[NotchJohnson]

mr. Berg can say whatever he wants in my opinion if he is right or wrong.

[Bikers4Bush]

He can say what he wants but it just makes him look like an idiot and his lies trivialize the death of his son.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

mr. Berg can say whatever he wants in my opinion if he is right or wrong.

And so can everybody else.

[Dr Snide]

freedom of speech goes both ways. He can say what he wants and everyone else can respond how they want. Funny how that tends to be so complicated for so many

[plain talk]

Mr. Berg is an idiot and a fool. His son was too. Berg should be lashing out at the real enemy - the islamic terrorists.

[TexasCajun]

The father's liberal brainwashing of his son is more accurately the cause of his Son's death than the President or Sec. of Defense.

Oh, wait! What about those hooded islamic practitioners last seen with the son? Could they have been the cause?

[cripplecreek]

Personally I'm starting to wonder if the senior Berg didn't have a round about part in his sons death.

[Hostage]

The first time I heard over the radio while driving about the beheading death was caused by the "sins" of Bush and Cheney or Rumsfield, I hadn't caught that is was made by Berg's father. So naturally I assumed it was stated by the terrorists.

In other words Berg's father came across just as if he was broadcasting on behalf of the terrorists.

When later I realized it was Berg's father that had said it, it blew me away.

Then Rummy flew into Baghdad and stated to roaring applause that he "had stopped reading the newspapers". Instead he had been reading about the 'Civil War' and all the hororible things said by persons on both sides against each other not within and without.

I would say to Berg's father that he is furthering the cause of another Civil War here in America.

[Paul Ross]

Michael Berg is and was a member of ANSWER. Too bad this guy wasn't in Baghdad instead of his son.

[Exeter]

First Paul Wellstone's funeral is turned into a partisan rally so grotesque that even their governor walked out in disgust. Now Michael Berg uses the body of his son to take a jab at the present administration. Do these people really care for the lives of their relatives, or do they just see them as political pawns to be used one last time to forward their own personal agenda before casting them aside?

[JoJo Gunn]

He aligned himself with A.N.S.W.E.R., a known group at the very forefront of terrorist sympathizers and enablers.

As with the Corries, he's a suicide in progress.

[MagnoliaB]

Can you imagine the state of denial Mr. Berg must be in right now? If he is a member of ANSWER he's not just your typical dem who hates Bush but a radical, idealist, blame America first, liberal who hates Bush. He has spent probably his adult lifetime, possibly starting in college, gathering evidence and blame for all the ill will in the world being the fault of America. He has probably spent his lifetime thinking "these people just hate us because our government is evil" but "they can see the goodness in those of us that see our own government as evil" and "they would never hurt us because we are a peace child we know the government just has it all wrong". He probably spoon fed this crap to his kid so long, the kid was just probably naive.
He may be blaming Bush right now but I can't help but think that the reality will set in.

[antaresequity]

If Nick Berg was killed in Israel by a suicide bomber, Nick's father would blame the Bush Administration as well because our support for Israel had 'incited the hatred that led to his death'.

[Caipirabob]

Mr. Berg's liberal ideaology was retro-active Darwinism in the cruelest fashion possible. It's like people who are raised to think real bears will behave the same as the fluffy doll that's sitting on their bed.

But of course in Mr. Berg's eyes it was Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld under the masks of the ghouls that sawed off the head of his son with a dull knife as he screamed for an eternity as he died.

May God have mercy on the soul of Nick Berg, whatever he was doing there.

[swampfox98]

Berg is your typical liberal left-wing Democrat. God help any nation that has people like this man as a citizen. The blindness of people like Berg is the reason we're in this mess. Bet he voted for Clinton and loves Kerry.

[jmstein7]

BUMP!

[AmericanInTokyo]

They could have titled the article a little better, though.

[JoeSixPack1]

Do these Berg Sr. type apologists believe that they are immuned to the dangers of a war zone because of the side they choose? How completely brainwashed can one be?

Berg Jr. it seems, paraded around Iraq looking for work, ignored advice from our military to leave and eventually got caught up in a real live war.

[Republican Red]

I have come to think that Nick Berg was with ANSWER too and the kidnapping was staged. Unfortunately for Nick Berg his "best friends" had other plans.

If this is true then Michael Berg will have to live with this the rest of his life. IMO, that is worse than the fate of his son. I couldn't imagine any greater punishment.

[BluH2o]

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.

My sentiment exactly ... but it will take very little more from this guy before I "start thinking otherwise" ... very little more.

[Protagoras]

I agree. He is not out of line. He may be wrong, he may be a moron, he may be mentally ill with grief or any other number of things. But this is still America and he isn't out of line. It's the difference between a free society and an un-free one.