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Did Britain Care? {We Know Here There's Little Concern!}
And that lack of will come back to haunt us in the coming decades, it is already!
Iraqi Civilian Deaths: Did Britain Care?
July 16, 2010 Of all the controversies that surround the Iraq war and its aftermath, the most troubling is the number of civilians who died.
The figure varies depending on which source you choose to believe... but they're all staggering.
50,000? 200,000? 400,000? One survey even puts the figure at over a million.
The attitude of the US commander who led the invasion of Iraq in 2003 goes some way to explaining why no one really has any idea of the number.
"We don't do bodycounts" General Tommy Franks once said.
That's not to say he is to blame. That was, unofficially at least, US policy.
And to be fair, he said that when no one really had any idea how difficult the insurgency would become.
Few could have imagined that, by 2007, two thousand Iraqis were being killed every month. Staggering. Continued
While many here will continue to use the "We will never forget!", neither will the Iraqi's and the now long occupied Afghans as well as the regional neighbors and the World!
Especially the children who've grown up in the carnage and death around them!
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They are the descendants of the victims of the greatest genocide in human history and they have not forgotten. Americans Indians haven't. Canadian Indians haven't. Surely indigenous people in South America haven't. Certainly indigenous people in Mexico haven't.
Certainly Haitians haven't, and their 500-year-old history as victims of imperialism, colonialism, et cetera, continues.
Hawaiians haven't forgotten. Puerto Ricans haven't forgotten. Cubans aren't going to forget. Filipinos aren't going to forget. The Vietnamese aren't going to forget. The Japanese of Okinawa and descendants and possibly survivors of Nagasaki and Heroshima aren't going to forget. People in Indonesia aren't going to forget. Peoples in ... plenty of African countries aren't going to forget.
Of course Iraqis, Afghans, Pakistanis and others also aren't going to forget.
And I'm not going to forget what it is that causes them to not be able to forget the extreme crimes committed against them all.
Why should we forget?
Forgiveness can come, but forgiveness and forgetfulness aren't synonyms. A lot of people say that the two words are synonymous, or treat them that way, but they're not. In simple terms, forgiving is related to morals, while forgetting, so memory, really has nothing to do with morals.
Some things that we forgive should not be forgotten as a matter of self-preservation; learning from experiences in order to avoid repeated bad experiences.
And some things should not be forgotten until the wrongs are corrected, especially when the wrongs continue to be perpetrated.
So we, humans should not forget, and we should never expect victims to forget. We should never ask them to forget; except when the wrongs not being forgotten are minor enough that dwelling on them is worse than leaving the wrongs suffered to the past and getting on with life. But the wrongs committed against all of the aforementioned peoples are far from minor; they're extreme and justice needs to be provided.
And while many white Americans and financially well-of Americans don't perceive themselves as victims of serious crimes committed by the US govt, these people are wrong in general terms. All Americans are presently victims of the extremely rogue, corrupt, charlatan, robber baron, ... US govt elites and their ruling masters.
There's a lot more to be remembered than there is to be forgotten. In comparison, there's very little to be forgotten. And only a cold-blooded, ruthless, rogue, fascist, ... govt and its ruling elites, masters could make life for everyone else this way.
Hopefully, voters will not forget to vote the rogues out of Congress this coming November.
More than one survey has reported over a million. There are two that were reported about over the past several or few years and I forget the names right now, but many people learned about the two reports.
Both reported "over a million" for Iraqis who died because of this war two or three years ago; not recently. And the total has only kept rising.