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

Just to be clear, there are two aspects to the criminality of the 9/11 wars: There is the launching of the wars, the attacks on Afghanistan and Iraq, both of which were totally unprovoked and, in fact, based on lies. That was criminal, and on a massive scale. 

But, in addition, the prosecution of the wars, the way they were fought, involved egregious war crimes. The Geneva Conventions outlaws the targeting of civilians in war. When you bomb a wedding party, which you know includes women and children, as well as some non-combatant men, you are knowingly and wantonly killing non-combatants. That's a crime. And we have done it 9X, so far. Nine times we have bombed wedding parties in Afghanistan. 

And even if they thought that Taliban fighters were taking cover among civilians, it doesn't give them the right to kill those people. And, there isn't even a basis to think that because a wedding is a wedding. No one has to attend a wedding. There is no reason to think they were taking cover, and there is every reason to think they were just attending a wedding.  

Why would the U.S Military. resort to such a dastardly act of bombing a wedding party? I would say: desperation. 

And why would the U.S.Military resort to dropping practically a MOAB on a restaurant in Baghdad knowing that everyone was going to die? And not just people in the restaurant but in nearby houses. And it was a commoner restaurant where you could buy a chicken dinner for about a dollar. Why think that you can kill all the people who eat in such a place just because you think you can get Saddam Hussein? The irony is that they didn't even get him. 

So, we are talking about war crimes within wars that were crimes from the start: unjustified aggressions against other countries. That is what the United States of America is guilty of. And yet, the leaders of this country, the media of this country, and the people of this country, are in complete denial about it. 

And that is what My Stretch of Texas Ground is trying to remedy. It makes people look at it. It doesn't defend terrorism. It says that war IS terrorism- a more advanced, sophisticated, and lethal form of it. And both have got to stop. People need to reject and renounce war the same way they reject and denounce terrorism. Both are monstrous acts of barbarity. Both have got to stop. The whole idea of crossing the ocean to start a war- with anybody- needs to be branded as pure villainy and evil- no matter what the reason given to justify it.