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

The writing of My Stretch of Texas Ground was driven by anguish; my anguish with what my government did following 9/11, which was to go on a killing spree that was a venal as any that have been committed on this planet. 

Of all the people we killed in Afghanistan and Iraq, how many had anything to do with attacking the United States?   The answer: zero, I tell you, zero. 

The attack on Afghanistan was horrendous- even if the claim of Osama bin laden's involvement in 9/11 were true. It is NOT true, and the proof is: Fatty bin laden. They wouldn't have needed him if it were true.  The other proof is that we know, from the Architects and Engineers, that the Twin Towers and Building 7 were imploded, which means that bin laden, neither the fat nor the skinny, could have done it. 

But, even if the accusation against bin laden were true, it was still terribly wrong to start that war.  

The world should have learned from what happened in 1914 that you don't start a war over one guy, and I don't care who he is. Nobody is so important as to warrant starting a war over him. Get over yourself, for Christ's sake.  

In the case of Osama bin laden, the Taliban offered to turn him over to a third country for trial. Why the hell wasn't that good enough? George W. Bush responded by saying, "we don't negotiate with terrorists." 

Oh, but we do, Bush!  We're doing it right now! We are flying the terrorists to Qatar  and putting them up in style. On Wikipedia, it says: "the service they get is like a five-star hotel."

In case of Iraq, every claim we made for the war was a lie, even the one about Hussein gassing his own people. He didn't. The gassing of the Kurds occurred during the Iraq/Iran war, a war which we pushed Saddam Hussein to start, in which both sides used chemical weapons. It was Iranian cyanide that killed the Kurds at Halabja, and it was revealed in the New York Times before the invasion began. 

 "Pelletiere went public with his information on no less a platform than The New York Times in an article on January 31 last year titled ‘A War Crime or an Act of War?’ The article which challenged the case for war quoted U.S. President George W. Bush as saying: “The dictator who is assembling the world’s most dangerous weapons has already used them on whole villages, leaving thousands of his own citizens dead, blind or disfigured.”

Pelletiere says the United States Defense Intelligence Agency investigated and produced a classified report following the Halabja gassing, which it circulated within the intelligence community on a need-to-know basis. “That study asserted that it was Iranian gas that killed the Kurds, not Iraqi gas,” he wrote in The New York Times.

The agency did find that each side used gas against the other in the battle around Halabja, he said. "The condition of the dead Kurds’ bodies, however, indicated they had been killed with a blood agent – that is, a cyanide-based gas – which Iran was known to use. “The Iraqis, who are thought to have used mustard gas in the battle, are not known to have possessed blood agents at the time.”

Pelletiere write that these facts have “long been in the public domain but, extraordinarily, as often as the Halabja affair is cited, they are rarely mentioned.”

Pelletiere wrote that Saddam Hussein has much to answer for in the area of human rights abuses. “But accusing him of gassing his own people at Halabja as an act of genocide is not correct, because as far as the information we have goes, all of the cases where gas was used involved battles. These were tragedies of war. There may be justifications for getting rid of Saddam, but Halabja is not one of them.”