Father of beheaded man feels no relief over Zarqawi

Reuters ^ | Jun 8, 2006 | Jon Hurdle

[Anti-Bubba182]

PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Michael Berg, whose son Nick was beheaded in Iraq in 2004, said on Thursday he felt no sense of relief at the killing of the al Qaeda in Iraq leader blamed for his son's death.

Asked what would give him satisfaction, Berg, an anti-war activist and candidate for U.S. Congress, said: "The end of the war and getting rid of George Bush."

The United States said its aircraft killed Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the insurgent leader who masterminded the death of hundreds in suicide bombings and was blamed for the videotaped beheading of Nick Berg, a U.S. contractor, and other captives.

In a telephone interview from his home in Wilmington, Delaware, the father said: "I have no sense of relief, just sadness that another human being had to die."

Berg, who is running as a Green Party candidate, has repeatedly blamed President Bush and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld for his son's death.

Nick Berg's videotaped beheading by hooded captors was posted on the Internet, and the father said he could understand what Zarqawi's family was going through.

"As the poet John Donne said, any man's death diminishes me. It doesn't bring my son back, and this will just bring a new cycle of revenge killings," the father said.

Zarqawi's organization took responsibility for the execution of Nick Berg, 26, in May 2004. The video was published with a caption saying: "Abu Musab al-Zarqawi slaughtering an American."

When an Islamist Web site showed the video of a man severing Berg's head, the CIA said Zarqawi was probably the one wielding the knife.

The father said he was not convinced that Zarqawi's organization was responsible for his son's killing, as stated by the U.S. government. "I have been lied to by my own government," he said.

[Anti-Bubba182]

The bold is beyond belief! They have video tape provided by the terrorists showing Zarqawi personally cutting the head off of his son!

Michael Berg is a longtime leftist. This is how they think.

[GnL]

What a tool.

[Rummyfan]

Michael Berg is one sick s-o-b! I actually feel pity for him.

[Disturbin]

Perhaps he is not familiar with Exhibit A for the Prosecution:

http://www.thememoryhole.org/war/berg_killing.zip

[TravisBickle]

mental illness, without a doubt

[Huck]

He's on MSNBC right now. He's a green party kook.

[Callahan]

Moron just wanted to invite him to therapy group and share a group hug.

[wideawake]

It's probably better to be dead than to live with the shame of having a father as repulsively evil as Michael Berg.

[cvq3842]

I feel sorry that Berg had a father like this.

It's like blaming FDR for sons killed by the Nazis. Oh, I forgot, Bush is the Nazi to these jerks. Really, is that how sick it's becoming? Sad beyond words.

How many interviews with fathers of the beheaded who are GLAD we smoked this Z punk will there be? We all know the answer.

Ann Coulter hits the nail on the head again . . .

[YaYa123]

I"m watching this guy being interviewed right now on MSNBC. He's a real sicko...it's hard to watch so misguided a man, pathetic, embarrrrassing, and he's so absurd!!

He's running for congress? Michael Berg, his name, we need to keep close tabs on a man like this.

[BenLurkin]

I don't think this poor man is to blame for his delusions.

What is sad is that the news people would put somebody demented by grief onto the air for public spectacle.

[susannah59]

I can't help but think his reaction would be different if it were Bush or Rumsfeld who had died.

Once again, it's all Bush's fault. The terrorists are saying "The Devil (Bush) made me do it" and the liberals are buying it.

[Disturbin]

"What is sad is that the news people would put somebody demented by grief onto the air for public spectacle."

Welcome to the drive-by media.

[danneskjold]

Michael Berg is a longtime leftist. This is how they think.

If that sort of thinking wasn't such a threat to the free and democratic way of life, I would feel a lot more sympathy for anyone who had to wake up and face the world every day with those beliefs.

[MEG33]

I heard his say this and worse on Fox...He is clearly a very "disturbed" man..I suggest strong meds for his sickness.

[F15Eagle]

They have video tape provided by the terrorists showing Zarqawi personally cutting the head off of his son!

I didn't know he was the one who personally did it. Wow.

[sine_nomine]

I thought Ann was being extreme until I read what the Jersey Girls were saying on TV.

We have a significant portion of America suffering from mental illness, delusion, and self-hatred.

[spectre]

Berg's Dad should start courting Cindy Sheehan..They'd make the perfect couple.

sw

[Menehune56]

About what one would expect - there are similar sentiments on the bizarro websites. Sickening nevertheless.

[mtbopfuyn]

With Z's abrupt change of plans, it throws a wrench in the Berg's Thanksgiving dinner with an odd number of place settings.

[COUNTrecount]

Micheal Berg, meet Cindy Sheehan.

[mtbopfuyn]

I feel sorry that Berg had a father like this.

Don't feel too sorry. The nut didn't fall far from the tree.

[Cindy]

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[ecurbh]

I saw him interviewed on MSNBC this morning, and was just gobsmacked. He said he feels sorry for Zarqawi's family because they're "going through what I went through." What a piece of work.

[pissant]

He is no more delusional than the vast majority of democrats and leftists. The enemy within.

[gopwinsin04]

This poor man is mentally ill.

[Vaquero]

Mr Berg as a non combatant and a contractor could have opted for a safer job. He put himself in harms way by taking a job in Iraq. He threw the dice and he lost.

[AngieGOP]

"Moron just wanted to invite him to therapy group and share a group hug."

I met a lady from Delaware a few months back and she told me that Berg is a member of her grief group. He must put on a different face for MSM. He is a sad case. I pity him.

[FlingWingFlyer]

The pinhead is one sick bass turd. He hates President Bush so much that he is saddened to hear of the death of the fanatical, murdering Muslim terrorist who sawed off the head of his son and put the video on the Internet. I saw on FNC that this braindead idiot said that Zarqawi's death is only going to cause "anti-American" sentiment in Al-Qaeda. Where the hell has this idiot been the last five years? This moron is sick, sick, sick.

[yobid]

Remember, there will be no good news ever for two more years. Everything is bad. It's Bush's fault. It's the people who voted for hims fault.

If this was Clinton's war, he'd be tooting his sax down the streets of Baghdad with lefties preceding him with a shower of rose petals.

I hope they keep it up. I think it energizes the true conservative base to do all we can to keep these traitors out of power in the country.

I know it fires me up.

[MinuteGal]

The network producers who immediately pulled this vilest of the vile onto their programs this morning to shove down our throats are equally as mentally ill.

Let's not give them a pass on this one.

Leni

[weegee]

I think he was consumed with American hatred before the death of his son.

[Ramius]

If it is any consolation... IIRC he was a pinko burnout nutbag even *before* Nick was killed.

[Gay State Conservative]

Just saw him on the tube and checked out his website.He's a worthless Maoist,pure and simple.There are thousands just like him walking the streets of Berkeley,Cambridge and other Peoples' Republics.

[ConservativeChris]

"Mr Berg as a non combatant and a contractor could have opted for a safer job. He put himself in harms way by taking a job in Iraq. He threw the dice and he lost."

I agree, I bet dad was happy about the $5000 a week he was getting.

[Two-Bits]

Considering his son was over there working for Michael Moore. You would think his anger would be directed at MM but again when it comes to liberals, their ideology holds more importance than their off-springs........

[goldstategop]

Michael Berg is a degenerate pervert. I have nothing good to say about him. All I can say is I take immense satisfaction in knowing the United States military has carried out God's judgment on someone responsible for the murder of thousands of innocents, including Berg's son.

(Denny Crane: "Every one should carry a gun strapped to their waist. We need more - not less guns.")

[acsrp38]

ED asked him that on F&F this morning -- he just continued with his rant.

[veronica]

Bush Derangement Syndrome. I pity him.

[weegee]

Quotes of Ann's "rude hate speech" are run in the media, not the rotten quotes of the Jersey Girls. Selective reporting at its finest. The media didn't report Ann's response to Hillary either.

[finnman69]

Get Zarkman and Michael Berg a T-shirt!

[cvq3842]

Yes. I homestly would not have chosen the words Ann did, but her underlying point is more than valid.

[cvq3842]

I know what you mean.

[Binghamton_native]

I think this is precisely what Ann Coulter was getting at in her latest book. Rather than his being demented by grief over the loss of his son causing him to say the things he says, I think we see a man who was already a commited leftist before his son was killed exploiting that death to make his political points.

[cvq3842]

It's sad that her actions make this cartoon all too apprropriate.

She got in the kitchen. She has to take the heat like everyone else.

[DCPatriot]

"I have no sense of relief, just sadness that another human being had to die."

With all due respect Mr. Berg, you are full of sh*t.

[BamaAndy]

Berg--I have no sense of relief some media outlets actually want you to speak about anything, you irrelevent boob, 'useful' idiot.

[ariamne]

The nut didn't fall far from the tree.

Really? From what I've read, Nick Berg supported the war in Iraq and was nothing like his father.

[Polybius]

It's like blaming FDR for sons killed by the Nazis.

Did somebody just mention a Kennedy?

" 'Harry, what the hell are you doing campaigning for that crippled son-of-a-b-tch that killed my son Joe?' [Joseph P.] Kennedy said, referring to his oldest son, who had died in the war. Kennedy went on, saying Roosevelt had caused the war. Truman, by his later account, stood all he could, then told Kennedy to keep quiet or he would throw him out the window." — "Truman," by David McCullough, Page 328

[RoseofTexas]

Incredible how the mediabastards will do anything within their power to deflate any sort of victory our troops and the American folk have over this evil mad man's death...FREAKIN INCREDIBLE!! GOD ALMIGHTY HOW I loathe the liberal media...help us rid ourselves of them in our lifetime Lord!