[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.

[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!

[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!!!!!!!!

[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?"

[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.

[rintense]

It's not the same America I grew up in.

That's right. YOUR son grew up in a time where he understood a cause greater than himself. Clearly, you as his father, didn't teach him that. He learned that on his own. Your son was a better man than you, and instead of honoring his life, you disparage his death with your political garbage.

You make me just as sick as the butchers who killed your son, Mr. Berg.

[tracer]

"Berg Died for Bush, Rumsfeld 'Sins' - Father"

Oh, goodie. Another national holiday in the making.

The elder Berg, although obviously and understandably grieving, should someday should look at the blood on his own liberal hands.....

[Joe Hadenuf]

Did someone say these folks are Jewish?

[Jimmy Valentine]

Shades of Rachel Corrie.

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

This guy has raised "dumbass" to a new level.

Even a dumb effing mule will get the message if you smack him in the head with a 2x4.

They want to kill infidels, you jackass moron. Me, you, your son, your daughter, your wife, your mother, your neighbors. Everybody who is not a fanatical muslim, you stupid stupid stupid man.

[Toespi]

From the few reports I have heard, it sounds like Berg's father is an anti-American zealot. It sounds quite likely that Nick Berg had a political difference with his father and proved his point by going to Iraq. As a typical liberal would do, he is looking for something or someone to cast the blame upon. I thought something was definitely up when the father said, "we want to put this behind us."

[danneskjold]

I can appreciate the fact that the man is grieving, but his comments stem from a deep hatred for George Bush, which I'm sure he felt long before last Saturday.

[Dolphy]

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

What does this mean? The more I read about this the odder it becomes. Nothing will change my feelings about Berg's fate but between his father's remarks and his own careless wandering through Iraq, one can't help but scratch their heads.

[Schnucki]

The Left must be loving this.

On the one hand, they consider Berg to evil and deserving of death (since he was there to make money).

On the other hand, they love the fact that Berg's parents are now slinging mud at Bush and Rumsfeld.

[beaversmom]

Michael Berg also said his son probably would have felt positive even about his executioners until the last minute.

Didn't know Nick Berg, but sometimes you can look at people and tell they've got a good heart. Too bad his father is full of hate. I'm sure that didn't just come about when his son died either.