Posted on 05/13/2004 9:13:32 PM PDT by kristinn
I still want to give a father time to grieve. That is human compassion. It is so strange, however, that his anger is not directed toward his son's murderers. It is not normal.
Nazis?
The more I read and hear about the Bergs, one can only surmise neither had enough smarts to act with intelligence in a very dangerous situation. The fact that the son had an opportunity to return home and decided not to on the advice of his father, says a lot about them. Typical the blame is placed elsewhere.
I just put him in the same bucket as the "9-11 Families". He is more concerned about being "right" about the war than honoring his son. It makes me sick.
This is so weird.
The normal reaction by a father would be anger, hate and revenge against those that killed his son - the ones that sawed his head off. No normal person would ignore those people saying "I don't blame the terrorists that did this" or "they are probably as bad as he is".
The normal father would be wanting every effort - war included - to go after the men that did this - the ones with the knife.
Something is really fishy here. I am almost beginning to feel the son may have been there for subversive reasons and the "support Bush" was a cover-up of the real purposes.
His father acting like he is indicates a loyalty to the terrorists and a rabid hate for this country and Bush.
Yet - why would they kill one of their own?
I don't think grief is causing Mr. Berg to act in this manner. I did at first, but not anymore. The guy is a radical leftist, crazy to the core with liberalism. I feel so sorry for Nick Berg to have a father such as Michael Berg.
I also cannot ,for the life of me, understand this. The butchers who commited this act did so with relish.
Leftist's use and like the term because it is close to neo-fascist. That is how they view us.
When you find a cockroach under your sink you simply step on it and go on.
" An alternative, left-leaning blog, www.breakfornews.com, posted a story theorizing that the Iraqi police had detained Nick Berg because his company, Prometheus Methods Tower Service Inc., and his father had been named on a list of "enemies" of the Iraq occupation in March. "We are hearing this from "Duluth News Tribune "
You want answers? Ask your friends at ANSWER.
Lynndie wanted to go to college to become a tornado chaser. Where do people study tornado chasing? -- Norman, Oklahoma.
Nicholas Berg went to college. Where did he go to college? Norman, Oklahoma.
Moussaoui, who borrowed Berg's internet account. Where did Moussaoui go to flight school? Norman, Oklahoma.
A witness said she saw two Middle Eastern men driving a truck that was connected with the OKC bombing. Where was the truck stolen? Norman, Oklahoma.
12 years ago I used to be a democrat. I came to my senses and have been registered as an Independent ever since. Most Republicans aren't conservative enough for me and there are many things I don't agree with Bush on. But I swear, the demented squalling I've heard and read from the left ever since Nick Berg's demise makes me recoil in horror at the thought of ANY one of them EVER being in power in MY country again. They've made my decision for me. I will be voting for Bush.
As in all mysteries.....he knew too much. Now, don't ask me WHAT he knew...but I'd guess he knew something.
Are we in the Twilight Zone????
I also mourn the untimely death of your son. Could I have done so....I would have intervened to prevent that dastardly act......
But, Mr. Berg, your son was a "grown man" of "legal age" and he made a decision to go to Iraq.
His personal decision is not the fault of the President nor the Congress nor anyone of our government.
It is most unfortunate and I do understand your grief.
Please do not blame US for it. Instead place your blame on the swine who committed his brutal murder.
Your son, after all, was a "private contractor". He was not a "combatant". He was not in the military service of our country. Be that as it may, he was an American Citizen. It is my hope that his brutal murder shall be avenged a hundred fold.
Ask not if the President could have prevented this murder. Rather ask, instead, why the Islam population have stood by while their own people have "murdered" several thousand of our people in our own land...... people who were only "going to work one morning to provide for the needs of their families". When the Islamics begin to speak out against these brutalities.......Then, and only then shall I "listen" to your verbal attacks against our President, et al.
Mr. Berg, May God hold you in his hands in your terrible time of grief now. But, Please, Mr. Berg......Blame those who are responsible sir. Not US.....our President, our institutions of government, our military.
(Bad things sometimes happen to Good people.)
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?
Also can't figure out how someone who wants no media manages to go out and talk to them about Bush's guilt, while absolving the terrorists who butchered his son.
Nor can I fathom how Mike Berg seems to think it was the Bush Administration's responsibility to be in loco parentis for Nick in Iraq when he, the biological father, seemed to hold now sway over his son's going to Iraq in the first place.
Grief alone does not explain any of this ... it sounds as if his hatred for Bush surpasses his sorrow at the loss of his son, and he is venting his anger not only in the wrong direction towards Bush, but well away from himself for his own failings as a father. Maybe it's his only way to cope, but none of it makes a lot of sense.
I think that he was trying to say that after the terrorist used Berg's email account, the address was then passed on, perhaps through forwarding maybe?
Anyway, it seems to me that if his email address was passed on and actually used, there isn't anyway for Berg not to know it is there?
I hate to say it, but I am starting to think Nick Berg was not just some innocent contracter trying to make money.
I think that more than a few people listening to Mr. Berg will reach the same conclusion. Using the brutal murder of his son to further a political agenda is disgusting. Unable to restrain himself from trying to score political points for his "side", Mr. Berg may unwittingly open the eyes of some people to what leftists are all about....that for them, there is NOTHING that transcends the political.
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