But I am sure if Leo Tolstoy was alive he would have provided us with a more tragic picture of war in another novel with no less impact and literary excellence.

Yes, there are massacres in Darfur; there are massacres in other areas in Africa. Yes, there were massacres in Bosnia. But our massacre is of the type history has never seen for the following reasons:

1.      It has taken so long time, perhaps more than the duration of any other massacre in history.

2.      In our country one party slaughters the other with devastating killings from almost everywhere.

3.      In Iraq this massacre started with the 2003-U.S. invasion, it is going on at full speed now and only God knows when it will come to an end. The aggressive occupation army is the killer number one. It has dragged along to the killing arena it has created scores of the so-called security contractors and militia groups as well as al-Qaeda-linked terrorists and many others all pointing their guns at a peaceful and unarmed people, i.e. we the Iraqis.

4.      While massacres in other parts of the world have been confined to a certain area, ours has no confines as it occurs across the country from Zakho in the north down Fao in the south.

Here are some of the horrific traits of the massacre currently taking place in our country. Car bombs, raids by helicopter gun ships, organized crimes by militias such as the Madhi Army of radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, bodies bored with special machines, bodies hit in the back, bodies shot in the head, bodies thrown into the river, etc.

The question is when those in charge of our fate will raise the olive branch. The decision to hoist the olive branch is in the hands of the American occupier. History shows when America invades a country it decorates its path with destruction and corpses which it continues mutilating even after death.

Our massacre is bound to continue so long as the strategies and political inclinations as well as the Zionist mentality has sanctioned the new Christian fundamentalists in the White House and so long as Bush thinks he receives his orders from God and is the prophet assigned to reinstate peace on earth excluding its Muslim part.

I think Bush needs to be electrocuted in order to come back to his senses. Americans and their Congress are required to rise up to contain this lunatic and force him not to snub and wage war on olive branch.

Bush is responsible for the war in Iraq and the subsequent tragedy and massacre with all their traits mentioned above.

Our massacre has gone on longer that a human organism can tolerate. Hundreds of thousands of us have been killed or injured. Millions displaced and the fear is what is in store might even be worse.