More suicidal lunacy in Iraq

I don't comment often on news out of Iraq but here is an exception. Some news from Reuters.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A suicide bomber lured a crowd of Shi'ite day laborers to his minivan and blew it up, killing 114 people and wounding more than 156 in Baghdad's old town on Wednesday,
Iraq's second deadliest car bombing since war began.

The bomber drew the men to his vehicle with promises of work before detonating the bomb, which contained up to 500 lbs (220 kilos) of explosives, an Interior Ministry source said.

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"We gathered and suddenly a car blew up and turned the area into fire and dust and darkness," said Hadi, one of the workers who survived the attack, which happened shortly after sunrise.
Bodies lay in the street beside burned-out cars, witnesses said. Some used wooden carts to haul away the dead.
Police said 114 people were killed and 156 wounded in the explosion. It was the deadliest attack since July, when 98 people were killed in a blast south of the capital.

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"There's no political party here, there are no police," Mohammed Jabbar railed at the scene. "This targeted civilians, innocents. Why women and children?" he added, as bystanders shouted, "Why? Why?"

A very good question. Just like Stephen Taylor, I can't understand the mindset it would take to do such an act. You would think these attacks are more about power and God, to those who plan it I think this would apply but to those who blow themselves up it is quite possibly the latter. But what God believes in the slaughter of innocents?

I just think this should re-inforce the idea we have to fight the war on terror before it hits our shores with acts like this. I'm certain there are people who want to just this in the US.