(Wall Street Journal) - After a Wall Street Journal editorial about a Palestinian mother who celebrated her son's homicide mission and hoped her other children would follow, a reader wrote to the woman: "I want to buy your children. I'll offer more than Saddam Hussein; he'll pay $25,000 each, if they are willing to turn themselves into human bombs, but I'll pay $30,000 each. For a long time my wife and I have wondered what we might do to help in the war on terror. In buying your children, I see an opportunity for us to save countless innocent lives, among them your seven children. Contact me. I'll pay.
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