Posted on 05/14/2004 12:07:59 PM PDT by NotchJohnson
There is just no imaginable way to understand the grief of Michael Berg. His 26-year-old son was brutally murdered -- his head sawed off -- by Islamic monsters, and the whole thing was videotaped and not appears on the internet for all the world to see. Michael Berg is and was against the war in Iraq, and, by all accounts, has never been a fan of George Bush. Nick Berg, on the other hand, was a supporter of George Bush and the war effort.
From the very time Nick Berg's body was found on a roadside in Iraq, Michael Berg has been making statements blaming the Bush administration for his son's fate. Now Michael Berg is telling the world that his son "died for the sins of George Bush and Donald Rumsfeld."
Sins? Does Michael Berg mean the sin of liberating over 10 million Iraqis from the brutality of Saddam Hussein? Saddam had rape rooms. In these rooms people weren't stripped naked and arranged in piles. They were raped, they were electrocuted, and they were murdered .. and no small number of them suffered deaths unlike that suffered by Nick Berg. Or maybe Michael Berg is talking about the sin of making sure that Saddam would never again use biological or chemical weapons against his own people, Iranians or anyone else, and that he would never succeed in his long-term goal of developing nuclear weapons. Perhaps Berg is referring to the sin of making sure that Saddam is never again capable of launching missiles into civilian areas Tel Aviv.
Quite a sinful guy, this George Bush. He stepped in where much of the rest of the world would not. He stepped in where the much-vaunted United Nations would not. He removed one of history's bloodiest dictators from power, and quite possibly saved the lives of untold thousands of people -- maybe tens of thousands of Americans or Israelis -- who were destined to become the victims of a terrorist attack with weapons too horrible to imagine; weapons supplied by Saddam Hussein.
After a decade of inaction by the United Nations ... which actually par for the course for the United Nations ... and in the face of the reluctance of our European "allies" to do anything (after all, they were getting big bucks from Saddam), George Bush acted. After 9/11 he was determined that no rogue nation, no nation that cooperated with terrorists, was going to be permitted to produce chemical, biological or nuclear weapons that could make their way into the hands of Islamic Jihadists. A bold policy? You bet. And thank God we had a president who was strong enough to take that stand.
Look ... there were only two ways to go here. Ignore Saddam, and let him continue with whatever his plans were. Maybe he would behave. But, again, maybe not. We would be taking that chance. We would be betting the lives of tens of thousands of Americans on the idea that Saddam wasn't going to proceed with his weapons plans, and wasn't going to continue his flirtation and cooperation with terrorists. Or .. the second choice .. we could remove the potential threat by removing Saddam from power. The world community gave him every opportunity to cooperate -- to play nice. He refused. Now he's gone. It took guts. Bush had guts.
As for Michael Berg. The last time I checked, Mr. Berg, the evidence was that your son traveled to Iraq on his one ... looking for work. He wasn't drafted. He wasn't conscripted. He wasn't forced. He made the decision, and unfortunately paid with his life. There are Islamic terrorists throughout the world, Mr. Berg. Your son could have gone to the Philippines instead of Iraq. Islamic terrorists have decapitated Americans there, too. Would you have also blamed that on Bush and Rumsfeld?
Wouldn't it be a travesty if Michael Berg were using the death of his son as an excuse to assign blame to a president he hasn't liked from the beginning? For now, we'll just chalk it up to grief. A few more words out of Michael Berg and we're going to start thinking otherwise.
Nick Berg's father, Mathew Berg, deserves to be condemned as having NIck's blood, and that of every other dead American in Iraq, on his hands.
Instead of fighting the subhumans who murdered Nick and the other Americans, plus thousands of Iraquis, he's colaborated with and is collaborating with the murderers. He's an enthusiastic, active member of International A.N.S.W.E.R. ("IA"), a communist organization which actively supports America's enemies and the enemies of freedom throughout the world.
Matthew Berg signed IA's "Call to Action" of March 20, 2004 to "End colonial occupation from Iraq to Palestine." Even worse, as of May 11, 2004, IA had the following statement on its website:
"Having achieved their victory, however, the occupiers [of Iraq] now confront a people who have a long and proud history of resistance. The anti-war movement here and around the world must give its unconditional support to the Iraqui anit-colonial resistance."
"Unconditional support" means support no matter what. Matthew Berg unconditionally supported the subhumans when they hacked Nick's head off with a dull knife.
"That American young men and women are willing to give their lives to free the Iraqi's and the Afghanistan people from such subhuman people is a credit to our country and I thank them from the bottom of my heart."
bttt! well stated. I feel the same.
It would seem Berg Jr. placed too much faith in the crap spewed by the leftists. He definately drank the koolaid.
I agree that Nick Berg, as the old saying goes, "paid his monies and he took his chances".
As far as his father? I know what it's like to get the phone call from Hell that your son is dead, yet with Michael Berg I can't connect, I can't empathize, for the simple fact he sold his soul to our Enemies.
I have seen more than enough of the history of the Nazis, and have never understood how one single solitary Jew on this planet could ever be a Leftist.
You must not have gotten the memo; all bad people throughout history, have been right-wing nuts.
If you ever figure it out, let me know. I am jewish and I despair at supposedly intelligent people spewing such a hatred toward all things republican and most things American.
What is it with American Jews not seeing the light?
I strongly disagree with you. While this man is grieving, as a member of ANSWER his views obviously existed before this happened, and our troops are in harms way. Rumor has it he is going to travel around with Kerry .
Gee there protocrapus, you're personal e-mails are even more droll then your active posts. Save them for someone who might be impressed...I'm sure not.
Not just droll...downright stupid. But hey, I always enjoy getting some stupid mail along with normal freep mail.
Now there's a real zinger freep mail that would terrorize anyone.
I guess you turned chicken when I sent you the real email that you said u would post huh?
Dream on there protocrapas...the other two were far too droll to post.
Ahh another FR tough guy.
Yep, in America, people are free to be STOOPID, and we are free to call them on it when they are.
You know...kind of like your normals posts.
How's it going Tex. It was a beautiful day here today.
I'm ascared to death.
I thought I was also...turned out to be the burrito.
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