Posted on 05/14/2004 3:34:08 AM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
There isn't.
"Nicholas Berg died for the sins of George Bush and Donald Rumsfeld," Michael Berg said. "The al-Qaida people are probably just as bad as they are, but this administration did this."
It had nothing to do with the son’s being in Iraq with no corporate or government sponsorship? He was basically a tourist looking for work in one of the most - if not the most - dangerous places in the world.
He was Jewish and American, and had entered Iraq from Israel - with the Israeli visa stamp on his passport.
He was so idealistic he didn’t think this would draw attention from both sides?
"Mr. berg, I have a bridge ..."
I have recently thought about starting a business of selling different bridges across the country to extremist liberal wackos. I think it might be a lucrative venture.
That is probably the gist of it. He was a victim, not an activist. I put up this thread to show his father's ideological leanings knowing full well he would make use of the attention the media will give to a grieving parent.
I heard him...beyond comprehension.
I see someone has swallowed the spin like a good little fish
Probably? Sawing your son's head off, and still just probably? Something STINKS to the point of putrefaction here.
For libs, it seems to trump all other things.
"selling different bridges across the country"
You might have a good idea there. A liberal will buy anything.
Can you tell me what you mean by "the spin"? There is something in this story that I am missing - and it's beginning to scare me. Who was Nick Berg? Who is his father?
He is making full use of the media for his message - and I’m getting tired of hearing it every time the news comes on. Our “esteemed” media no longer covers the barbaric act or the things (I can not call them “people” or “animals”) that participated in it, but their reason for it - it’s all W’s fault.
I see someone has swallowed the spin like a good little fish
What WERE Berg Jr.'s views and political affiliations? Not that it has a bearing on whether this was an atrocity or not - it most definitely was.
But now that the media is trying to make this a political smear on Bush, it begs the question of why he was over there - and whether his father did or did not support his journey. There are a lot of very contradictory images of and reasons for this young man's mission in Iraq. Does anybody have any good information or theories? I don't take anything at face value from Smear media anymore.
FoxNews Coalition Spokesman, Dan Senor is saying...
Berg was IN custody of Iraqi police. He was contacted 3 times by FBI. [Apparently, custody did not change.] Senor is still reading emails and digging (he is in Bagdad).
I agree. From the calm deneanor of Nick Berg directly prior to his death, to the strange facts surrounding his time in Iraq, to the questions about his company, to his fathers role in the anti-war movement and his subsequent behavior towards the media it is all very bizzare.
Another FReeper suggested that it could have been a human sheild gone awry. He was poo-pooed, because the media said that NB did not share his fathers views, with little or no proof. It's not time to break out the tin-foil hats. there are some very strange goings on here that need to be put together to create the real picture, though.
"This is an administration that allows something that they arrogantly called the Patriot Act to strip away America, to make America not the America that I grew up in,"
Interesting how Mr. Berg singles out the Patriot Act in his diatribe. You can bet that for some reason the FEDS have been all over this family. I would love to tell him that the Patriot Act is nothing in comparison to let's, say Beijing or Tehran, obviously countries his party supports.
Actually the son was more conservative than his father. The son supported Bush and the War Effort.
What evidence leads us to believe that Nick was a Bush supoorter?
Where is the evidence for this?
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