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Berg calls US Iraqi handover a 'sham'
News24

Posted on 06/29/2004 7:44:52 AM PDT by Ironfocus

London - The father of a US civilian beheaded in Iraq dismissed as an illusion trick the handover of power to an Iraqi interim administration as he joined anti-war campaigners on a visit to London to Tuesday.

"This transfer of power is nothing more than another nut and shell game of the Bush and Blair coalition" Michael Berg, 59, said of Monday's surprise handover two days earlier than planned.

"We know that the Iraqi people have not had an election yet and so we do not have a democracy over there, we just have a dictatorship of Bush and Blair," he said at a press conference for the Stop The War Coalition, in London.

Berg's son, Nick, 26, who ran his own communications business, was murdered by Iraqi insurgents last month, after being kidnapped in Baghdad.

Three days after his headless body was discovered, a video tape of the execution was posted on a website linked to al-Qaeda, leading to worldwide condemnation.

Berg, wearing a T-shirt inscribed with the name of an anti-war website (VoteNoWar.org), will join British anti-war demonstrators outside the Houses of Parliament later on Tuesday to demand coalition troops come home.

"Bush told us we had to go to war because Iraq played a part in the destruction of the twin towers, because Saddam Hussein had WMD (weapons of mass destruction), because there were connections between him and al-Qaeda", he said.

All that was false, "it was just greed," he said.

The removal of Saddam's regime had not brought stability to Iraq and "11 000 plus Iraqi citizens have been killed," Berg said. "Each one of them is as affected as I was."


TOPICS: News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: handover; iraq; michaelberg
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1 posted on 06/29/2004 7:44:52 AM PDT by Ironfocus
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It's time for this guy to go away. Forever.


2 posted on 06/29/2004 7:46:32 AM PDT by Bikers4Bush (Flood waters rising, heading for more conservative ground. Vote for true conservatives!)
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To: Ironfocus

This guys opinion rates long article. Why?


3 posted on 06/29/2004 7:47:00 AM PDT by marty60
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To: Bikers4Bush

As a father, Berg was a sham.


4 posted on 06/29/2004 7:47:21 AM PDT by sheik yerbouty
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To: Ironfocus

Nobody believes anything this nut says. He's very sick.


5 posted on 06/29/2004 7:47:41 AM PDT by Logical me (Oh, well!!!!)
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To: Ironfocus

When will Berg show up on CNN,NBC,ABC, CBS and Hardball as the new Iraq expert?

I give it a week or so.


6 posted on 06/29/2004 7:47:49 AM PDT by The South Texan (The Democrat Party and the leftist (ABCCBSNBCCNN NYLATIMES)media are a criminal enterprise!)
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To: Bikers4Bush

This guy is a traitor. He is actively attempting to cause us to lose in Iraq. He should be locked up.


7 posted on 06/29/2004 7:47:57 AM PDT by nyconse
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To: Ironfocus

Berg who?


8 posted on 06/29/2004 7:48:02 AM PDT by demlosers
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To: Ironfocus

Mr Berg would have opposed entering the war against the Axis in WW2 to shut down the ovens. A real whackjob.


9 posted on 06/29/2004 7:48:51 AM PDT by jwalsh07
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To: Ironfocus

Berg should move to France, permanently.


10 posted on 06/29/2004 7:49:04 AM PDT by 1Old Pro (is a conservative.)
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To: Ironfocus

You would think that this man would be grieving over the loss of his son.


11 posted on 06/29/2004 7:49:45 AM PDT by AngieGOP (I never met a woman who became a stripper because she played with Barbie dolls as a kid)
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To: Bikers4Bush

Paging Mr. Berg - Your fifteen minutes of fame are up...


12 posted on 06/29/2004 7:50:19 AM PDT by Kenton ("Life is tough, and it's really tough when you're stupid" - Damon Runyon)
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To: Ironfocus

He needs a little dose of STFU.


13 posted on 06/29/2004 7:50:41 AM PDT by cyborg
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To: The South Texan
When will Berg show up on CNN,NBC,ABC, CBS and Hardball as the new Iraq expert?

After he gets arrested for luring gradeschool girls over the internet for sex.

By then he will be qualified to be a WMD expert.

14 posted on 06/29/2004 7:51:08 AM PDT by 11th Earl of Mar
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To: Ironfocus

Mr. Berg, thank you for sharing....now go away.


15 posted on 06/29/2004 7:51:11 AM PDT by Right_in_Virginia
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To: Ironfocus

He didn't mind the fact that his son was over there trying to profit off of the war...?


16 posted on 06/29/2004 7:51:16 AM PDT by kjam22
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To: Ironfocus
Bush told us we had to go to war because Iraq played a part in the destruction of the twin towers

Bush NEVER said this. NEVER. You assumed it, jerkweed.

17 posted on 06/29/2004 7:51:29 AM PDT by rintense (Screw justice. I want revenge.)
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To: Ironfocus

I really feel for this guy, his son was beheaded, and the whole world saw it...

but I really think its prozac time for him


18 posted on 06/29/2004 7:52:01 AM PDT by backinthefold (9/11 changed me, and I will never forget)
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To: Ironfocus
"We know that the Iraqi people have not had an election yet and so we do not have a democracy over there, we just have a dictatorship of Bush and Blair," he said at a press conference for the Stop The War Coalition, in London.

The UN Security Council sanctioned the new government, nutbar. Funny how you internationalists shriek about Bush not having UN blessings in Iraq but neglect to mention it once it actually happens. Could it be that you only want to bash Bush and America and could care less about what happens to the people of Iraq?

19 posted on 06/29/2004 7:52:11 AM PDT by dirtboy (John Kerry - Hillary without the fat ankles and the FBI files...)
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To: Ironfocus

Pull the string and out comes a slogan:

"This transfer of power is nothing more than another nut and shell game of the Bush and Blair coalition"

"We know that the Iraqi people have not had an election yet and so we do not have a democracy over there..."

"...we just have a dictatorship of Bush and Blair"

"it was just greed"

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And don't you just love the way the writer of the article dutifully reports the name of the anti-war website printed on Berg's shirt?


20 posted on 06/29/2004 7:52:18 AM PDT by Yardstick
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