WHEN 3 THOUSAND DIE IN U.S., IT'S A HORRIFIC TRAGEDY. WHEN IT HAPPENS IN IRAQ, IT'S JUST ANOTHER DAY In..?

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When 3 Thousand Die in U.S., It's a Horrific Tragedy. When It Happens in Iraq, it's Just Another Day in Paradise.

How strange double standards can be.

When nearly 3,000 people died in New York, Washington D.C., and a field in Pennsylvania on September 11th, 2001, it was an unspeakable tragedy and one worth launching world wars over and committing atrocity after atrocity.

But when it happens in just one city in just one month in Iraq, it's hardly worth mentioning.

Why is that? And why do we allow it to happen? What makes American lives priceless but Iraqi deaths.. or Lebanese or Palestinians... so acceptable? And no, this question is not rhetorical.

From today's New York Times:

-More Iraqi civilians were killed in July than in apparently any other month of the war, according to Iraqi Health Ministry and morgue statistics, despite a security plan begun by the new government in June.

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-An average of more than 110 Iraqis were killed per day in July, according to figures from the Health Ministry and the Baghdad morgue. At least 3,438 civilians died violently that month, a 9 percent increase over the tally in June and nearly twice as many as in January.

-The Baghdad security plan started by Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki on June 14 was much praised by top Iraqi and American officials at the time. It relied on setting up more Iraqi-run checkpoints to stymie insurgent movement.

-Those officials have since acknowledged that the plan has fallen far short of its aims, forcing the American military to add soldiers to the capital and back away from proposals for a troop drawdown by the year’s end.

-The Baghdad morgue reported receiving 1,855 bodies in July, more than half of the total deaths recorded in the country. The morgue tally for July was an 18 percent increase over June.

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Iraqi Death Toll Rose Above 3,400 in July :

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/15/world/middleeast/15cnd-iraq.html?ex=1156305600&en=4e643d5dd889ad95&ei=5053&partner=NYTHEADLINES_INTL

Answer 1

Ya, its not so much that american lives are more priceless than middle eastern peoples,(in SOME American's eyes) its just that you're watching the news in America. Of course they are going to be biased. I bet you if you could watch the news in Iraq, it would be a very different picture.

Its very unfortunate that here we broadcast supposedly "unbiased" newscasts, but thats just the way it is here.

Answer 2

Listen, I don't like the fact that we're at war any more than you do...but let's look at how we got there...we allowed 9-1-1 to cloud our judgement so we elected Bush into ofice a second time...so things are bad on the international level and the domestic level because we have a Republican in charge of things...everyone bitches about how bad it is here and some about how bad it is over there but no one has been able to come up with a solution which will make everyone happy and I'm not sure there is one...we'll just have to wait and see...as far as the Iraqi people are concerned I think they are better off with us killing them than with Saddam killing them because Saddam was a ruthless ******* who killed on a moments whim...at least our military is there to do a job, regardless of how well or how badly they do it...I know they do try to be reasonable...for that matter I think Bush tries to be reasonable but he's a bit short sighted...first and foremost though, Islamic radicals attacked us and there were going to be consequences to that...whether it was a Republican or a Democrat who was in office...yes, I think Clinton would have had a lot better solution to it...but we can't have Clinton right now so we just have to support what we have and question him when we get the chance to.

Answer 3

seems a little onesided here. You forgot to mention all the lives that were saved by our US Soldiers in Iraq. Trust me there have been a hell of a lot more saved than what have been killed. You forgot to mention all the mass graves that were found, the 10s of thousands of bodies, bound, gagged an shot execution style. You forgot to mention the MAJORITY of those innocent iraqis that were killed were done so by muslim extremists, who are trying to wage their own holy war. You forgot to mention the constant terror the innocent iraqis have had to endure for 2 decades as opposed to the last 4 yrs. You also forgot to mention that it is a WAR ZONE, people die, accidents happen and people who are too coward to stand behind the troops should stand in front of them.

Answer 4

I find it inexcusable, hence the reason I spend my entire time on this forum highlighting the arrogance and hypocrisy of so-called advanced and civilized people.

It is remarkable how insulated and removed from reality too many Americans have become. People openly and readily admit here that it is preferable to export death in the hope that it will protect them from harm in the USA. They refuse to look at history and that the American Administrations have been a greater threat to the people of America than any external force or being. I will draw your attention to two examples, The WACO siege in which Civil enforcement agencies were prepared to slaughter American citizens on their own soil, and the Katrina episode in New Orleans. In my view the most shameful and unprecedented disaster to have hit America, in which once again Civil Authorities allowed 1000s of BLACK lives to be expunged over several days. These are not external countries but American home grown disasters.

Answer 5

i'm a lot annoyed about Bush regulations for Iraq yet i'm feeling so unhappy for those 32 deaths.....it truly is a huge difference between an evil baby-kisser like Bush and peace loving humen !! for him those 32 lives might want to be very a lot efficient and Iraqis tens of millions of lives might want to by no ability count number in any respect !! he might want to easily end it up via asserting" it really is conflict and each and every little thing is only in conflict"i wish bush might want to ever do not forget that Iraqis lives are equaly efficient....the properly worth of human existence isn't sure to the section !! anyhow...might want to the souls of those danger free people from that uni relax in peace !

Answer 6

It wasn't just Americans who died on 9/11.
It also doesn't tell us in this article WHO killed all those people.
I doubt the Americans killed them all.That would be the terrorists we are trying to help get rid of.
I am sorry that civilians die anywhere but you can't even begin to compare what is going on right now to 9/11 here.

Answer 7

*Yawn* They're just Iraqis. It's not like anyone important and....WHY HAVE WE STILL NOT SEE PICTURES BABY SURI?

I sometimes get the feeling of trying to shovel back a tidal wave with a pitchfork.

I am like a gnat to my leaders.

Why are we there in the first place? Is there a real reason beyond "That man tried to kill my daddy!"?

It is deplorable how low the Republic has sunk. We are the enemy.

Answer 8

I tend to agree with you, a lot of americans place a higher value on their lives cause they are brought up told that theirs is the greatest country on earth and they are the greatest people. So when a tragedy befalls another people they go 'gosh thats sad, can u pass the gravy' but a tragedy within their borders and its ' oh my god, everybody stop and helpppp us we're american and we're important'. bout time they got over themselves, not all of them just the racist, arrogant, self-serving, lying jerks who run the country.

Answer 9

People over in Iraq are used to people dying by the bunch, Look at the way Saddam killed all the Kurds and everyone else. Those people had no freedoms at all until we went there and gave it to them!!

Answer 10

But have you also read that most, around 85% of these deaths are contributed to the death squads and the other foriegn fighters that oppose the U.S. Being there... So if it's a blame on America that this is happening, Then you get no sympathy from me...