Since we are praying and remembering the innocent victims of 9/11 today, shouldn't we also remember the?

Question

655,000 Innocent Iraqi men,women and children who have also died.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/10/AR2006101001442.html

I mean they weren't all terrorists.

Answer 1

If they are going around tossing explosive devices, or strapping them to themselves and blowing themselves up, I would not consider them innocent.

There are always some casualties in a war, even by friendly fire, but we try to limit them to a very small percent.

I wouldn't put any stock in what the Washington Post or the New York Times has to say on any issue. Their reports are always biased in favor of the left wing of this country, and I might say hostile to religion as well.

ghost, it is easy to repeat the claptrap that others have spewed, but we are not benefiting from the oil in Iraq. We are doing what we can to assist them in rebuilding a civilized society using the revenue from the oil to build buildings, provide jobs, etc.

grace2u

Answer 2

We should remember them, certainly. I feel horrible for the innocent people who have lost their lives, and I feel for their family members who were left behind.

Only a person with no conscience WOULDN'T feel anything.

I think your numbers are wrong though, and that's based off of what the Iraqi government has said. Why would they lie? Besides, I'd rather trust those who are there or who have been there than ANYONE else, even (and especially) our own news media.

I've interviewed dozens of Iraqi War veterans, and only a few of them ever shot anyone, or even saw anyone killed. I just ask them to tell me anything that they don't feel uncomfortable sharing that they saw there...and I can usually tell if someone's lying or hiding the truth from me. Usually once they find that I won't condemn them, no matter WHAT happened down range, they open up to me, and tell me everything. They tell me about coming on the scene of a suicide bombing, and seeing limbs everywhere, and dead bodies. They tell me about seeing one of the humvees in their convoy getting blown up by an IED right in front of them. They tell me about Iraqi children crying for mom and dad after an attack.

I think they would be honest if they ever killed anyone. One of the soldiers did tell me that someone in his unit shot an old man because he wouldn't show them what he had in his hands. He thought (and still thinks) that the old man was innocent. See what I mean? They tell me everything. I'm a sympathetic listener.

Answer 3

Innocent lives lost has unfortunately become a fact of war. Particularly this war since the enemy are cowards and hide out amid civilians, rather than come out in lines of battle as in the past.
Today we remember 9/11 victims and their families alone because they are the victims of this day. Six years ago today, any Iraqis killed were killed by the constant civil wars that plague that nation. The Iraqis who have lost their lives can be remembered whenever you wish; certainly, pray for the civil wars in the Middle East to end for that is causing the ongoing large death tolls there.

Answer 4

We should remember ALL innocent victims of war. Remembering innocent people ought not to be politicized.

You are trying to politicize the 9-11 tragedy by dragging Iraq into it. As matters stand, 9-11was not just an attack on America, it was an attack on all humanity Innocent people besides Americans--Canadians and Arabs and many other nationalities--were killed.

On this special day, let us just remember the 9-11 casualties, without diluting the sorrow by globalizing it or politicizing it by dragging in Iraq.

I opposed the invasion of Iraq, by the way,and I am no fan of Mr. Bush.

Answer 5

Let's just remember those that fell on 911 today.
It's their day .
I do agree that Iraq is a tragedy and we had no reason to go there since those behind 911 were and are in Afghanistan and Pakistan, but today is about the tragedy and the victims on that day not the victims that came later.

Answer 6

remeber yes but pray? well they are already dead so no use in praying for them but family members yes. But what we should be doing is praying for those that will be another statistic, since they still have the chance of being saved. Although it is a shame that so many innocent died, my question is really to the iraqi and afghani people. Which do you prefer life before the war or continue with operations? I mean they didn't have roadside bombs before the war, yes they had persecution and what not but it wasn't this bad.

Answer 7

Wait a sec.... praying and remembering who? What now?

And what the heck is innocence anyway?


... Besides... Who prays for the Amazon Rainforest and the untold billions of other animals who have died there for human convenience?

For that matter... who prays for those who died during the events of the end-Permian extinction 251.4 million years ago... when over 99% of life on the planet died?


.... So... what is all this 9/11 nonsense you're talking about? A few humans explode or something? A minor event. A nothingness. A trifle. Hardly worth my time.... let alone those Iraqi folks...

Answer 8

another question just said 70,000 what a jump. Remember them if you wish that is fine but today is to remember an attack on the United States. Just like Pearl Harbor.

Answer 9

9/11 was a very happy day for George W. Bush. It gave him the justification he'd been seeking to attack Iraq under some guise of protecting our 'freedom' and finding WMDs. It was his ticket to suspending civil rights laws, torturing people, and driving this country into the ground.

Answer 10

Not only them but the men and women who's lives were taken ever since we entered the Iraq war.