Berg Died for Bush, Rumsfeld 'Sins' - Father

Reuters ^ | Thu, May 13, 2004 | Reuters

[TSgt]

PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - The father of Nick Berg, the Pennsylvania contractor beheaded in Iraq (news - web sites), on Thursday directly blamed President Bush (news - web sites) and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld for his son's death.

"My son died for the sins of George Bush and Donald Rumsfeld. This administration did this," Berg said in the interview with radio station KYW-AM.

In the radio interview from outside his home in West Chester, Pennsylvania, a seething Michael Berg also said his son probably would have felt positive even about his executioners until the last minute.

"I am sure that he only saw the good in his captors until the last second of his life," Berg said.

Then, referring to his son's executioners, he said: "They did not know what they were doing. They killed their best friend."

Two days after the publication of a video showing the execution of his son by five masked men, Berg attacked Bush administration for its invasion of Iraq and its sponsorship of the Patriot Act, which gave increased powers of surveillance to the federal government.

Berg described the Patriot Act as a "coup d'etat." He added: "It's not the same America I grew up in."

[TSgt]

Then, referring to his son's executioners, he said: "They did not know what they were doing. They killed their best friend."

Nothing like politicizing your son's death.

His son was there on his own accord. Bush had nothing to do with it.

Savage is right, liberalism is a mental illness.

[cyborg]

ping

[Fenris6]

I'm hearing that Berg's father is active in ANSWER? True?

[r9etb]

This looks especially bad when you consider that the FBI warned Berg to leave Iraq, and now we learn that the US even offered to fly him out. He refused, and then was murdered.

What else would they have the gov't do?

[Phantom Lord]

"I am sure that he only saw the good in his captors until the last second of his life," Berg said.

Then, referring to his son's executioners, he said: "They did not know what they were doing. They killed their best friend."

So his father is saying his son was a supporter of islamic terrorists, and even an terrorist himself.

May be time to rethink any sorrow people are having for his loss.

[TSgt]

That is my understanding. The link is running around on one of these threads.

[rrrod]

this berg is a maggot!

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Then, referring to his son's executioners, he said: "They did not know what they were doing. They killed their best friend."

Evidently not.

[Lunatic Fringe]

What an asshole... dancing on the corpse of his son to promote his own beliefs! His own son would have disagreed with him!

[Phantom Lord]

True.

[sauropod]

Thank you.

[Saundra Duffy]

This is the sickest thing I have ever read. Michael Berg is NUTS. He exploits his own son's disgusting untimely vicious death to make his own political points. This is UNBELIEVABLE!!!!!!!!

[sauropod]

Yes. He was a speaker at one of their rallies as exposed on another thread.

[princess leah]

Wanna bet Michael Berg gets offered to appear at the DNC in Boston this July? Guess who REALLY politizes everything? the 800 number for the DNC is DIAL-A-VICTIM!

[prion]

It's probably a pretty heavy burden - they filed suit to get him released, and he was released into the arms of his murderers. There's probably some degree to which guilt is driving him crazy.

Assuming the story as we've gotten it is true, of course. It seriously doesn't add up, but I don't know what that means.

[Fenris6]

"They did not know what they were doing. They killed their best friend."

Ahhh I get it...perhaps his son was over there carrying out ANSWER's work. Not to disparage so soon, but was this another episode of "Anti-war Activist Meets Reality?"

[glennaro]

... or perhaps Mr. Berg is insane with grief ...

[LanPB01]

He only saw the good in his captors? At what point? When they tied him up? When they captured him at gunpoint (or knifepoint, or whatever)? What a ridiculous statement.

[TSgt]

That is what these kooks don't understand.

It doesn't matter if he was a terrorist supporter, a peacenik anti-war maggot or a proud patriotic American.

He was an AMERICAN. And that is why they slaughtered him. And they will slaughter all of us if we let them.

[to the core]

Refresh my memory -- what is ANSWER?