Why do Jewish people tell me to 'Never forget'?

Question

When the Brookings Institute (HARVARD University) Study's latest finding is that close to 1,000,000 Iraqi's have been killed by USA bombing. Never forget? It's happening right now...

Answer 1

so situations like what happened in WW2 won't be repeated, b/c those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it. unfortunately the events of the past are being repeated right now like the crisis's in iraq and darfur. and it's up to us the ppl to get involved and our representatives involved to make a difference, to help, to try and end these horrors of conflict.

Answer 2

The Jewish people were being rounded up all over Europe and sent to Death Camps ran by the iii reich. The plan was total extermination of the Jewish race, men women and children, none were to be spared.

You are suggesting that the Americans are killing off Iraqi civilians in the same style.

1 million civilians killed by the US Airforce?? what did the drop a super quiet nuclear bomb?

To rack up that amount of figures just by bombing alone would put the US Airforce on target 24 hours aday 7 days a week for months, carpet bombing with B-52, yet there is not one iota of evidence given by you and the "number crunchers" at Brookings.

Either put up links to factual evidence or shut up.

Wrong! there are no death camps or a systematic plan to round up every Iraqi man woman and child in Iraq

Answer 3

Get your numbers straight and quit listening to Rosie. The best ACTUAL estimated number of Iraqi deaths since the beginning of the American occupation is somewhere between 60,000 and 70,000; that includes the deaths from Iraqis killing Iraqis, not just Americans killing terrorists. The higher chunk of that number is internal Iraqi-on-Iraqi chaos, actually, not American-caused. Despite what you hear and probably believe on the news, Americans do NOT routinely hunt down and kill innocent Iraqi civilians for sport. The ROE, or Rules of Engagement, are incredibly strict and absolute; if you break them, your *** is history. Just because the occasional psycho gets into the news for some atrocity doesn't mean ALL Americans are doing the same thing, and you're an idiot if you think so. The Army and the other branches ruthlessly go after anyone who breaks the rules of engagement; they even take heavy administrative action against negligent discharges fired into clearing barrels on post, which is precisely the function of those barrels. Compare that to the ruthless and senseless indiscrimination of human life displayed by terrorists who hunt down American soldiers and innocent Iraqis alike, not to mention sectarian killing squads. If you really hate your own country and countrymen enough to believe that WE'RE the savages, then hey, no one's keeping you here.

Saddam himself didn't even waste 1 million Iraqis. The best estimate stands at around a mere 600,000 or so--the number that Al-Rosie claims our "American terrorists" have wasted--and that's to say nothing of the myriad of ways he killed that 600,000, either.

Stop believing everything you see on TV. Next thing you know you're going to start thinking Smurfs and Teletubbies are real, too.

Answer 4

I would like to see the true casualty rates for civilians in Iraq. I dont know where to put the number at, but the majority of Iraqi civilians are being killed by suicide bombers, not Americans, just watch the news, these are not "USA bombing." I am not defending what we are doing in the war but the insurgents/suicide bombers/terrorists are openly targetting civilians, not the US troops.

You also claim to "never forget." Again I am just playing devil's advocate here. Did you forget about the 2 million people that Saddam killed during his reign?

It seems right now the insurgents and the terrorists do not even care about the US troops, they are more content of killing sunnis or shiites depending on their sect.

It is horrible so many civilians are dying in Iraq but dont throw all the blame into one basket (USA's), many many groups are to blame what is going on in Iraq.

Answer 5

They say to never forget because about 60 years ago their parents and great grandparents were rounded up like animals and locked within camps. Then they where forced to work for their captors while being systematically killed either by mass murder, gassing or burned within ovens.
As to the amount of Iraqis that have died in our attack on their country the real numbers are very hard come by, but too many is a good enough number for me.

Answer 6

An obvious reference to the Holocaust.

As for the Iraqi casaulty count:

It is much higher than 64,000 and below a million. Exact figures will take a decade or more to figure out. I put it somewhere in the neighborhood of 165,000 or so (figuring 100 people killed a day for 4.5 years).

Answer 7

The difference is the Iraqi's are doing it to themselves. The Jews were being systematically wiped out by the Nazi's. The Brookings institute is a far left think tank that is basically saying we have killed all the iraqi's that have died. Sunni's and Shite's are killing each other with the Kurds stuck in the middle.

Answer 8

What does the Brooking Institute study have to do with Jews telling you to never forget? Are you insinuating something?

Answer 9

I'm sorry that I do not know more.
I have been listening to the Jewish traditions, etc., since falling in love with my partner...
The thing is, here, that the Jews have always run from war when not cornered.
The idea has always been peace. Israel was only created because after thousands of years, the Jews finally defended themselves, and engaged in defensive war rather than leave their foregin homes.
I have no idea why you would compare the Jews in Germany to the USA in Iraq.
Germany had no aggressor other than Hitler, and his followers, and then his forced followers who had no courage to hide refugees but killed instead.
Iraq has never been at peace, that I can recall, not in thousands of years.
The area has been fraught with wars, foreign and domestic, for all of relevant Time.
What can your point be in comparing them, when there is such grave disparity?

Answer 10

1,000,000 sounds way to high. Where did you get that stat from? Everything I've seen puts it between 100,000 and 300,000. High numbers to be sure, but not 1 million. A lot of these stats are bad anyway, because no one group is overseeing the counting. Many bodies are counted twice or more times, inflating the perceived death count.