"I wish they would attack us with a nuclear bomb and kill us all"

Received this in an email from friends, quoting report in the New York Times

:-|

> "I saw with my own eyes young children flying from the
> windows of the apartments on top of the shops when the
> explosion arrived," said Haydar Abdul Jabbar, 28, a
> car mechanic who was standing near a barber shop when
> the bomb exploded. "One woman threw herself out of the
> window when the fire came close to her."
>
> Mr. Abdul Jabbar said he rushed to collapsed buildings
> trying to help the wounded, but found mainly hands,
> skulls and other body parts.
>
> "The government is supposed to protect us, but they
> are not doing their job," he said. "I watch the TV and
> see the announcements on the imminent implementation
> of the security plan. Where is it, for God's sake?"
>
> "I wish they would attack us with a nuclear bomb and
> kill us all," he added, "so we will rest and anybody
> who wants the oil - which is the core of the problem -
> can come and get it. We can not live this way anymore.
> We are dying slowly every day."

NY Times article here:
Iraqis Fault Pace of U.S. Plan in Attack
from 4 Feb

My correspondent asks:
> Something is afoot when even the New York Times lets
> the truth be reported - how can our respective
> citizens live with the carnage our govts and media
> propagandists have unleashed?