[MinuteGal]

You're correct. We have to keep two trains of analysis apart here, although it's difficult if not impossible.

We have a traumatized father and family on one hand. Be that as it may, I have this gut feeling the father is also a hard-core, very experienced and clever liberal operative, capable of recruiting his son into nefarious plots.

It's also remarkable how the elder Berg was untraumatized enough to get certain political spin statements out to the public immediately after his son's death was announced. He used a tried-and-true leftist tactic, i.e. get the spin out right away because first impressions are lasting.

Thus, the grieving father aggressively made sure the media and public knew right off the bat that the son was "pro-Bush" and "anti-war"....out-of-sync-type statements that raised preliminary warning signals in some of our little grey cells.

Leni

[backtothestreets]

And you're right too, and expressed it better then I did.

The mixing of events tends to split the nation when we need unity most. My sincere regrets to the family of Nick Berg. Regardless of what his father, family, or friends say, the photo will forever show his murderers as barbaric terrorists. Regardless of what connections Nick Berg had prior to his execution, the executioners were barbaric terrorists.

Keep that focus. Don't let anyone, whatever their politics, put another spin on this tragic event.

Also, don't allow anyone to accept the terrorists claim this was in retaliation to prison abuses. For all that wondered what separated humiliation from torture, the terrorists provided the answer. Never let anyone equate the humiliation of Iraqi prisoners to the tortured execution of Nick Berg.

We must stay focused on the task at hand. Defeat terrorism. Defeat terrorism. Defeat terrorism.