Berg's father blames Bush

Daily Local News ^ | 05/14/2004 | R. JONATHAN TULEYA

[tkathy]

If America is so awful, Berg should move to one of the thuggocracies that he so idolizes.

(None of the victimologists on the left would be caught dead in one of these countries.)

[Caipirabob]

"Nicholas Berg died for the sins of George Bush and Donald Rumsfeld," Michael Berg said. "The al-Qaida people are probably just as bad as they are, but this administration did this."

I wonder if it will surprise him when he learns that the government is not involved in an active policy of shipping misguided civilians into a war zone.

Of course it's the government's fault he went to Iraq.

While I am horrified at what happened to this man, I firmly believe the father has trivialized his death in favor of a sick political agenda. It's tragic, and also horrific in a reptilian fashion that he should use the death of his very own son to forward a leftist agenda.

His son died at the hands of terrorist ghouls and now the body will be fed upon by leftist ghouls. I am altogether sickened and will no longer pay any attention to this issue other than to recognize the utter and complete depravity of the enemy, both foreign and domestic.

[BillyCrockett]

"The al-Qaida people are probably just as bad..."

There it is in a nutshell... the libs feel the US military & government should be held at no higher level than Al Kayda.

[Jon Alvarez]

typical ANSWER supporter...blame Bush, not the actual perps who killed his kid. It wasn't their fault, right, it's society's fault. Funny how libs like this guy don't place responsibility with criminals, etc., we're too harsh, etc. but are crying foul and want the perps punished in Abu Gharib scandal.

It's ok to kill babies
It's bad to kill killers
Punish those mean old soldiers
and blame everything on Bush, including global warming...

nuts, all of them.

[FilthyHands]

Sorry about the son. But for this SOB to politicize his own childs death for his own leftist agenda is absolutely disgusting. So my sympathy for him has dried up.

[TomGuy]

New wrinkle, per FoxNews. Daddy Berg is now wanting to know whether al-Qaeda offered to trade Nick for al-Qaeda prisoners.

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Sorry, Daddy Berg, but that would not be the responsibility of the US military. Your son was in Iraq at his own volition. Yes, you are looking for someone to blame. Why not direct your anger at those who actually killed your son?

[miss marmelstein]

I don't know that there is any evidence. I'm beginning to think Nick Berg was not who his friends say he was...

[4everontheRight]

Rush said the day after that viewing the video of Berg's murder that it compelled him to give Berg's family a pass on whatever they say. He said the film was so gruesome that whoever the family felt was to blame, let them talk.

Ok..I agreed with this then but now this father is starting to get on my nerves. His son was over there on his own...not through the military, he was there looking for work to make money (and perhaps help). Bush did not ask his son to go nor did he send his son over there. The responsibility for his being there was his own and his murder was the responsibility of the terrorist!

Michael Berg said his son supported the war but that he did not. Once the media heard this, they have stayed on that man like white on rice. They know what they will hear and the media wants those sound bites!!! Michael Berg should have enough respect for his son's decision to go over there to shut up

[Marauder]

Ideology trumps grief sometimes.

So, apparently, does ambition and stupidity.

[Marauder]

I think it might be a lucrative venture.

If you can convince them that buying the bridge would assure Bush's defeat in November, you'd be an overnight millionaire.

[samtheman]

Berg went back to Iraq without a job. He was offered a flight home by the State Department.

[Marauder]

recognize the utter and complete depravity of the enemy, both foreign and domestic.

Profound words, and something all conservatives had best get our heads wrapped around and start dealing with it. The liberal faction in this country is dangerous and, in spite of their vehement protests to the contrary, thoroughly anti-American.

[Moose4]

This guy probably can't handle the fact that his son, by starting up his tower-repair business and going to Iraq to help out, showed more moxie, spirit, and balls than he ever had.

Disgraceful. Dancing on his own son's still-empty grave for political advantage.

}:-)4

[BraveMan]

I cannot say with any certainty my own mind wouldn't tied up in knots like this if I were in the elder Berg's circumstances. I would hope God gave me the strength to avoid a fall in reason like this.

I'm with Rush on this one. I have to give him a pass. If it provides him some measure of comfort to label me a worthless neo-con and pin the blame for his son's death on the likes of me and my President, so be it. My shoulders are big enough; he can take as long as he wants.

The left has found a new martyr; ironically it is not Nick Berg, it is Nick Berg's father. Though he breathes and speaks, his mind and soul are dead.

The real losers in all this are the parents and loved ones of the soldiers lost in combat, who choose to suffer their losses in quiet grace and dignity. This spectacle has to be wearing on them.

[marvlus]

"I would like to ask George Bush a question. I would like to ask him if it is true that al-Qaida offered to trade my son’s life for the life of another person," Berg said. "And if that is true. I need that information ... and I think the rest of the people of the United States of America need to know what the fate of their sons and daughters might be in the hands of the Bush administration," he said.

Here is an example of al-qauida winning the hearts and minds of a moron through an act of terrorism.

[JimSEA]

"This is an administration that allows something that they arrogantly called the Patriot Act to strip away America, to make America not the America that I grew up in"

I am assuming that Mr. Berg is roughly my age (pushing 60). Thus, he grew up in an era before the Civil Rights Act of 1964, before Roe v. Wade, before Miranda v. AZ, before Escobedo v. Ill., during the Army/McCarthy hearings, and on down a long list of changes (some inprovements on individual rights, others not). In other words, he is spewing retoric any thoughtful liberal (if one exists) would immediatly reject as absurd. But then, we live in the age of the sound bite, not reason.

[Kenton]

Mr. Berg's shocking outbursts will rally the leftwing scum that supports ANSWER, and they will not vote for Bush. Not that they would have been anyway.

It's always unfortunate when some leftwinger decides to dance on the dead in order to spew their venom, but in the minds of most of America, his rantings will help their cause about as much as the Paul Wellstone Memorial Bash-Bush Rally helped the Democrats in the last election cycle.

[smiley]

Using the death of his son to promote his political agenda....vulgar and shameful.

[traumer]

BUSH'S FAULT !!!

[mwl1]

I saw the father spew this venom this morning on Good Morning America.

It's insane -- treasonous in my view -- to even begin to compare any president of the united states with a terrorist. It's sick, hate speech from the left.