Berg Died for Bush, Rumsfeld 'Sins' - Father

Reuters ^ | Thu, May 13, 2004 | Reuters

[taxesareforever]

"I am sure that he only saw the good in his captors until the last second of his life," Berg said.

Please tell me, what was the "good" that he saw.

[jess35]

No, we don't have to give him a break. His father jumped at the chance to blame the Bush administration for his son's death because it furthers his political goals. He is a typical liberal.

[Centurion2000]

Then, referring to his son's executioners, he said: "They did not know what they were doing. They killed their best friend."

The father is a piece of dogs$%^, no way would I EVER make an excuse for savages that SAWED MY SON'S HEAD OFF on camera.

[rep-always]

I refer you all back to the Bible. The sins of the father etc. It is amazing how this man can speak this way about President Bush and Secretary Rumsfeld and in the same breath excuse his son's murderers. Grieve or not I cannot excuse this type of talk.

[Piranha]

I think what Michael Berg means is that he opposed American involvement in Iraq, but he reconciled himself to his son's business there because he was an apolitical, benevolent do-gooder who was trying to build the infrastructure of their country, not an American soldier with a political agenda.

I agree with those other posters that he is politicizing his son's death, when his son seems to have been quite apolitical. I fear that in a few months he will be just as vociferous in his public statements, and probably will even speak at the Democratic Convention.

[jwalsh07]

"They did not know what they were doing. They killed their best friend."

My word. If my family ever did this to me, I would get a 24 hour pass from St Peter and make thwem regret it.

[carton253]

Jeremy Glick went down on Flight 93... but I believe that there are two Jeremy Glicks... one that opposes the war...

[Always Right]

"I am sure that he only saw the good in his captors until the last second of his life," Berg said.

Some people are a little slow...

[Phantom Lord]

We can only hope that the DNC fills up their prime time speaking slots with rabib, anti-war, Bush and America hating speakers.

Al Sharpton will just be icing on the cake.

[RGSpincich]

My son died for the sins of George Bush and Donald Rumsfeld. This administration did this,

This girlyman is beginning to piss me off. He insisted his son be unprotected by US forces, lawsuit filed 4/5/04 in PA Federal Court.

[MamaLucci]

His son was not an anti-war activist. He supported the administration and the war in Iraq.

At least that's what his father has told us......

[Alberta's Child]

This is precisely the kind of rational thought that I would expect from brain-damaged morons like this. Just consider the father's comments in the context of this unbelievable sequence of events:

1. Nick Berg is allegedly detained by U.S. military and/or FBI personnel in Iraq.

2. Family files a lawsuit in U.S. Federal court, claiming that he is being detained against his will.

3. Nick Berg is released. U.S. military and/or FBI personnel warn him that Iraq is a dangerous place, and offer to fly him home. He refuses.

4. After his execution, his father blames the Bush administration and the U.S. military -- for their failure to detain Nick Berg against his will and send him home.

It just doesn't get any more rational than that, now does it?

[Piranha]

Astounded, I'm a bit more psychologically inclined than you are.

I see his father as a tortured soul who was stridently political and an irreligious Bush-hater. Yet his son went out to redneck country (Oklahoma) outside of the elite Northeast for his education, was finding his soul in religion and went abroad to Iraq, possibly the most dangerous place in the world, to rebuild in an apolitical way. His father probably reconciled himself to his son's actions by telling himself that his son was helping the average Iraqi and would see the good in all people.

Then, his son is brutally tortured/murdered by al-Zarqawi himself, and the father concludes that if only the US government had not invaded Iraq, his son would not have gone there and would be alive today.

Also, he doesn't trust the US government, so he is angry about the fact that his son was held (by whomever) for several days and, according to his theory, released into a much more dangerous place.

I think this guy truly is in pain.

Of course, that doesn't mean he's not a jerk.

[alnick]

I hope you don't think that's too harsh. It's just that if they went and whacked a "fellow traveler", well, let's just say that it's ironic. And once I put your son into the "Friends of Al Qeada" category, it even begins to be a little funny... kind of like that little Commiebitch Rachel Corrie, except even stupider, because you make it sound like he died too stupid to realize that the monsters who kidnapped him weren't his "friends".

This is disgraceful. Nick Berg was an AMERICAN. Al Qaeda beheaded him with a dull knife.

Since it matters to you, the father is the lefty. Nick Berg was a supporter of the war in Iraq and President Bush.

The son is not the father.

[mizzmouse]

The *issue* is, Here in America, We teach *our* kids to care. You don't give a homeless person a hand OUT ...But you give them a hand UP. If they choose not to take it, screw them at that point. I again will say I saw the video and it is horrid. I can not for the life of me, imagine what his parents are going through. As Americans, We were taught compassion. This was a pure and brutal terrorist act. I am not sure why the boy was over there, I think some of it *was* compassion, and some the allmighty dollar. The boy WAS warned. If he died because he was trying to please his parents and make a bigger buck, thats wrong too. Money is not worth your life.
Right now, My thoughts are with his parents.
$500.00 for a ticket to Iraq..
$300.00 for hotel fees....

Your very life? Broadcast across the internet???

PRICELESS.

[MamaLucci]

Can you imagine watching your child murdered in such a horrific manner,
and in a matter of days, take to the airwaves to place the blame on
someone OTHER THAN THE ANIMALS THAT DID IT?
It boggles the mind.

[RightWhale]

We're not going to continue to give Dad the benefit of the shock and grief factor much longer. If he is well enough to talk to the press, he is well enough to be treated like any other demagogue.

[alnick]

I seriously doubt that everyone, including Berg's high school friend, is lying about Nick's political beliefs.

What I am having a hard time understanding is why so many people seem to think that the son must have been a lefty because the father was. It's very common for parents and their children to have opposing political views.

[Delbert]

The father is dishonoring the son and the rest of the sons family.

[mizzmouse]

PING........huge