Delete many text messages at once

Okay, I've done some reading. And this is honestly a BASIC feature that needs to be implemented into the iPhone. Blackberry can do it. Android can do it. Windows phone can do it. Yet the iPhone cannot?
I have to honestly delete every single message thread one by one? I have over 2,000 people who texted me since last year 2012. And they're all there, sitting in my phone, slowing it down. I will not swipe my finger 2,000 times to get this done.
There has to be another way to highlight a large portion of my old text messages, and delete them all at once?

Well, next time delete it once you are finished not wait till you've 2000. iPhone do things differently than other phones.
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http://www.apple.com/feedback
Message was edited by: ckuan

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