Posted on 05/13/2004 9:13:32 PM PDT by kristinn
Let me take you back to one Hanoi John Kerry's appearance before a senate panel in 1971...
We were just mentioned on the Glenn Beck radio program.
With all of Mr. Berg's anti-war rhetoric, I don't believe he understands that we are fighting a real war. If he understood that, he would never have stood by while his son placed himself in harms way. Or maybe Mr. Berg thought the money was worth the risk. I don't know. What I do know is that Mr. Berg does not take the Al Qaeda threat seriously. \
The denial on the left is nothing short of stunning.
The 'media' you speak of are anti-American socialist/commies who more and more blatantly mouth their sedition and treason as we prove daily on Free Republic. That is why Gannet doesn't want anything they print excerpted here. They want to work without scrutiny. We'll see if the average American still buys their bilge when terrorists have their next big success.
Great. What did he say?
Michael Berg is an avid anti-war activist.
Pro-self defense?
I've got it going in the background in the office, but he kept making different connections. Mentioned that there Berg was mentioned on FR. Then went on to talk about the Oklahoma connection.
Kept interspersing it with the song clip 'Just another isolated incident.'
He may come back around to it (commerical right now).
The little boy was walking down a path and he came across a rattlesnake. The rattlesnake was getting old. He asked, "Please little boy, can you take me to the top of the mountain? I hope to see the sunset one last time before I die." The little boy answered "No Mr. Rattlesnake. If I pick you up, you'll bite me and I'll die." The rattlesnake said, "No, I promise. I won't bite you. Just please take me up to the mountain." The little boy thought about it and finally picked up that rattlesnake and took it close to his chest and carried it up to the top of the mountain.
They sat there and watched the sunset together. It was so beautiful. Then after sunset the rattlesnake turned to the little boy and asked, "Can I go home now? I am tired, and I am old." The little boy picked up the rattlesnake and again took it to his chest and held it tightly and safely. He came all the way down the mountain holding the snake carefully and took it to his home to give him some food and a place to sleep. The next day the rattlesnake turned to the boy and asked, "Please little boy, will you take me back to my home now? It is time for me to leave this world, and I would like to be at my home now." The little boy felt he had been safe all this time and the snake had kept his word, so he would take it home as asked.
He carefully picked up the snake, took it close to his chest, and carried him back to the woods, to his home to die. Just before he laid the rattlesnake down, the rattlesnake turned and bit him in the chest. The little boy cried out and threw the snake upon the ground. "Mr. Snake, why did you do that? Now I will surely die!" The rattlesnake looked up at him and grinned, "You knew what I was when you picked me up."
Thanks.
"N" is for Newsmedia
What do you have against animals?
I prefer the term “things” when referring to the things that sawed off the man’s head.
Heck, even “beheading” isn’t the right term. It carries the connotation of a relatively quick execution.
…why the public display of grief?
Media spotlight.
What about the fact that no one made his son go to Iraq. Free will did play a part in this.
I can't figured out how, if the family was told of Nick's death and decapitation by Monday, they were out on the lawn Tuesday gabbing with the reporters preying there ... then, only on hearing it had been videotaped and put on the web, did the father collapse in grief?
I think Mr. Berg collapsed in grief because he realized America would see the videotape.
American citizens would be outraged by the wanton brutality Nick suffered.
American citizens would once again be resolved to support President Bush in the war on terror.
Mr. Berg's anti-American and anti-Bush goals would face an enormous setback.
"This stupid SOB got his kid killed by filing a lawsuit against the USA for protecting his son. The military had to cut him lose."
I'm confused, the military never "had" him. I haven't seen it reported anywhere that there was a connection between the lawsuit and the release.
where's his MOTHER??? Doesn't sound like this kid was given much supervision...
I read comments from her right after it became known what had happened to their son. I picked up on a weird thing she said and highlighted it on the thread.
She said the U.S. government had informed them of how their son died, and she said "We didn't want it to become public" (or something very close to that phrasing). I pointed out the U.S. government had NOT publicized how he died. It was the terrorist murderers who posted the video on the website that publicized it.
I wondered at the time if she was subtley blaming the U.S. for the news getting out, and now I'm positive that is what she was doing.
pro-American is the best because of what it says about us, and what it says about the left
After reading all of these strange coincidences, I'm ready to put the tin foil on because there is something not right about Nick Berg, his father, ANSWER and Al Qaeda.
This whole Berg-Moussaoui-AQ-Iraq connection is highly suspicious in my opinion.
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