Nick Berg owned a business in suburban Philadelphia. His dad, his brother and his sister live in the Philadelphia area. He was a contractor who went to Iraq to help out in the rebuilding of the infrastructure of that war-torn nation.Posted on 05/11/2004 12:55:28 PM PDT by mhking
Nick Berg owned a business in suburban Philadelphia. His dad, his brother and his sister live in the Philadelphia area. He was a contractor who went to Iraq to help out in the rebuilding of the infrastructure of that war-torn nation.
Nick Berg's face was seen today on a web-site known to belong to Al Qaeda. Berg was sitting in front of a group of masked thugs, who forced him to give his name, then promptly decapitated him.
And we're stuck listening to whining and crying about Iraqis being humiliated.
Perky Katie Couric keeps trying to tell us how evil the Bush Administration is every morning; Snotty Peter Jennings makes sure you know the same thing as you eat dinner each evening.
Nancy Pelosi screeches the same thing with all the presence of a mynah bird. John "Ketchup Boy" Kerry fusses about it -- at least between sessions of bitching about how pundits, commentators and other politicians need to leave his wife alone (when I hear Ketchup Boy try to play tough, I keep seeing Robert Conrad from the old Eveready commercials -- you remember the ones, with the battery on his shoulder, daring you to knock it off).
But none of them will reserve the same level or intensity of anger for Nick Berg's life.
Oh, we'll hear Al Franken and Whoopi Goldberg make light of Berg's death all over the place; we'll see postings from Democratic Underground and retardedly scrawled cartoons from Ted Rall insist that Berg deserved what he got because he worked for "eeeeevil" Halliburton or some other defense contracting firm -- after all, if he's associated with the defense industry in any way, shape or form, he's gotta be evil too, right?
My God, a man's life was taken by barbaric animals! Animals who have no concept of the meaning of the words "honor" or "integrity." No idea what "freedom" really means. "Truth" and "justice" are just some misbegotten notion to them.
And we're left with people like Jesse Jackson insisting that since a few prisoners in custody were harassed by their jailers that we are all of a sudden worse than the cretins who took Nick Berg's life.
Hand-wringers like Tom Daschle will show up on the Sunday morning talking head shows to try to tell us that we deserve anything we get, because we, as a nation, didn't do what the United Nations wanted us to do; because we didn't do what the Democrats on the Hill and across the nation wanted us to do.
What do you say to Nick Berg's family? Huh?
Oh, I know -- you'll want to lay the blame for his death at President Bush's feet.
Never one to place blame where it truly lies.
President Bush didn't stand over Nick Berg with a mask on. Donald Rumsfeld didn't raise a large knife over Berg's head and cut it off -- mind you, yelling "Allah Akbar" in the process. The Republican Party didn't plaster this on their web site, claiming that this fate awaited all other Americans.
But the liberals in this nation are going to place the blame squarely at the feet of those of us on the conservative side of the fence. "If we hadn't gone to war in the first place, none of this would have happened," is what they'll say.
If we hadn't gone to war, would Washington or New York or Los Angeles be a smoking crater right now? Huh?
A new CNN survey touted on the news this morning, indicates that more than 50% of Americans believe that the Iraqi war was not "worth it." How many more Americans' deaths will it take before it becomes worth it?
To hear John Kerry tell it, we would do better to pick up our toys and go home; a veritable modern-day Monroe Doctrine, if you will. Are you ready to wall off America from the rest of the world? Are you ready for the bad guys to come knocking on your door?
After all, the city council in Hamtrammack, MI has already given the OK for the Islamic Call to Prayer to be pronounced on loudspeakers in that sleepy little Detroit suburb. How much longer will it be before the city council in Hamtrammack "encourages" people to go to the mosque on a daily basis?
Bill Cosby unwittingly came up with the best analogy to this in his classic routine, Lights Out: "It's in your home state...[bump-bump, bump-bump]...It's outside your front door...[bump-bump, bump-bump]...and it's going to eat you up!"
You want to stop it now? Or wait until it's "outside your front door?" [bump-bump, bump-bump]
"We want them to exercise as much sovereignty as they are capable of exercising," says Secretary of State Colin Powell.
That's the only Powell quote they reference in that article.
What's your game?
As far as Brahimi is concerned, there is plenty of relevant info on his background and probable motives available on this site as you can possibly digest in one sitting. What are you implying?
AP-Berg's father, Michael Berg, blames the U-S government for creating circumstances that led to his son's death. In addition to the war itself, which Michael Berg opposes, he contends that the U-S military held his son illegally from March 24th to April Sixth. He says if his son hadn't been detained for so long, he might have been able to leave the country before the violence worsened.
Just damn.
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Allah demands blood sacrifice.Islamofascist; Radical Islam is an insane death cult, and "moderate" Islam is its Trojan Horse in the West.
That's a good question. In WWII, we took a country (Japan) with no history of democracy at all and we gave them one. But this happened only after we had almost totally destroyed the country. We forced them to surrender unconditionally. Therefore we could pretty much do what we wanted.
In Iraq we didn't come close to this. We left most of Iraq's infrastructure (what there was of it anyway) intact. We did not kill a huge number of people.
It may still be possible to make a democratic Iraq, but we will be there a long time. I seriously doubt that anything will change by June 30th.
The "gets a small percentage" lost me. I loved the rest of your post however.
The level of sovereignty that the Iraqi interim government will have?
The July turnover is just another step on the long road to representative government for them. Did you seriously expect a full-fledged democratic system to materialize like a McDonalds Happy Meal or something?
The plan seems to be that the Iraqis start to prepare themselves for a general election while the US continues to train the Iraqi security forces to take control of their country. They still need to complete a country wide census. A national election takes logistical planning and preperation to ensure that it's a legitimate exercise of the popular will. These things take time to accomplish. If we don't safeguard and help control the process then you can rest assured that anarchy will reign. We're in this for the long haul.
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