Parents blame Bush for son's execution

financial times ^ | Published: May 12 2004 5:00 | Joshua Chaffin

[Bringbackthedraft]

Attention liberal media "May the feeding frenzy begin".

[arasina]

Thanks for that reminder. I needed that.

[danamco]

We named Rumsfeld as the responsible person, and I still hold him responsible," Mr Berg said.
Well, that didn't take long.


Well, Rush predicted this in today's broadcast!?! "Rush is right!"

[jonrick46]

These poor usefull idiots with their minds stuffed with socialism to the hilt. They will blame their parents. They will blame something in their repressed memory. They will blame it on green eggs and ham. They will blame their teacher. They will blame Rumsfeld. They will blame Bush. They never will take any responsibility for the consequences of their own behavior. They will get out the lawyers and the lawsuits. They will call their pandering politician. They will have their orgy of victim-hood all over the press. They will have a great big hissyfit. They will cry for Mommy Government to come and wipe away their tears with some nice green hankies.

[river rat]

It is not clear if Mr.Berg was freelancing or in Iraq at the request of the coalition...

If freelancing, and not under the control or protection of any coalition entity --- Mr. Berg was a fool, and paid with his life..

Folks have to realize that a war zone is unhealthy..
It is not simply a bad neighborhood...

This poor guy's parents sound like red diaper doper babies....and acknowledge no responsibility on their son's part for his death......

It seems a common refrain.... It's either Bush did it, or the Jews did it...the freaking Arab lunatics are BLAMELESS..

Folks have gone nuts....Public schools have destroyed at least a full generations of this country's "adults"...
Too many are incapable of rational thought or behavior.

Semper Fi

[patriciamary]

Sorry for being so cruel,but it's our country and it's citizens must step up and stand up for ourselves. We have to defend our country ,support our troops,our president and our future generations

[patriciamary]

Sorry for being so cruel,but it's our country and it's citizens must step up and stand up for ourselves. We have to defend our country ,support our troops,our president and our future generations

[kcvl]

Tue, May. 11, 2004


Pennsylvania community shocked by Nick Berg's death

BY SANDY BAUERS

Knight Ridder Newspapers


WEST CHESTER, Pa. - (KRT) - If Nick Berg had a tragic flaw, his father thinks he knows what it was.

"He believed in people," Michael Berg said Tuesday, shortly after learning that his son had been beheaded in Iraq. "He wanted to help people."

Whatever came up, "he thought he could handle it," Michael said. "That was both the good - and the demise - of him. He didn't believe that people would do things."

Those who knew Nick Berg, 26, remembered him as a complex man - funny, outgoing, dramatic, compassionate, inquisitive, inventive and extremely bright. Above all, they remembered him as a humanitarian who wanted to make the world better.

He played the tuba in high school and traveled to Third World countries with only a small backpack, taking only barest essentials because he felt material things got in the way.

Berg felt comfortable with strangers, his family said.

"I think part of what got him into trouble was that he wasn't afraid to be in with groups that most Americans won't be with," said his mother, Suzanne. "And I don't think he understood the danger of ... traveling with non-Americans. That's probably what killed him. He was probably in a group of non-Americans and stood out like a sore thumb."


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http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centredaily/news/8643309.htm

[RightthinkinAmerican]

In Iraq, no job there, arrested by US. I smell a sympathizer.

[tricky_k_1972]

Please, please read my statments that I have posted before on this page. I think alot of you have the wrong impression. Posts # 36 and # 12. Than You.

[cardinal4]

Regardless. I feel bad for his family. Horrific to find out that his death was on some cheap Islamonut website.

Agreed.

[mathurine]

I guess Rummie is the universal master of the universe and he works through surrogates to behead unemployed contractors and put panties on the heads of Iraqi prisoners. And so forth and so on. He ought to resign and leave the the simpleminded to wonder, after he's gone. why the world is not a better place. It won't ever be as long as the fact that the problem is Islam. They are the terrorists. Why can't newspapers and TV see that?

[RightthinkinAmerican]

Not an accusation, I apologize. Something just doesn't smell right.

[Lijahsbubbe]

White House spokesman Scott McClellan said those responsible had "no regard for the lives of innocent men, women and children".

Wow, that's some pretty tough talk there.....

[Samizdat]

I have one thing to say about the beheading. Civilian opportunists should not be in a war zone, it could be hazardous to ones health.

Exactly.

[RightthinkinAmerican]

I feel sorry for his death, but let my anger get the best of me. Just what these idiots who inflame this stuff are trying to do. Anyway, I bet there will be more to come on this.

[blam]

"I'm starting to think there's more to Nick Berg's story than meets the eye. Why was he arrested in the first place?"

My impression too.

[kcvl]

Gathered in their split-level house, Berg's family talked of him as a science whiz, a sweet, unselfish kid who carried a Jewish prayer shawl, though they don't believe his religion played a role in his death.

He'd be embarrassed by "us saying all this sweet stuff," his sister, Sara, 31, said. "He had this tough-guy attitude."

Neither his family nor his friends wanted Berg to go to Iraq. They were frightened for him.

But Berg's mind was made up, "and he's pretty adamant when he wants to do something," said Doug Strickland, a childhood friend. Berg had planned to be home in time to be a groomsman in Strickland's April wedding.

Michael Berg said his son "was excited being" in Iraq. "He thought he was finally going to become part of this rebuilding process," he said.

Michael said his son e-mailed several times a day. In his first e-mail home, Berg "apologized profusely for everything he put us through. That's what he was thinking of, all that he put us through."

[cardinal4]

True. They were part of a protest trying to shake down the manufacturer of the bulldozer. Hideous family.

What? Did I miss something?