Paris, Jan. 29, 2005

Tracy writes:

"My opinion is that we will all one day be asked exactly what we did about this when it was going on under our noses, just as people living near Auschwitz were, and one lame answer a lot of people will have to give will be, well we didn't like to mention the obvious parallels to Hitler, it seemed so impolite."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/012905K.shtml

From the above link, emphasis added:

"In late October, a study was published in The Lancet, a prestigious British medical journal, concluding that about 100,000 civilians had been killed in Iraq since it was invaded by a United States-led coalition in March 2003. On the eve of a contentious presidential election -- fought in part over U.S. policy on Iraq -- many American newspapers and television news programs ignored the study or buried reports about it far from the top headlines."

Precisely. Exactly.

We all wonder how it happened in Germany. Well, it just happened, and everybody knew about it. The first concentration-torture camp was in an urban neighborhood in Erfurt, a big city.

I have barely been able to deal with the Auschwitz memorial stories mixed in and out of bit-by-bit (but not actually honest) reports how many people are dying in Iraq. The hypocrisy is too shrill, and too disgusting. Nobody on television, or that I have seen, in print, is making the connection between one holocaust and another.

The whole theme of acknowledging the Holocaust is 'never again'. But we don't ask: never again what? Never again shall we let a German despot rise to power in Europe and purge everyone not German? Or never again shall we allow, support, take part in, or perpetrate war atrocities, mass murder of a population and all the lies that go with it?

While we're looking at Auschwitz, which happened in a western industrial nation within the lifetimes of not-so-old people alive today, we had better look at Iraq. Otherwise, we're going to be getting some embarrassing questions from our grandchildren.

"But why didn't you do anything?"

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