I can't figured out how, if the family was told of Nick's death and decapitation by Monday, they were out on the lawn Tuesday gabbing with the reporters preying there ... then, only on hearing it had been videotaped and put on the web, did the father collapse in grief?
Also can't figure out how someone who wants no media manages to go out and talk to them about Bush's guilt, while absolving the terrorists who butchered his son.
Nor can I fathom how Mike Berg seems to think it was the Bush Administration's responsibility to be in loco parentis for Nick in Iraq when he, the biological father, seemed to hold now sway over his son's going to Iraq in the first place.
Grief alone does not explain any of this ... it sounds as if his hatred for Bush surpasses his sorrow at the loss of his son, and he is venting his anger not only in the wrong direction towards Bush, but well away from himself for his own failings as a father. Maybe it's his only way to cope, but none of it makes a lot of sense.
"I can't figured out how, if the family was told of Nick's death and decapitation by Monday, they were out on the lawn Tuesday gabbing with the reporters preying there ... then, only on hearing it had been videotaped and put on the web, did the father collapse in grief?...."
Same here. It seemed contrived. If my son were buthered, I wouldn't be flipping out in front of a tv crew on my front lawn. Especially if I knew it for a few days.
I would be in my home, flipping out privately.
I can't figured out how, if the family was told of Nick's death and decapitation by Monday, they were out on the lawn Tuesday gabbing with the reporters preying there ... then, only on hearing it had been videotaped and put on the web, did the father collapse in grief?
I think Mr. Berg collapsed in grief because he realized America would see the videotape.
American citizens would be outraged by the wanton brutality Nick suffered.
American citizens would once again be resolved to support President Bush in the war on terror.
Mr. Berg's anti-American and anti-Bush goals would face an enormous setback.