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

Oh My God! Among U.S. active duty service members, reservists, and veterans, an average of 20 take their own lives every day.  That's 20 today, 20 yesterday, 20 tomorrow, etc. That's almost 1 every hour, day and night. 

How can it be happening? It is because the U.S. Military is a culture of death. I keep telling you that war makes monsters out of men, and the U.S. Military is ALWAYS at war. Look at what they make their people do. Someone was ordered to kill 10 men in Iraq, and only 2 were even identified or accused of any wrongdoing. The other 8 weren't named, and they weren't linked to any wrongdoing. They were just part of the welcoming party for Sulemani, to escort him to the Iraqi Prime Minister, and we just killed them all. 

Iranian Foreign Minister Zarif said today, February 14, 2020, that Suleimani was definitely not there to spur Iraqi militias to attack Americans. He said it was just the opposite, that Suleimani was there to defuse tensions and look for peaceful solutions. And it makes perfect sense because why else would the Iraqi Prime Minister have invited him? 

We have all seen the tapes that got released because of Chelsea Manning and Julian Assange, both now in prison, in which American soldiers are killing Iraqis remotely- as though they were playing a video game, and as dispassionately as playing a video game. When you live in such a culture of death, the risk that you are going to take lethal action against yourself goes way up. 

There was a threat from Suleimani, but not the one they cited. And by they, I mean Trump, Pompeo, and Esper. They claimed that he was planning imminent attacks on U.S. forces, which is bull shit. What he was doing was something far more dangerous to us: he was making inroads with the Iraqi government, to where friendship between Iran and Iraq was a real possibility. That's what the real danger to us was. 

We didn't kill Suleimani to send a message to Iran. We killed Suleimani and 9 Iraqis to send a message to Iraq- "Cleanse your mind of any thought of getting chummy with Iran." Sending that message to Iraq was the purpose of killing Suleimani. The rest was spin. But, who kills 10 people, 8 of them unaccused of any crime, just to send a political message? A culture of death does.