February 6, 2007--"Nuke Us, Please."

Despair is such among so many Iraqi citizens that, after the weekend bombing of the Sadriya Market in Baghdad where 130 were killed and another 225 grievously wounded, one resident who witnessed the dismemberment of dozens of children, said—

I wish they would attack us with a nuclear bomb and kill us all so we will rest and anybody who wants the oil—which is the core of the problem—can come and get it. We cannot live this way anymore; we are dying slowly every day.

And others are so suffused with anger that vengence is all they think about. As one Shia said after Sunnis killed his brother and nephew and confiscated his farm—

The word “Sunni”’ it hurts me. All that I have lost came from that word. A volcano of revenge has built up inside me. I want to rip them up with my teeth.

So reported the NY Times in the article linked below.