has apologized to Afghans whose relatives were killed in March when U.S. troops fired on them after a suicide attack.

"This was a terrible, terrible mistake," said Army Col. John Nicholson, commander of the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division. "And my nation grieves with you for your loss and suffering. We humbly and respectfully ask for your forgiveness."

Sept. 17, 2008:

U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates apologized Wednesday for recent U.S. airstrikes that have killed civilians in Afghanistan. "I offer all Afghans my sincerest condolances, etc." 

Feb 24, 2010:  

America’s top military commander in Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, took to the Afghan airwaves Tuesday to apologize for the deaths of 27 civilians in an airstrike led by U.S. forces last week, according to The Christian Science Monitor."

April 8, 2010:

In the dusty Afghan village where U.S. troops killed two pregnant women and three other innocent civiliansin February, a remarkable scene played out today between an aggrieved father and the most senior special operations officer in the United States military.

Vice Admiral William McRaven -- the commander of Joint Special Operations Command -- showed up with two sheep, and in the cultural understanding of the region, surrendered himself. He didn't literally surrender. But he didn't have to. In the code followed by the southeastern Afghan family so devastated by the February incident, offering two sheep is the equivalent of begging for forgiveness.

May 30, 2011:

U.S. Marine Major General John Toolan, the commander of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force in the southwestern region of Afghanistan, said NATO-led forces had targeted a compound in Helmand Province, believing militants were using it as a base.
The statement said the compound had civilians inside and nine of them died in the air strike. It added that NATO will "make amends" with the families of the victims "in accordance with Afghan culture."

June 8, 2012:

The top commander of U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan offered a somber apology Friday in an eastern province where officials say 18 civilians -- half of them children -- were killed in a coalition airstrike this week. U.S. Marine Gen. John Allen spent several hours with local Afghans to express his regrets about Wednesday's predawn raid to capture a Taliban operative in the Baraki Barak district of Logar province.

November 29, 2013:

The American commander of coalition forces in Afghanistan telephoned Afghan President Hamid Karzai to apologize for an airstrike that killed at least one Afghan civilian and badly wounded two others, a coalition official said Friday. Marine Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr. "expressed deep regret" for the civilian casualties, the official said, and promised a joint investigation with Afghan officials into circumstances surrounding the attack Thursday. Dunford made the call late Thursday after Karzai angrily denounced the United States, saying it has repeatedly shown disregard for the lives of Afghan civilians.